"With the best games of the year duly noted (yours and ours), I'd like to highlight some of the work we've done covering them. Reviewing the top-performing articles that we published in 2025, I see a portrait of a conflicted year: plenty of great works and games that captured the imagination and the world's attention, but also growing anxiety about their place in the real world, and the political circumstances they reflect."
"My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world The Guardian covered Roblox a lot in 2025, mostly from the perspective of child safety. As Sarah Martin discovered in this article, it is extremely easy to get into inappropriate situations and chats in this free-for-all of a game platform, which has more than 150m daily users (most of them children). I am no fan of Roblox and don't let my own kids play it,"
2025 delivered celebrated games alongside growing unease about their real-world impacts and political resonances. Child-safety concerns dominated coverage of Roblox, where Sarah Martin found it extremely easy to encounter inappropriate situations and chats on a platform with more than 150 million daily users, most of them children. Parents are advised to supervise play and lock down parental controls if allowing children to use the platform. Other pieces described compulsive engagement with simple games such as Baby Steps, where players spent more than 12 hours pursuing repetitive in-game challenges. Readers were thanked and asked to support continued journalism, and anticipation built for Grand Theft Auto 6's release in November 2026.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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