TechCrunch

Roblox will require all users to perform age checks to access chat starting in January

Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, ...
The New York Times

Roblox, Where Kids Game and Chat, Will Analyze Users’ Faces to Verify Age

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...
BBC

Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers

Children will no longer be able to chat to adult strangers on Roblox - one of the world's most popular gaming platforms - as part of an expansion of its safety measures. Mandatory age checks will be ...
PC Gamer

Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...
The New York Times

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? By Kevin ...
Gulf News

Roblox chat in the UAE: When will the feature return?

Roblox tells Gulf News they’re rethinking moderation and age checks for millions of kids Inside Roblox’s plan to rebuild trust in the GCC: new rules, new tech, and a very different chat system.
PCGamesN

Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method'

Everstone Studio can create such an expansive world and give it away to players for free, look at where the money's coming from. The publishing power of NetEase is well-versed in live-service ...
CNN

Lawsuits claim Roblox endangers kids. New AI age verification aims to block them from chatting with adults

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 ...
PCGamesN

Wuxia action RPG Where Winds Meet rockets up the Steam charts, but its 'AI chatbot' NPCs have overshadowed the combat

If you don't wish to be lumped in with a small subsection of the gaming sphere that welcomes the use of AI for how it threatens well-meaning studios and their talent, you may have another game to ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Roblox promises age checks as Australia's under-16 social media ban looms

Roblox says it will roll out verification checks in Australia and two other countries from early December. The move is likely to coincide with the federal government's social media ban for under-16s, ...
GamesRadar+

Where Winds Meet players find a way to skip side quests by manipulating the MMO's AI chatbot NPCs into just giving over the goods instead

Where Winds Meet players have found a few methods that can be used to manipulate the AI chatbot NPCs into giving you the rewards for their side quests, without the need to actually help them out. So ...
GamesRadar+

No, it's not just you – Dune: Awakening NPCs really did become harder as Funcom admits to "undocumented changes" in the survival MMO's last big update, says "we will revert it"

Third Person Shooters Helldivers 2 boss says morale at Arrowhead is "much better now" following Into the Unjust blowback as "Steam score is trending upwards" and "development is progressing" Survival ...