Voice chat is very much on the way to Roblox, but that doesn’t mean it will appear overnight — and that’s by design. The company is inviting an initial group of 5,000 developers, all 13 and ...

Roblox is constantly finding ways to drive user engagement up, and its new upgrade could keep people on the platform way longer.

Games platform Roblox announced today that it has acquired group chat platform Guilded.

Roblox, the maker of user-generated game, said it has acquired the startup Guilded, a maker of platform for connecting gaming communities.

This means developers will not only have the ability to build video chat into their games, they’ll also be able to lean on the machine-learning already deployed in Roblox’s audio-calling feature.