Online video game company Roblox hopes the virtual characters created by its youthful members can become big hits in the physical toy world. The San Mateo company, which has about 44 million ...

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.

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

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.