Alphabet's Google and Unity Software announced Playground on Oct 7, a platform that lets people 18 and older generate and customize video games from natural language text prompts with no coding requir…
Lemonade post-trained Hy3, a 295B model, to generate Roblox UI in its agentic Roblox Studio harness, targeting parity with Grok 4.5 at lower cost for its hundreds of thousands of users. The team built…
A developer built a Geometry Dash-style game in Roblox using six typed prompts with ForgeGUI, an AI tool whose Roblox Studio plugin inserts generated content directly into a place. The prompts progres…
A developer known as @ash.robloxdev built a pick-up-and-throw mechanic in Roblox Studio without writing any code, using the AI tool ForgeGUI and its Roblox Studio plugin. The build was driven entirely…
A 15-year-old developer released a work-in-progress revival of the Road Rash racing game, built with Opus5.5, on Hacker News' Show HN. The project adds non-NPC AI opponents that players can control wi…
Persona Identities Inc., the identity-verification vendor that runs face and ID checks for Reddit, Roblox, ChatGPT, LinkedIn and Claude, has been sued under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy …
Meta announced Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app, two new development tools that let users build 2D or 3D games from AI prompts, with early access available via a waitlis…
A developer built a network of 30 AI-generated game wiki sites over 45 days using AI coding agents, only to find Google indexed essentially none of the 302 known URLs. A post-mortem audit revealed thr…
The European Commission proposed the EU Kids Act this week, legislation that would ban social media for children under 13, require age verification for online accounts, and force companies including M…
Roblox announced at its 12th annual Roblox Developers Conference a set of platform updates that will let users build standalone games for other platforms, play offline, play in-browser, and generate g…
Roblox announced at its developers conference on Friday that creators will be able to distribute their games as standalone apps across mobile, PC and consoles, with Roblox providing the underlying tec…
Roblox announced engine updates, the Roblox Wallet, and offline play capabilities at its RDC 2026 keynote in San Jose, California, where senior vice president of engine and creator engineering Nick To…
Elf Beauty has signed a year-long exclusive deal with AI styling app Alta, whose user base of millions can now try on Elf Beauty products using virtual avatars, add them to wishlists, and shop directl…
Roblox developer Hoofer used Nvidia's leaked DLSS 5 renderer to give Roblox avatars photorealistic human faces, sharing footage on September 1 that shows blocky characters with realistic skin and eyes…
Dream Racers, a new Roblox game launched Sept. 1 by creator studio Studsy, uses Roblox's Cube generative AI tool to generate playable vehicles in real time from three-adjective prompts, with the words…
Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories over claims that its Instagram and Facebook platforms harmed children's mental he…
Meta, Google, TikTok and Roblox are expanding AI-based age-assurance systems as regulators push for stricter child protections, with Meta facing an $18 billion settlement with 48 states, the District …
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to enhance its AI-driven age-estimation tools as part of an $18 billion settlement with 48 US states, the District of Columbia, and US territories over allegations that …
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act, making it the first AI chatbot to receive the designation. OpenAI reported approximately…
The European Commission designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the Digital Services Act on August 31, 2026, making it the first standalone AI chatbot to receive…