Roblox Corporation has announced changes to its child-safety policies that'll impact the way pre-teen users can interact with its popular gaming platform. The move follows persitent accusations the company routinely fails to protect its predominantly young player base, and, more recently, a damning report calling Roblox an "X-rated paedophile hellscape" that exposes children to "grooming, pornography, violent content and extremely abusive speech".
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You've got to feel for Sam the postwoman. Every day she brings Wilmot the next instalment of his puzzle club subscription, and every day she tries to engage him in conversation - about the weather, why there are five cars in the neighbour's driveway, her sister Ruth moving in, her next walking holiday… Heck, she even invites Wilmot to go on holiday with her at one point. A bit forward, if you ask me, but who am I to stand in the way of human and sentient white cube relationships?
When I was little I had one of those toy tills, the ones where you could pretend to scan items through with a little scanner that would go 'beep' when you pressed the button. It had a little cash drawer that opened up with different compartments in it where you could put your fake money and get change out, which also locked with a key I lost so frequently my mum would repeatedly wedge it open for me (thanks mum!). Anyway, I spent so many hours pretending to have various businesses with that till, be it a vet service tending to tigers with bad paws to lining up my toys and pretending I was at Toys R Us. It was always one of my favourite toys, so when I found that Toy Shop Simulator's (still available!) Steam Next Fest demo gave off the same vibe as one of my childhood favourites, I knew I had to give it a try.
The Day Before developer Fntastic has called it a day on the Kickstarter it hoped would secure funding for Escape Factory, a physics-based multiplayer co-op escape game.
Guerrilla Games studio director Jan-Bart van Beek has shed more light on how the team got
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