Four months into relocating its legal headquarters to Nevada, Roblox has been sued in federal court.

The lawsuit alleges that the company put “profits over safety,” which led to a 12-year-old child, only identified by the initials B.M.D., becoming addicted to the online game.

Attorneys Chelsie Warner and Jennifer Hoekstra filed the complaint on behalf of the child’s father, Brandon Johnson, on Friday in Las Vegas.

Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite; Microsoft, the maker of the Xbox gaming console; and Mojang, a Microsoft subsidiary that publishes Minecraft, are also defendants in the complaint. According to Johnson’s lawsuit, those games were among the first the child played.

B.M.D., who lives in Missouri and began playing video games around the age of 5, “developed a disordered rel

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