MICROSOFT is warning Xbox owners that they’ll need to verify their age – or end up locked out from online features. Upset gamers have called it an “invasion of privacy” over the ...

A new policy for Xbox accounts is now requiring some users to verify their ages with the developer, with plans for the policy to be more widespread in the near future. Online privacy and content has ...

People started commenting about this on social media. For example, on X, users like Christina Tasty and Mike Brown shared screenshots of Steam and Xbox messages demanding age verification despite ...

Earlier this month, the United Kingdom rolled out the Online Safety Act, which is meant to force any platform or website that could feasibly host adult content to include some sort of age verification ...

Recap: Digital platforms across the United Kingdom are adjusting their operations after the country's new Online Safety Act came into force, with Microsoft's Xbox gaming service among the latest to ...

A widely shared Facebook post that criticises Britain's Online Safety Act and suggests the law makes it harder to use a Microsoft Xbox than enter the country is misleading.

Valve's Steam store will be complying (naturally) with the new age verification requirements in the UK Online Safety Act and ...

British Xbox players will need to prove they're adults or risk being locked out of online gaming features next year, as ...

MICROSOFT is warning Xbox owners that they'll need to verify their age – or end up locked out from online features. Upset gamers have called it an "invasion of privacy" over the rule change, which ...