Roblox Stock Rises 54% In Its First Day

Adopt Me! by Roblox creator DreamCraft announced a temporary Pet Rock as an April Fools joke and ended up with more players than Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord . Multiple video game development companies kept the April Fools' Day tradition of joke announcements alive this year, from the announcement of a Death Stranding movie to Mortal Kombat 11 's reveal that they were introducing a " family friendly " m


Still, it does have a very loyal fanbase, one which will surely be thrilled at an event like this. It's heartening to see a prominent author like Ernest Cline recognize the video game community like this, especially seeing how much video game culture is represented in his books. Roblox fans should get their book preorders in now; this event is not to be mis


Just like the previous year, the award function can be viewed in-game. The highlight of this year's awards ceremony is undoubtedly the special guest appearance of the band, Royal Blood. However, the developers have a lot of plans in place this time aro

Now Roblox is featuring a brand new tie-in event to coincide with Ernest Cline's new book, Ready Player Two . The Roblox website anticipates that this will be the biggest book tour event in publishing history, a bold claim inspired by a similar event the website hosted to celebrate the release of the Ready Player One film adaptation in 2018. That event drew in a whopping 13 million, and Roblox anticipates that this event will be even bigger. It will take the form of an online treasure hunt, similar to the ones undertaken by the main characters in the books themselves. The event kicks off on December 1st with a live Q&A between Ernest Cline himself and Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki. Keen Roblox fans will want to tune into this event, as it will feature hints that will help them navigate the treasure hunt. Apparently more hints can be found inside Ready Player Two itself, so players are encouraged to read the book in preparation when it launches on November 24th. Players who complete this quest successfully will earn free digital goods themed after the ev

Brookhaven is one of the most-played open-world games in Roblox and the new Easter Egg missions tasks players to find a certain amount of eggs in a certain area in four different difficulty levels. Let's start with the easiest level (thanks Inferno Con


**Roblox has been around for quite a while now, and it's a game loved by people of all ages. Whether you are a fan of muscle-building simulators or Robloxrealm.com want to just adopt a few pets, there is a Roblox game for everyone out there


Roblox creator DreamCraft decided to run an April Fools' Day joke update themselves this year, offering players of Adopt Me! a free temporary pet rock that could be acquired in the game. According to PC Gamer , this anecdote unexpectedly resulted in Adopt Me! having over 680,000 concurrent players. These numbers are almost triple what the current most popular game on Steam, the RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, had on the same day, with that game logging roughly 230,000 concurrent players. Those who decided to obtain their free new pet were humorously treated to a pet rock with the visuals of a toddler’s drawing. Adopt Me! has had over 5.3 billion visits to the game since its creation in 2017, which is no surprise considering Roblox has over 100 million active users . Check out a video of the rock in action below, as shared by the game's official Twitter acco


This is a pretty exciting event for Roblox 's surprisingly extensive fanbase. Cline's clearly excited too, as he has gone on record stating that "Roblox is the closest thing to the Oasis in real life, and this contest is the closest thing to the treasure hunt in my book." This seems a bit generous; in Cline's books the Oasis is a massive VR wonderland where players can go anywhere and do anything that their hearts desire. It's wish fulfillment on the highest level, and it might be the case that such a fantasy is impossible to truly replicate in the real world. Roblox offers players a lot of freedom, but it's got a long way to go before it's on the level of the fictional Oa


For the uninitiated, Roblox is less of a traditional game and more of a creation tool along similar lines as products like RPG Maker , Little Big Planet , and the recently released Super Mario Maker 2 . Using Roblox Studio , players can create, modify, and sell their own unique games, experiences, and items, with the current number of such totaling upwards of 69 million games from over 2 million different developers. Many of the games created in Roblox have gone on to become quite popular, including Jailbreak and Welcome to Bloxburg, and most are geared toward child


One day after Roblox 's stock hit the market, and things are looking up. The Roblox stock was reported to go public a couple of weeks ago, but it finally opened its doors to the public this afternoon. Many had expected the stock to go live as the market opened at 9:30 AM ET or at noon, but it didn't go live until much later in the aftern