But Roblox is primarily a building game, not a market simulation. The game is physics-based and encourages both building things out of virtual blocks, and using scripting to code how items behave.

One of the most popular games for kids over the past five years has been Roblox, a PC and mobile game from Roblox Corp (NYSE: RBLX). Could a competing metaverse game from one of the most popular ...

Roblox said that it has raised a whopper of a round of $92 million in funding for its social platform for user-generated games.

Roblox said that it has reached a milestone in user-generated games. It now has more than 1.7 million game creators on its Lego-like game platform.

Sony and Lego recently invested billions of dollars in Epic Games, which hopes to develop its own “metaverse” and go toe-to-toe with Roblox.