Roblox is updating the look of its materials, making textures more lifelike but letting developers stick with the old visuals if they prefer.

The newly announced Roblox avatar updates aim to inject both more customization and more realism into the blocky Lego-like looks that are synonymous with the platform now.

Fortnite is undergoing some changes in the way it presents its user-created content, and they're going to look very familiar to Roblox users.

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.

I'd be lying if I said Roblox's dress-up game Dress to Impress hadn't consumed the last few weeks of my life, and the upcoming Halloween event is bound to force me further down the rabbit hole ...