At age 7, Ethan Dallas began playing the online game, where he met Nate. Deadly abuse followed, said Ethan’s mother, who ...

Ethan Dallas was targeted by an adult sexual predator on Roblox when he was 12, and later on Discord, according to a lawsuit.

SAN ANTONIO – Have you heard of Roblox? If you’re a parent, you probably have. Roblox is an app that carries over 40 million user-made games made primarily for kids. However, the more popular Roblox ...

Speaking to Yahoo Life last year about safety concerns, Laura Higgins, Roblox’s director of community safety and civility, said, "We update our filters continuously, multiple times a day.” Higgins ...

Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — essentially a remake of the legendary time-waster FarmVille — recently smashed ...

If your kids play Roblox, listen up. The kids’ gaming platform is also a haven for pedophiles. Take sicko DoctorRofatnik, aka “Doc,” creator of Sonic Eclipse Online, a Roblox game popular with ...

TULSA, Okla. — 12-year-old Reese Osburn loves playing Roblox. It's an online game players can use in lots of ways. They can play alone or in groups. Osburn's older cousin introduced him to it when he ...

This week, I'm contemplating camping out at my nearest Best Buy to score a Nintendo Switch 2. Meanwhile, my kids have zero desire to encourage me in this pursuit, because the only gaming platform they ...

In 2004, I bought "Halo 2" for my Xbox. It was the first game I ever played against an opponent online. While commonplace today, the concept of playing a video game against someone on the other side ...

When you’re a parent, there’s nothing more important than protecting your child from things they shouldn’t do or shouldn’t see. It’s never easy, but no one ever said that parenting would be easy. In ...

Joanne Orlando received funding from eSafety Commissioner. Roblox isn’t just another video game – it’s a massive virtual universe where nearly 90 million people from around the world create, play and ...

Katherine Fung is a Newsweek senior reporter based in New York City. She has covered U.S. politics and culture extensively. Katherine joined Newsweek in 2020. She is a graduate of the University of ...