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Users can take advantage of the translation feature in any Roblox experience that has enabled Roblox's in-experience text chat service. The chat window will automatically translate any text into the person's native language without the user having to take any additional actions. The translations happen in real time, with a latency of approximately 100 milliseconds, according to Roblox. This allows users to carry out a conversation with the same flow they regularly would, as seen in the video below. Starting today, you…

For Roblox fans, this year’s Super Bowl is coming to Bikini Bottom.Thanks to a collaboration between the NFL and game developer Gamefam, a number of the company’s popular Roblox games, including the newly released SpongeBob Simulator, will be featuring special Super Bowl material from early February through Super Bowl Sunday. SpongeBob Simulator players will be able to help prepare Bikini Bottom—SpongeBob’s hometown—for the big game, fans of Twilight Daycare will be tasked with training babies for a “Baby Bowl” event, and…

NCT 127 are set to hold a free virtual concert on Roblox, the first such dedicated K-pop event. Announced yesterday (January 17), ‘The NCT 127 Concert Experience’ is billed as a celebration of 127 Day (January 27), a special anniversary for the NCT sub-unit and their fans. The interactive virtual concert experience is, according to SM Entertainment, the very first dedicated K-pop concert within the video game. NCT 127 are set to perform a handful of their most popular singles under the setlist, including ‘Sticker’,…

Roblox is officially completing its rollout of the Creator Hub, a new hub that gives developers more tools and centralizes things like documentation and a developer forum into one place. Making the information easier to find seems like it could be quite helpful for developers, and that has an important aftereffect for Roblox, too: Roblox makes its money by taking a cut of what its developers earn, so it’s incentivized to make things better for the creators on its platform.Creator Hub aggregates five Roblox resources, Nick…

Like me, my eggs were flying economy class, writes Anna Louie Sussman. My dog Stewie and I were in seat 8D, while 12 of my cryopreserved oocytes, four straws of three eggs each, had a window seat further back. They were ensconced in a cryogenic storage flask packed into a metal suitcase next to Paolo, the courier overseeing their passage from a fertility clinic in Bologna, Italy, to the clinic in Madrid, Spain, where I would be undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) in several weeks’ time.The shipping of gametes and…

Roblox, an online game platform on which people can either play games or create them, has 52.2 million users per day. The company’s initial demographic was minors, but in recent years it has become a popular destination for teens and young adults, and over half its users are now over 13. The rich, varied virtual worlds created on the site have been considered a precursor to what we might see and experience in the metaverse, with opportunities for connection with other people and personalized avatars that players can use…

Gone but not forgotten Roblox is one of the most popular video games in the world, but even for those who don’t play the game, a single sound effect has transcended into meme culture to become instantly recognizable: the “oof” death sound. In the wake of some ongoing licensing issues Roblox has had with sound effects, the team behind the game has announced that the infamous “oof” has been removed from the game entirely. They explained in a tweet from the official Roblox Twitter account that they “created a…

Roblox has gotten rid of the iconic “oof” sound your character makes when dying (that even I, as an adult, can find some semblance of joy in). In a thread on Twitter (via Kotaku), Roblox explains it removed the sound “due to a licensing issue” and replaced it with a new noise that, in my opinion, sounds weird as hell. Roblox has had problems with the “oof” sound before. As Kotaku points out, Intellivision founder Tommy Tallarico originally created the noise for a 2000 game called Messiah. Tallarico took issue with the…