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5 new POIs are arriving as part of Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 (Image via Fortnite) Epic Games is overhauling the Fortnite island for Chapter 7 Season 4 Override. The gaming-themed season is bringing a wave of brand-new points of interest, resulting in a map that looks like it has been fully hacked and rebooted…

Popular gaming platform Roblox has agreed to a court-enforceable undertaking with Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, and in doing so has committed to a range of new measures designed to protect children from grooming and sexual exploitation within Roblox games.

The inaugural Fortnite Reload Elite Series Championship opened its group stage Wednesday morning in Paris, putting 40 of the world’s best duos on course to crown the first Reload champion in competitive history — a title that has never existed before and will be claimed on Saturday at the Esports World Cup. The inaugural Reload…

Roblox is contributing three open-source safety models to the Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) Model Community. These include updates to our open-source PII Classifier, Roblox Sentinel, and our latest voice safety classifier. We’re also open-sourcing a new evaluation dataset that other companies can use to benchmark their own classifiers. Versions of these models already…

Lev Shevtsov19 August 2026 17:51

Regulator says verifiable safety measures are ‘critical’ to the online service’s

Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DAISE is pressing play on a new era of beauty, extending the excitement of its first-ever Mystery Dollface Blind Box collection into Roblox through an immersive collectible experience

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Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 officially launches on August 20 after server maintenance. Here is when Fortnite downtime begins and ends, and when the new Fortnite Override season goes live in every major region.

Fortnite Gem Hours goes live today for the final day of Sprite Spree Week. For 24 hours, players will have an increased chance of finding Gem Sprites throughout the battle royale map. This is also your last opportunity to collect Chapter 7 Season 3 Sprites before Fortnite Override begins on August 20. Here is when…