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Roblox Corporation. Roblox Corporation ( / ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company is the developer of Roblox, which was released in 2006. As of December 31, 2023, the company employs over 2,400 people. [ 1]
The iOS version of Roblox passed $1 billion of lifetime revenue in November 2019, [111] $1.5 billion in June 2020, [112] and $2 billion in October 2020, [113] making it the iOS app with the second-highest revenue. [10] Several individual games on Roblox have accumulated revenues of over $10 million, [114] while developers as a whole on the ...
An entry in the Pet Simulator series, Pet Simulator X sparked controversy among the Roblox community when the developers, BIG Games, integrated non-fungible tokens into the game, the first ever instance of such on the platform. [76] [non-primary source needed] [77] The game has been played over 5 billion times as of January 2023. [78]
The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, [ 13] and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, [ 14] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in ...
Roblox is a game platform with its own game engine. It uses a modified version of Lua 5.1 called Luau. [27] Rockbox, the open-source digital audio player firmware, supports plugins written in Lua. RPM, software package management system primarily developed for Red Hat Linux, comes with an embedded Lua interpreter. [28]
Vulkan targets high-performance real-time 3D-graphics applications, such as video games and interactive media, and highly parallelized computing. Vulkan is intended to offer higher performance and more efficient CPU and GPU usage compared to the older OpenGL and Direct3D 11 APIs. It does so by providing a considerably lower-level API for the ...
An animal study recently investigated which form of fiber might be most effective. Beta-glucan, a fiber found in cereals and oats, came out on top. A new study using a mouse model of obesity ...
Dead Island is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. [ 6] Released for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the game is centered on the challenge of surviving a zombie-infested open world with an important emphasis on melee combat. The plot focuses on four playable survivors ...