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Roblox acquires the team at Guilded

August 17, 2021

Roblox acquires the team at Guilded
Roblox is using M&A to bulk up its social infrastructure, reporting Monday morning that they had acquired the group at Guilded that has been building a chat platform for competitive gamers. 
 
The service competes gaming chat giant Discord, with the team’s founders telling TechCrunch in the past that as Discord’s desires had grown beyond the gaming world, its core product was meeting less competitive gaming needs. 
 
Like Discord, clients can have text and voice conversations on the Guilded platform, however, Guilded likewise permitted clients to organize communities around events and calendars, with plenty of specific functionality designed around ensuring that tournaments happened seamlessly. 
 
The startup’s product upheld many games, with specific functionality for a small group of titles, including League of Legends, Fortnite, CS: GO, and, indeed, Roblox. Recently, the organization launched a bot API intended to help non-technical clients build bots that could enrich their gaming communities.

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