It started with a game. The 15-year-old, whom we’ll call Sarah, must have been flattered when a celebrity from one of her favourite online games singled her out. Jacob Shedletsky, well known as a ...

What is Roblox? ROBLOX is an online virtual playground and workshop, where kids of all ages can safely interact, create, have ...

The Escapist looks into the Roblox gambling situation, what’s being done about it by the Roblox corporation, concerned ...

Roblox, which has over 380 million monthly active users, is an online game that is especially popular among children overseas, but it has also been criticized for exploiting children. It has been ...

In 2024, Roblox pulled in more than R78-billion in bookings, powered by its 111.8 million daily active users. Analysts estimate that between R48-billion and R57-billion of that came from under-18s. In ...

Taylor Hardwick is employed under funding by the Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship #220100076; DECRA #240101275). She is a board member of both Freeplay, a Melbourne-based independent ...

UPDATE: A Roblox spokesperson told us, “Roblox is aware of a third-party security issue where there was unauthorized access to limited personal information of a subset of our creator community. Our ...