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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

We’re almost at the end of 2025, giving us another fantastic year of gaming. As we round into the final months of the year, there’s little left other than to talk about Game of the Year, and Geoff ...

The Game Awards returns Thursday for its 11th annual awards event and video game trailer extravaganza, once again hosted by Geoff Keighley. As with years past, The Game Awards 2025 aims to celebrate ...

The Holiday Tree Portal is a furniture item in Disney Dreamlight Valley. It comes from the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas," and is a portal leading to Halloween Town (although, unfortunately, ...

Transfer portal season is coming soon in college football. And this year's edition is guaranteed to be fast and furious. The transfer portal officially opens on Jan. 2, the day after the College ...

Ms. Ungerman writes the newsletter default.blog under the pen name Katherine Dee. As I write this, my best friend sits across from me in my living room, staring at her phone. She’s in a trance, her ...

The microwave has one job: heat leftovers. So why does it sometimes flash, glow, or look like it’s trying to open a portal to another dimension? In this video, we explore the mystery behind microwave ...

While there are countless ways to play old video games, endless emulators that eat up ROMs and spew out memories, the hardware offerings from Analogue have elevated the act of retro gaming to an art ...

For the first time in fifteen years, the Stargate is reopening. The classic science fiction franchise that spawned a hit movie and three TV series is coming back to the small screen in the form of a ...