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Roblox Adds Age Verification for Teens Who Want to Chat: What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 00:20:43

Roblox, the popular gaming platform, has revamped the way it will handle player communications, particularly for those under 18. As detailed in a blog post, the company says it's changing "Friends" to "Connections" across the platform and is launching new tools to estimate a player's age via a video selfie. That age verification, for those 13 to 17, will unlock a feature called "Trusted Connections" that allows for less filtered text or voice chat. Those who aren't able to verify their age with

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Roblox launches new age verification system to unlock unfiltered chats

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-07-22 06:00:01

Users over 13 years old will be prompted to use the facial-analysis software to estimate their age and determine whether they can access the new "trusted connections" feature that allows them to engage in private, unfiltered chats with other age-screened users, Ebanks said. Roblox's use of age-estimation tech will help the company "confirm the age of our users and give them more tailored and age-appropriate features," said Ryan Ebanks, a Roblox principal product manager for social products. So

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Roblox is adding an 'age estimation' feature for teens

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 06:00:47

Roblox is joining the growing ranks of online platforms that are trying to better understand the ages of their teen users. The company is rolling out a new " age estimation " feature for teens 13 and older. With the update, teens will be prompted for an age check that requires a video selfie in order to access its new less restrictive chat feature called "trusted connections." Roblox is relying on third-party identity company Persona for the actual "estimation," and users who fail the check wil

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Roblox introduces new safeguards for teens, including age estimation tech

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-07-22 06:00:00

Roblox announced Thursday that it’s launching new safeguards for people who are between the ages of 13 and 18. The company is introducing “Trusted Connections” to allows these users to connect more freely with people they know, alongside age estimation technology, more privacy tools, and insights for parents of teens. Roblox has come under fire in recent years for how it handles child safety. In April, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to Roblox in response to reports th

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Roblox creators can now make their own Stranger Things and Twilight games

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-07-25 21:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Roblox is launching a new licensing platform that will make it easier for companies to offer their intellectual property (IP) to creators so they can build approved experiences. The platform includes a license manager that “equips rights holders with new self-serve IP management tools” and a licenses catalog that creators can browse and use to apply for “licensed use of IP,” a

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Infrastructure at Roblox

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 10:58:20

Throttling is a very accepted concept in computer science. But this is the most misused and misunderstood lever of computer science. When new engineers join Roblox, their first solutions often include, “If we could just tell our creators to tweak this config or slow down their events…”. Veteran Roblox engineers then gently explain our value of respecting the community and that we don’t tell our creators what to do. For example, most gaming systems have a simple solution for matchmaking when mil

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Roblox wants to better reward creators for bringing players back

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-28 21:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Roblox is introducing two new systems that are designed to further encourage creators to bring players onto the social games platform on a regular basis. The systems, part of what Roblox is calling Creator Rewards, will roll out beginning July 24th. One is the Daily Engagement Reward program, which gives Roblox creators 5 Robux for an “active spender” on the platform who spen

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Grow a Garden: The surprise Roblox gaming hit

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-29 18:58:02

Grow a Garden: The surprise Roblox gaming hit 3 days ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Roblox Shooting, chasing, exploring - hit video games tend to have themes that set the pulse racing. One of the world's most popular new titles, however, is about something considerably more sedate - gardening. Grow a Garden involves players slowly developing a little patch of virtual land. It's something that, earlier this month, more than 16m people - many of them children - chos

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Fortnite and Roblox are making Apple’s kid-friendly iPad obsolete sooner than expected

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-09-11 09:54:14

Apple doesn’t talk much about RAM and iPads. Popular iPad games, however, are forcing the conversation. Fortnite and Roblox, for example, are saying game over to an iPad model with a kid-friendly price that Apple sold until last year. What you should know Roblox is breaking on iPads with 3GB RAM or less Fortnite requires at least 4GB RAM to launch Apple stopped selling iPads with 3GB RAM in May 2024 How iPad games are breaking Epic Games brought Fortnite back to the U.S. App Store in May 2

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Gamefam brings FIFA Club World Cup 2025 to Roblox

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-09-14 01:00:00

Roblox game studio Gamefam announced today it is collaborating with FIFA to bring the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 to its game Super League Soccer. The two are holding a major event within the game leading up to the Club World Cup to raise the tournament’s profile with Roblox’s Gen Z and Alpha-aged audience. All 13 of the participating football clubs are playable in Roblox for the first time, with the event set to kick off on June 14 and running through July 13 alongside the real Club World Cup. Ac

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