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Have You Lost Your Child to Video Games?

Families across the country are taking the makers of Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, and Call of Duty to court, alleging these games were deliberately engineered to keep kids playing. If your child’s gaming led to a suicide attempt, addiction treatment, leaving school, or counseling, your family may be owed significant compensation.

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Legal Criteria

See If Your Family Qualifies

for Cash Compensation.

Your child may qualify if they played 15 or more hours a week and showed signs of gaming addiction for at least 12 months. Current claims are reviewing the following harms.

Suicide or suicide attempt

Including the loss of a child to suicide

Inpatient addiction treatment

A hospital or residential program for gaming addiction

Leaving school

Dropped out of high school or college, or moved to homeschooling

Counseling and school support

Outpatient counseling, an IEP, or private tutoring

Physical injuries

Orthopedic injuries or seizures tied to gaming

Gamer’s rage, depression, or anxiety

Including a drop in grades due to gaming

Requirements: Your child must have been born between 1993 and 2019, and you must have access to their gaming account or play history (Xbox, PlayStation, Roblox, Steam, or another platform). Your family cannot already be working with an attorney on this.

The Design

It’s Not Your Fault.
It’s the Game Design.

These games aren’t just entertainment. Lawsuits allege they are built around the same “variable reward” psychology found in slot machines: loot boxes, battle passes, daily streaks, and limited-time events designed to keep your child playing and paying. Federal regulators have already forced game makers to pay hundreds of millions of dollars over tactics used on kids.

The Hook

Variable Reward Design

Loot boxes and random prize drops reward your child on an unpredictable schedule. That is the same mechanic that keeps gamblers at a slot machine, and there is always one more match to play.

The Harm

Lost Sleep, Lost School

Daily login rewards and limited-time events punish kids for logging off. 41% of teens who play say gaming has hurt their sleep.
The Result

A Recognized Disorder

The World Health Organization now classifies gaming disorder as a medical condition. A review of 53 studies put its worldwide prevalence at about 3%.
of U.S. teens play video games, and 4 in 10 play every single day

Settlements & Lawsuits

$585M & Counting

In Government Settlements With Video Game Companies

$520 Million

The maker of Fortnite agreed to pay $520 million to settle two federal cases. The first was a $275 million penalty for collecting personal information from young players without a parent’s consent, the largest penalty the FTC had ever obtained for breaking one of its rules. The second was $245 million in refunds to families, a record for a gaming case. Regulators alleged Epic used “dark patterns” to trick kids into in-game purchases, including charging players for pressing a single button while waking the game from sleep mode.

$35.8 Million

Roblox settled child safety claims with three states in the span of a week: $12.5 million to Nevada, $12.2 million to Alabama, and $11.1 million to West Virginia. As part of the agreements, Roblox committed to verify the ages of all users and limit adults’ ability to contact users under 16. Part of the money goes to child safety education. West Virginia’s attorney general said the platform “was not a safe place for kids.”

$20 Million

The company behind Genshin Impact agreed to pay $20 million after the FTC alleged it used deceptive tactics to hide the real cost of loot boxes and the true odds of winning rare prizes. Regulators also alleged it violated a children’s privacy law. Under the settlement, the company must stop selling loot boxes to players under 16 without a parent’s consent. The company disputed many of the allegations but agreed to settle.

$10 Million

Roblox agreed to pay $9.8 million to the Kansas Attorney General’s office over three years and fund a $500,000 public awareness campaign on online child safety. The settlement requires age checks for all users, expanded parental controls through a linked parent account, and default chat limits that keep users under 18 from chatting with unknown adults. Announcing the deal, Attorney General Kris Kobach said, “Parents should not have to compete with predators and poorly designed platforms just to keep their kids safe online.”

Video Game Addiction Cases (JCCP 5363)

Families’ addiction lawsuits against Roblox, Epic Games, Microsoft, and other game makers are coordinated before a single Los Angeles judge. The companies have asked the court to dismiss the cases on free-speech grounds, with a hearing set for October 21, 2026. No trial date has been set and no settlement has been announced, which means families can still come forward. Federal courts twice declined to combine these cases nationally, so the Los Angeles proceeding is where they are moving forward together.

State of Texas v. Roblox

Texas became the third state to sue Roblox over child safety, following Louisiana, which filed the first state lawsuit in August 2025. In March 2026, a Texas judge allowed the state’s core claims to move forward. Tennessee, Iowa, Florida, and Nebraska have their own child safety lawsuits against Roblox still in court.

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