The gaming giant described the rollout as a "significant milestone" toward achieving the "gold standard for communication ...
Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a ...
Last year, American kids and teens spent a lot of time playing video games like Roblox and Minecraft. On average, our children engaged in user-created games on Roblox for about 140 minutes per day, ...
ROBLOX is now beginning to launch a mandatory age-check scheme for all users around the world. If players of the hit game don ...
Roblox began requiring the age check for chat access in December in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, following ...
Further to the voluntary age checks rolled out to "limit communication between minors and adults" back in November, ...
The age-check system relies primarily on facial age estimation using a video selfie captured through a device camera.
Roblox has made facial verification mandatory for all users worldwide to access chats, following child safety concerns and ...
In early January 2026, Roblox introduced mandatory global age verification for all users to access chat, using facial age ...
Roblox is tightening access to its chat features by rolling out mandatory facial age verification worldwide, following months ...
Roblox said the system will also support future measures, including age checks for creators using certain collaboration tools ...