In the game, players are able to create their own virtual world , in which they or other members may enter and socialize within the blocks of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. Games on Roblox can be scripted using a sandboxed edition of Lua 5. The company's main source of revenue comes from players buying Robux, the main virtual currency in the game, and from players buying " Builders Club " access, a status which gives virtual benefits to users. Roblox was created by founder and co-founder David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in and officially launched into its beta version, titled "Dynablocks" in It was named after a portmanteau of the words robots and blocks. Roblox is still in the beta stages today.

For nearly 15 years, young gamers have flocked toward the online Roblox gaming platform. The innovative program allows users to essentially build their own video games that others can play. The game has been praised in the past for its parental controls and kid-friendliness. However, new reports suggest it may have a troubling dark side of sex and nudity. Rather than a single game, Roblox is a platform that allows players to create an avatar and explore 3D environments. Game rooms are totally user-generated, meaning players make their own environments for themselves and others to inhabit.

The outraged mother of an 8-year-old boy is sounding the alarm about a popular online gaming site for kids, telling NBC 4 New York's I-Team she believes her son was "groomed" by a sexual predator who was lurking in the virtual adventure world. Am I percent sure? Am I afraid? The mother only discovered the situation in February after the Canadian Centre for Child Protection issued a warning about the chat feature on Roblox, one of the first such warnings about the game, and she read about it on Facebook. She then asked her son if he played.

Online gaming site Roblox is receiving backlash for showing images of sexual adventures, obscene language, and nudity - mostly to young children. Roblox is a video game where more than half of its American users are under the age of 16, CBS News reports. He said numerous videos had been removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement.