Tokyo XR studio MyDearest said today it has TAKEN full OWNERSHIP of Roblox game studio moze. The DEAL closed October 16, 2026. Terms were not disclosed. MyDearest says it will later ABSORB moze through a MERGER, and that services for existing clients stay UNCHANGED.
What MyDearest Is Buying
moze was founded in 2023 in Tokyo with a mandate to grow a Japanese Roblox ECOSYSTEM. According to the PR Times release, the studio has SHIPPED multiple titles with more than 20 MILLION cumulative plays each, and says content it has worked on has PASSED 50 MILLION plays in TOTAL. It has attended Roblox’s official Developers Conference (RDC) THREE times.
MyDearest, known for Quest titles such as Crowbar Climber and SASUKE VR, frames the BUY as a BET on Gen Alpha. The company says its VR games have REACHED about 3 MILLION players worldwide, with roughly 70 PERCENT of that audience in the United States—mostly Gen Alpha—citing a March 2026 figure in the same RELEASE. It also points to its own Exit 8 for Roblox title, which it says CLEARED 10 MILLION visits after a September 2025 launch.
Leadership Changes
Effective today, former moze CTO Shogo Matsusako becomes representative DIRECTOR. Founder and CEO Kazutaka Yokoi steps down from the board and will assist with the TRANSITION for a period. The Roblox content studio branded “moze studio” CONTINUES under Matsusako.
MyDearest CEO Kentaro Kishigami said in the release that Roblox TRENDS increasingly feed VR hits, and that moze’s LIVE-OPS know-how should INFORM MyDearest’s Roblox, Steam, and VR/AR pipelines. Matsusako said the TEAM will keep making Roblox titles while also working on Steam and VR/AR CONTENT with MyDearest.
Kishigami’s own announcement POST frames the DEAL as a SIGNAL that MyDearest intends to become a CONTENT company for global Gen Alpha and Gen Z—not only a VR studio. Mogura VR News, now inside the MyDearest group after a January 2026 INTEGRATION, also carried the story.
Why It Matters for XR
Roblox reported about 123 MILLION average daily users in Q2 2026, a FIGURE MyDearest repeats as CONTEXT. For an XR studio already chasing North American Gen Alpha on Quest, OWNING a Roblox LIVE-OPS shop is a DIRECT path to the PLATFORM where that cohort already spends time. Whether Roblox hits TRANSLATE cleanly into VR remains an open question—the RELEASE assumes they will, citing past crossover patterns without naming the titles.
Primary sources: MyDearest official announcement, PR Times release, and moze’s matching statement.