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Happy Tuesday. Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, my collection of the past week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics. Roblox, the popular online game for children, is under fire ...

A Roblox logo in front of some darkened game icons. Roblox is making several changes to its adult-oriented content policies, including raising the minimum required age for viewing "restricted" ...

Games The games industry might be built on borrowed ideas, but new ones have to come from somewhere – even if Fumito Ueda says "the era of game mechanics is over" Cyberpunk After working on an indie ...

Up in the enormous halls of the northern half of Koelnmesse, the crowds are still being wowed by glitzy stands and demos of the latest games, not least the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong. But in ...

FPS Games The Ghostrunner devs have cooked up a first-person Soulslike that looks like BioShock meets Bloodborne, and oh yeah, it's set in fictional 19th century Europe during the Napoleonic Wars ...

As a millennial with no kids or younger siblings to endlessly pester me with all things internet brainrot, it's all too easy for me to forget just how freakin' gigantic Roblox is. But gigantic it is, ...

Roblox player numbers have hit a fresh high, amid a weekend event that saw the platform's two biggest games go to "war" to see which could attract the most players. According to public player data ...

A Colorado family is suing online gaming platform Roblox and Instagram owner Meta, alleging the companies’ negligence and misrepresentations about safety facilitated the sexual exploitation of a ...

The California-based gaming platform is immensely popular with children. But a recent wave of litigation accuses Roblox of facilitating sexual abuse. New York officials have recently taken aim at ...

Winners of four out of their last five, the New York Mets are attempting to march up the NL East standings. At the moment, the Mets are locked in a four-game set with the Philadelphia Phillies, the ...