Roblox's user-generated game characters.
Roblox's user-generated game characters.
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Roblox starts age verification for those who want to use spatial voice

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Roblox is introducing age verification for users, starting with those who want to try out spatial voice features on its user-generated content platform.

As the company’s community continues to expand, both globally and by age (nearly 50% of the users on the platform are over the age of 13 as of the second quarter), Roblox wants to make sure that everyone can express themselves in a safe and respectful way.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.