TX House Speaker Burrows Targets Violent Games Advertised to Children
Interim change issued for TX House
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows issued a supplemental interim change today targeting gaming platforms with violent or sexually explicit content available to Texas children.
The announcement specifically mentions the game Roblox. A video game platform where 56% of users are under the age of 18:
The release above includes screenshots available of a game mode in Roblox that simulates reenacting school shootings.
Active Shooter Studios (A.S.S.), the developer behind the school-shooting maps, has had their game modes and maps banned on Roblox since 2025 and has resorted to hosting their games on private servers behind a paywall in order to play.
Kotaku (April 2025):
The studio, which boasts a Discord server containing over 500 members, has resorted to using private Roblox servers to host their games behind a paywall. The idea is that this makes it harder for Roblox Studio to find and remove the games, all of which reportedly break many of Roblox’s community guidelines and rules.
A search on Roblox’s website shows a notable amount of shooting simulators still being advertised on their platform:
