Sanrio's "cheeky but charming" punk-rock rabbit mascot, Kuromi, is finally getting her time in the spotlight this Halloween.

On the outside, it’s a LEGO-like universe, where you can immerse yourself in a virtual brick world. But as one Taft family found, this video game, targeted at kids, could be dangerous.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. I’ve arrived in the middle of a vast expanse of what looks like green LEGO ...

The 2025 Roblox Innovation Awards unveiled its winners during a ceremony at the San Jose Civic Theater Saturday with many of the top honors going to some of the platform’s most popular games, ...

Roblox, the popular gaming platform that has garnered controversy and lawsuits in recent weeks over allegations it poses a threat to child safety, said Wednesday it is working on new initiatives to ...

There are a lot of popular games I haven’t personally connected with, including The Sims, Minecraft, pretty much anything that looks like anime. Roblox is among them—oh yeah, Among Us too—and I’ve ...

Roblox has become one of the most popular video games of all time, but it has a darker side, where hate speech and racism are reportedly spreading unchecked. The online platform enables users to ...

World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...

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After a popular YouTuber who entraps suspected sexual predators he contacts through Roblox was banned from the youth-targeted gaming platform this month, the company found itself defending its ...

Editor's note: This article contains descriptions and an image of hate speech found on the Roblox servers and might be triggering to some readers. In Roblox, one of the world's largest online gaming ...

There are certain video games in our world right now that have a “fanbase so loyal” that even after many years of life, changes, updates, and so on, people can’t help but play them. For example, there ...