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Some of Roblox’s youngest players will soon be restricted from unrated experiences and hangouts in the game. Last summer,Roblox was banned in Turkeyover child exploitation concerns. Additionally, only children 13 and older will be allowed to utilize the social hangouts and free-form user-creation experiences. It depends on how successful the new measures are. The company also touted its work with law enforcement to tackle illegal activity on the platform. The new restrictions for players under 13 will go into effect on December 3....

“It remains important to increase touchpoints beyond video games.” But the company isn’t going to rely only on traditional hardware and games to find success. You need a javascript enabled online window to watch videos. Want us to remember this setting for all your devices? “We will continue to deliberate on this topic,” Furukawa said. Instead, they’re discovering Nintendo and its characters through things likeofficially licensed Mario toothbrushes. It is one of thetop 20 highest-grossing movies in historyand theNo....

The PlayStation connection suffered a major outage lasting nearly 24 hours but is now back up and running. [UPDATE]The PlayStation web connection is back online and operating normally. Sony said players should now be able to access online services “without any problems.” “Sorry for the inconvenience,” Sony said in its update announcing the restoration of online services. But the company eventually stated that an “operational issue” led to the downtime....

Not your average Mech game. On 7th September 1993, Jordan Mechner wrote about The Last Express inhis journal. So, why go back to games? Why not tell his thrilling train story via a movie or comic book? After Prince of Persia, I left San Francisco. I went back to New York. I learned 16-millimeter filmmaking. This is 1991 technology. That was when the idea for The Last Express came together."...

An impressively tweaked port. Grid Legendsis a great-looking racing game. That’s true across all the platforms, but the recent release on Android and iOS is intriguing. In fact, it’s one of the only triple-A iOS ports I can actually recommend. Lighting has been significantly simplified while shadows are obviously lower-res, with a sharper divide between cascades. Shadow aliasing is a bigger problem as a result, with coarser shadows that look less natural at rest....

The RPG from Warhorse is off to a fast start. The original story follows below. The game hasexceeded 150,000 concurrent users on Steam, just hours after launch, and is theNo. 1 top-selling game on Steam in the USright now. The game is also available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game’s launch is drawing praise from other RPG studios, including The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red. The developersaid, “Congratulations on the release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II!...

A few of the things that have us hooked this week. What have you been playing? Catch up with the older editions of this column in ourWhat We’ve Been Playing archive. Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, Xbox Series X Ninja’s are elegant. But not here - at least, not when I’m playing. I put this in part down to my own gameplay. But I also put that awkwardness down to the game itself....

Plus, how to upgrade the Soda Machine on Gemstone Mountain. However, you first need tounlock the soda machinethrough a specific quest. Without further ado, here areall soda machine recipes in Hello Kitty Island Adventureandhow to upgrade the soda machine. This is a good way of experimenting to have a go at find new recipes. When you’re happy with your choices, use the ‘Cook’ option to create some bubbly soda! That’s it for now!...

“… we want to make everything intentional,” the game’s director says. “One example was the idea of mountain dwarves tending to be more itinerant. What would that culture be like? Why would those characters have made that decision, and what would that mean for the story?” Like Microsoft’s other first-party games, Avowed is included with Game Pass Ultimate at launch. For more, be sure to check out GameSpot’sAvowed preorder guide....

In the latest teaser trailer for Sundered Doctrine, we get a small preview of things to come. When does Sundered Doctrine launch? Sundered Doctrine will launch on Friday, February 7 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. What are the requirements to enter Sundered Doctrine’s Contest Mode? How can players complete Sundered Doctrine’s Contest Mode? Additionally, it has to be the first time completing the encounter for every member of the team....

Sundered Doctrine brings with it tons of new secrets including a strange new Exotic weapon. Here’s how to get it and how it works. That means you’ll need access to the dungeon, which requires the Final Shape Dungeon Key. That amounts to about $20 and also gets you access to the Sundered Doctrine dungeon. If you finish Sundered Doctrine in Contest mode, you’ll get Finality’s Auger for your trouble. We’ll expand this guide with additional details once the dungeon is available....

Plus Cosmic Exploration and new Phantom Jobs. Eventually these will lead to the presumed next expansion. A new Trial called Recollection against a Beatrix-esque cyborg will also be added. Further, we’ve finally received further details on the forthcoming Cosmic Exploration mode. Not much more is known yet, though more details will follow in the next livestream. Counter-measures against this will be implemented in Patch 7.2 and onwards.

The post-Dawntrail era in Final Fantasy XIV begins in March with a new dungeon and a lot more options. Last year,Final Fantasy XIVplayers celebrated the release ofDawntrail, the game’s first major expansion since 2021. Got a news tip or want to contact us directly?