Dubai: An online gaming platform Roblox has been trending on search in the UAE and here’s why: people want to know if the ban on playing the game in the UAE has been lifted.

As gaming hits draw tens of millions of simultaneous players, Roblox engineers make sure the internet’s youth never deal with buffering.

A new report has uncovered a community of Roblox players who digitally re-create and “play” through real-life school shootings. Known as “Active Shooter Studios,” or A.S.S., the group has ...