Roblox was released in 2006, three years before Minecraft was released in 2009. Both games share a DNA influenced by Lego toys, but aside from their blocky aesthetics are relatively separate games.

Minecraft and Roblox cater to today’s youth to create, explore, build and share with others in the community. Blocks of creativity Minecraft was released in the year 2011 and was developed by ...

Adams: The creator of Minecraft, Markus Persson, became a billionaire when he sold the company to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2015.. Baszucki: I was attracted to this venture out of pure passion ...

Roblox and Minecraft are two games that seem to take much of the same inspiration. Roblox even has entire game modes modeled after Mojang's popular sandbox game.

Minecraft, of course, is the virtual world game that has more than 100 million users. Microsoft bought it two years ago for $2.5 billion. Roblox isn’t so much a single game as a platform for ...