AI Company Chronicle Studios Strikes Deal With ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Animator Gabe Hordos

EXCLUSIVE: Gabe Hordos, an animator who has worked on movies such as How To Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda, launched his ...
Amazon S3 on MSN

How horror crossover animations succeed on Roblox

GamingWithKev compares animations between Poppy Playtime and Squid Game in Roblox.

Gungnir Launches Animation Studio To Build “The Cartoon Network Of The Digital Era”

Gungnir is launching an animation studio that will feed an in-house YouTube channel that planned as "the Cartoon Network of ...
CNN

Lawsuits claim Roblox endangers kids. New AI age verification aims to block them from chatting with adults

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...

How Animation Studio Titmouse Brought Critical Role to Life in ‘The Mighty Nein’

In Critical Role, the wildly popular actual play Dungeons & Dragons series that first told this story, all it took was Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer ‘s narration, a couple of miniature models, and the ...
The New York Times

Roblox, Where Kids Game and Chat, Will Analyze Users’ Faces to Verify Age

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...
TechCrunch

Roblox will require all users to perform age checks to access chat starting in January

Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, ...

New 4K restorations of Studio Ghibli movies are coming to IMAX screens in 2026

As if Studio Ghibli movies like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Howl’s Moving Castle weren’t pretty enough already, they may soon get a theatrical re-release in 4K quality.
PC Gamer

Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...

How a ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Animated Short Tackles the Rise of AI

Lost in New Jersey,” a new short film starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was released, an early complaint on the ...
BBC

Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers

Children will no longer be able to chat to adult strangers on Roblox - one of the world's most popular gaming platforms - as part of an expansion of its safety measures. Mandatory age checks will be ...
Mashable

Want to chat on Roblox? You'll need to verify your age.

Roblox chat will only be available to users whose age is estimated. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Dima Berlin / iStock / Getty / Roblox The gaming platform Roblox will begin using age ...