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Despite being one of the largest entertainment industries in the world, game development has traditionally had a high barrier to entry due to the level of technical knowledge required to create games.

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Techmeme: Roblox rolls out an update to make its materials look and act more lifelike, overhauling core aspects of the visual toolkit that developers use to make games (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

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Techmeme: updates Music on iOS and Android with Samples, a music discovery feed featuring vertically cropped, 30-second clips uploaded directly by artists (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Roblox wants to make you a console game dev with its new Xbox app - SiliconANGLE