Roblox responds to LA County lawsuit, the latest of many alleging the game fails to protect children from predators: ‘While no system can be perfect, our commitment to safety never ends’

On Thursday, February 19, Roblox was sued by Los Angeles County for allegedly failing to guard the children that play it from predators. A press release from the county argues that “while Roblox markets itself as a safe digital space for creativity, it is in reality an unsafe online environment that has become a breeding…

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High flying FPS Ultrakill will finally reach the 8th layer of Hell next week: ‘Skip school. Call out sick from work. It’s finally happening. And we’re not lying’

New Blood has revealed that Ultrakill’s next major addition, Hell’s eighth layer of Fraud, will be added to the early access FPS next week. Fraud was initially set to release at the end of 2025, but suffered a minor last minute delay. We don’t know the exact day the update will drop, but New Blood…

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Guide: Every Shining Game, Ranked

A light in the darkness. The Shining series may well be best known for its line of tactics RPGs, most notably the Shining Force sub-series, but the 35-year-old franchise actually started out as a first-person perspective dungeon crawler and went on to span many different sub-genres, making it one of the most diverse RPG series…

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This musical RPG is doing important work by letting you beat up music snobs, but I really stuck around for the painful (brilliant) puns

I still regularly listen to Styx, so I would never criticise anyone’s musical taste, and thus I feel a certain kinship with People of Note protagonist Cadence. Her stab at pop stardom hinges on her combining different genres and breaking through to the cliquey denizens of her music-themed world—essentially fighting musical snobbery. People of Note’s…

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Avowed was always great, but now that it costs what it should have at launch and nobody’s being weird about it online, it’s kinda perfect

Pepperidge Farm remembers: It usually takes about five years for everyone to decide an Obsidian Entertainment game was actually really good. In a pleasantly surprising turn of events, it seems to have only required exactly 12 months for Avowed, last year’s action-RPG spinoff to Pillars of Eternity, to get such a reappraisal. It’s still the…

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Saints Row 1 designer reckons the series is ‘dead,’ adding that Embracer ‘ghosted’ him after a comeback pitch: ‘I wish things were different’

Saints Row is dead. Long live Saints Row? No, it’s actually dead, at least according to the design director on the first game, Chris Stockman. As Eurogamer reported, Stockman said as much in a Discord for his new company, Bit Planet Games. A thread on X from user papaRPG popularized a screenshot of Stockman responding…

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