The new safety measure comes as Roblox faces criticism and at least 35 lawsuits alleging users meet and abuse children on the gaming platform or that the platform helps facilitate child sexual exploitation and grooming.

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph their face.

Games of all types, from Fortnite to Wordle to Roblox were affected by the AWS outage. Problems started at about 7.30am BST (that's 2.30am ET) yesterday, October 20, when gaming services started having huge spikes on the outage-detecting website Downdetector.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida’s attorney general issued a subpoena to the popular online gaming platform Roblox on Monday, demanding information about how the platform sets age-verification requirements, moderates chat rooms, and markets itself to ...

Rumors that Roblox is shutting down are spreading across social media, fueled by growing concerns over the platform’s ability to protect its young players. The speculation comes as the company faces mounting criticism, a lawsuit from the Louisiana ...

Roblox users now will be required to undergo a facial recognition check before utilizing the Roblox chat feature for its 150 million daily players.

And it’s getting sued…again. As sad as it sounds, video games have always been the focus of many controversies. Some of them have been overblown, like they’re “turning kids’ brains into mush,” which we know isn’t true. Some of them have been ...