Roblox: the children’s game platform with ‘Nazi sex parties’

Online gaming giant under fire over explicit content and use of ‘child labour’

A scene from a Roblox game
Latest figures show Roblox has around 50m daily users
(Image credit: Roblox)

An online gaming platform popular used by millions of children across the world is hosting virtual Nazi sex parties featuring bondage and strippers, an investigation has revealed.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.