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Roblox is an online platform and game engine that allows users to create games and play user-generated experiences.
… CEO Tim Sweeney spent his time on stage during Unreal Fest 2026 this week in Chicago pitching Unreal Engine 6 as the alternative to a gaming ecosystem dominated by closed platforms like Roblox. …
… The ecosystem Epic currently offers up is generous compared to the Roblox example. …
… Basically, do the same sort of integrated gameverse thing Roblox does, with content, communities, and economies all linked together into one blob with different offshoots, so players see games not as "isolated products", but as "a global ecosystem that all game developers participate in together". …
… Epic issues AAA and Roblox warning as it reveals Unreal Engine 6 In Brief: Epic boss Tim Sweeney called on the video game industry to connect together and change how it makes games to counter a future where “Roblox grows and eats gaming”. …
… Of those games, it's Roblox that seems to particularly aggravate Sweeney, perhaps because it presents a direct sort of competitor to the user-generated games and experiences Fortnite also offers. "One view of the future is that Roblox grows and eats gaming," Sweeney said. …
… It will essentially occupy that adult-enumerated space at the top of the ecosystem; there’s a very natural place there for people that graduate from Roblox and Minecraft. …
… During today’s State of Unreal presentation in Chicago, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney suggested that this is a very “different” vision of the future than the one proposed by Roblox , which Sweeney suggested could “grow and eat gaming.” But, at least on paper, it’s difficult to read Epic’s plan for a massive… …
… ROBLOX surged five places to 8, and Minecraft rose two spots to 9. …
… They’ll likely need some kind of incentives to make the effort with it instead of just opening a door that feeds back into Epic’s Fortnite ecosystem. …
… Commenting the rise of closed ecosystems such as Roblox, he stressed the need for an “open, interconnected gaming ecosystem” where all game developers can participate, proposing an industry-wide initiative he dubbed "Team Open." In a subsequent interview with PC Gamer, Sweeney was asked whether he … …