I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

Roblox is set to introduce a new voice chat feature called “Spatial Voice,” made available to a limited group of developers through an invite-only beta. The company’s chief product officer Manuel ...

As one of the frontrunners in the race to build the metaverse, Roblox is thinking ahead to what virtual worlds really need. And while the platform has had no shortage of growth on its current path — ...

Roblox has acquired speech technology startup Speechly to help it integrate a new spatial voice chat feature safely. Roblox is a powerful sandbox tool that lets almost anyone create a unique game with ...

Gamers aren't happy about Roblox's new chat and age verification update, expressing multiple problems with the process and ...

Roblox has suspended voice and text chat features in Saudi Arabia and the UAE amid rising concerns over child safety. The move follows regulatory discussions and a Guardian investigation exposing ...

Two years after announcing voice chat was coming to Roblox, the gaming company has acquired a voice tech startup, Speechly, offering voice chat moderation, real-time transcription and Voice API that ...

Roblox will soon allow unfiltered chatting, but only to players whose age has been verified by an AI tool. In a recent blog post, Matt Kaufman, chief safety officer for the widely popular gaming ...

Roblox is introducing a new age-based chat system. Users will undergo age verification using facial scans or government IDs. This will place them into narrow age groups, restricting private chats ...

The “next step” to make talking to others safer in-game? One of the things that we’ve talked about over the last few months is that Roblox may be a “great game” in terms of its overall composition and ...

Roblox will launch facial age checks as a requirement for all users who want to access communication features beginning next month. The gaming platform has also implemented age-based chats to limit ...

Dubai: For many children in the UAE, Roblox is less a game and more a social universe, a place where school-aged users build worlds, swap stories and spend hours immersed in user-generated experiences ...