As announced in Saturday’s BLOXcast livestream, we’ll be kicking off a worldwide gaming competition known as the ROBLOX Winter Games late this January! The competition will feature events created by some of the top ROBLOX game developers, and be powered by the now-in-development Universes, Teleports, and Data Persistence framework. That means there will be a social hangout leading to the various winter-themed events (each featuring prizes for top competitors) and a global leaderboard with aggregated results.

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This year, October isn’t just the month of Halloween. We’re not just working on an epic game. We’re not just lining up mysterious gift boxes for the next 13 days. We’re not just designing fantastic costume apparel. No, we’re doing all of the above. This is BLOXtober!

We’re kicking things off this afternoon by putting the first Halloween gift box on sale in the catalog. If you purchase it, it’ll remain unopened in your inventory for a few days and eventually open to reveal a mystery item. There will be a total of 13 gift boxes, released one by one over the next 13 days. Each one will have its own look and only be on sale for a few days — it’s up to you to figure out what might be inside and decide whether your guess is worth the investment!

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Virtual BLOXcon was a fantastic event. We had tens of thousands of ROBLOXians from around the world drop in to watch our five-hour live broadcast, view recorded footage from each of our summer BLOXcons, and play contest-winning games with ROBLOX staff. We even saw #BLOXcon become a trending topic on Twitter in multiple countries — that’s what roughly 10,000 tweets will do. We poured a lot of effort into presenting the event, but it would have been nothing without your participation and enthusiasm.

While Virtual BLOXcon may be over, it’s not too late to experience everything it offered. We suggest starting with the recording of the livestream; it features two Q&A sessions, product demos, an awards ceremony, gameplay streaming and more.

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Virtual BLOXcon is now live! To join the fun, don’t delay; go to ROBLOX.com/bloxcon.

The event consists of three “stages.” There’s the Livestream Stage (roughly 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), where we’re streaming gameplay, Q&A sessions, product demos and awards shows from ROBLOX HQ. The World Tour Stage features content we collected from each of our three in-person BLOXcon events this summer. Then there’s the Game Stage, which is home to seven contest-winning games, a couple fan favorites from the last year, and an articulated physics demo! However you decide to participate in Virtual BLOXcon, you can’t go wrong.

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Fresh off our BLOXcon “world tour,” we’re taking our annual fan convention online for the first time with the Virtual BLOXcon! The event takes place this Saturday at ROBLOX.com/bloxcon, starting at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. We’re hard at work putting the finishing touches on our schedule and setup, so we thought today would be a good time to show you a tentative schedule for the day and share a few photos.

Virtual BLOXcon is now just one week away! The online event will give everyone in the ROBLOX community a chance to experience our annual fan conventions via a livestream from ROBLOX HQ, recorded BLOXcon footage, and a lineup of great games. On top of that, ROBLOX staff will be playing games and chatting with you all day, so you could very well get to meet us – virtually, at least.

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As you probably know by now, we’re hosting a Virtual BLOXcon less than one month from today. Roughly 0.1% of ROBLOX’s population could actually attend one of this summer’s in-person BLOXcons, so this online event will give everyone a chance to experience some of the magic. The following is a tentative overview of what the Virtual BLOXcon will offer — including some of your creations.

Live streaming video from ROBLOX HQ. We’ll do live Q&A sessions, give away additional awards, talk about new ROBLOX product development, stream gameplay, and more. Think of it like the Main Stage Presentation we held at each BLOXcon, but a little more laid back and broken into separate segments.

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