“Mister Speaker, just last week the prime minister placed the Australian treasurer in His Majesty’s Prison Service, with his only reasoning being that he ‘served as a leading figure in a fake UK a while back’.
“…I would like to ask the prime minister what exactly his reason is for the imprisonment of the Australian treasurer?”
So begins one of the questions asked by the leader of the opposition in Parliamentlast month. No – not the real one that’s currently embroiled in debates over Brexit.
I mean the one in Roblox.
If this name isn’t ringing any bells, you’re probably not alone, as Roblox remains relatively undiscussed in games media. While it may look like the outcome of an unfortunate accident at a Lego factory, Roblox is actually an incredibly successful game. Released in 2006, the free-to-play multiplayer title reached about 48 million monthly players in March 2017 – putting it in the same ballpark as Minecraft, which in February 2017 attracted 55m users per month. The current figure for Roblox stands at over 80m per month.