The company is adding avatar-based, 3D video chat to its virtual world in an effort to expand its audience—and to keep the kids around as they grow older.

Roblox has been around since 2006. It is still thriving as one of the largest metaverses in gaming today. Roblox is a game-building platform where anyone can create or play a giant selection of ...

At 26, Andrea Fletcher has worked for Google, Apple and Roblox but says her career in software engineering really began with her childhood love of logic and math puzzles.

Andrea Fletcher has already worked for Google, Apple and Roblox. Ms. Fletcher, a full-stack software engineer at online game platform Roblox, had a childhood love of logic puzzles involving math.

Avatar faces will be able to move more naturally than ever before. Roblox users will soon be able to give their avatars facial expressions that mimic the player’s own, the platform announced ...