Epic Games will require Australian players to confirm they’re 18 or older before downloading or buying R18+ rated titles on the Epic Games Store, starting September 9.<\/p>\n
According to a report by PocketGamer.biz<\/a>, the company said the move brings it in line with Australia’s online safety code<\/a> covering access to adult content. Games players already own, and anything rated below R18+, won’t be affected.<\/p>\n The checks will run through Epic’s existing Kids Web Services (KWS) system, which is adding several further third-party verification options, giving players the choice to verify by a selfie (Yoti), credit card (Stripe), or government-issued ID check (Veriff).<\/p>\n A fourth option tied to bank verification through ConnectID is due to follow later in September.<\/p>\n Epic said data collected through any of these methods will only be used to verify a player’s age and will be gathered independently of KWS.<\/p>\n Last month, Xbox similarly began rolling out age verification for users in Australia<\/a>. Users must verify their age to play R18+ games on the Microsoft and Xbox Store for console and PC, in line with Australian regulations.<\/p>\n Microsoft began implementing age verification in the UK<\/a> in July 2025, shortly after the OSA was introduced<\/a>. Valve also introduced age verification for Steam users in the UK<\/a> to enable access to mature content on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Epic Games will require Australian players to confirm they’re 18 or older before downloading or buying R18+ rated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-610971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}