Updating Roblox's iconic, if lo-fi visual style, is a risk, but the company views it as one well worth taking to unlock the platform's real potential as a place where just about anything is possible.

San Francisco-based Loom.ai has founders who worked on visual effects for DreamWorks and Lucasfilm. Their goal was to enable users on social networks to use 3D avatars that could express emotion.

A social network of virtual pocket worlds with a daily user base roughly the size of Spain’s population, Roblox is ubiquitous among kids 13 and under and mostly mystifying to adults, who can’t ...

A social network of virtual pocket worlds with a daily user base roughly the size of Spain’s population, Roblox is ubiquitous among kids 13 and under and mostly mystifying to adults, who can’t ...

Now, Roblox is rolling out an update to make those materials look and act more lifelike, so sand will look more like sand and you can also get a truck’s tires stuck in it. The changes are part of ...