Roblox Recap: January 2025

Hello, Robloxians! Thanks for tuning in to the Roblox Recap monthly newsletter, a quick and easy way to get caught up on everything happening each month on the Roblox platform. Here’s a summary of the latest and greatest news, updates, and announcements for January 2025…

New Features

• Personalized discovery on the Home page and Search ↗

• Advertise paid access & restricted (17+) experiences ↗

• DrawImageProjected API ↗

Updates

• Friend limit increased to 1,000 ↗

• Unified Lighting in Studio ↗

• Mesh loading optimizations ↗

• Video uploads now available in Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese (simplified + traditional), Japanese, and Korean ↗

• An update on preventing account farming and exploits ↗

Coming Soon

• New features for publishing and selling on the Avatar Marketplace ↗

• March 20th: End of support for Roblox Studio on Windows 7 and 8.1, plus MacOS 10.13

Events

• Creator AMA with Roblox leadership team ↗

• Get ready for the 2025 Developer Challenge ↗

• Cast your opinion for what you want to see during Inspire 2025 ↗

Free Items

• Meowblitzer avatar (PlayStation Plus exclusive) ↗

Corporate

• Roblox to report Q4 2024 and Fiscal Year 2024 financial results on February 6th ↗

• Roblox CEO David Baszucki potentially invests in buying TikTok with YouTuber MrBeast ↗

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In case you missed it…

Catch up on the December 2024 Recap for a full list of news, updates, and announcements released last month:

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