Roblox will soon require facial age verification for all chat features, enforcing age-based communication groups and ...

The rise of voice chat in online videogames has inevitably led to a growth in bad behavior between players—it is, after all, a lot easier to scream slurs and abuse at other people than it is to stop ...

Roblox is the first online gaming or communication platform to require facial age checks to access chat, establishing a new ...

There is no shortage of games on the Roblox platform. Players spend hours playing a broad range of titles. These games appeal to a massive audience. Players can hang out with friends and meet new ...

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know.

The age-verification tool uses facial recognition to put players into specific age groups before they can chat online.

Sara M. Grimes is Principal Investigator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded "Children and Age Appropriate Game Design" project and lead researcher on the Canada ...