At 20 years old, Alex Hicks faced a problem most college students never encounter: The online games he was creating were ...

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Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla said investigators are looking into whether online activity, including chats on the gaming ...

The agreement comes after the eSafety commissioner discovered adults were still able to see child accounts on Roblox, as well ...

U.S. Senators Josh Hawley and Dick Durbin are opening a congressional investigation into Roblox over allegations of sexual abuse on the platform. The inquiry is a bipartisan effort led by the Senate ...

Australia's internet regulator secured a court-enforceable undertaking from Roblox to improve protections against grooming ...

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Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally for the best part of a decade. Although he ...

With its Netflix extended look coming up, a reader ponders how GTA 6 will affect the rest of the games industry and if it’ll be for good or ill.