Roblox Makes Big Changes to Parental Controls Amid 'Pedophile Hellscape' Report
Roblox is implementing some major changes to the control it gives parents over their children's accounts following damning reports that its platform was rife with child exploitation and abuse.In an email sent to parents who manage children accounts on Roblox, which IGN has obtained and which Bloomberg first reported, the company details that it's finally introducing Roblox accounts with parental privileges. Prior to this, Roblox parental controls allowed parents to essentially set a PIN on a child's account that only the parent would know. This unlocks the ability to change settings like what type of content the child can access and set spending limits.Now, PINs are going away. Instead, parents must create their own separate Roblox accounts and link them to the child account…
Read moreThe Day Before Dev Cancels Failing Kickstarter and Announces Another Game in the Same Breath
The Day Before developer Fntastic has cancelled its failing Kickstarter for one game and announced another in the same breath.Fntastic, who released the utterly disastrous The Day Before in December 2023 before pretending to shut down, resurfaced in September asking for money for a new game: the physics based multiplayer game Escape Factory.It has now cancelled this project, however, after it reached just 15.73% of its Kickstarter goal with $3,146 raised of a $20,000 goal. "Our campaign on Kickstarter is unlikely to reach our goal," Fntastic said in a statement published to X/Twitter announcing another game."After careful analysis and discussion with the team, we have decided that our Escape Factory project has not generated enough interest," it said. The Kickstarter re…
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