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| Girls Make Games and PlayStation are backing a new Safer Play Online Initiative for kids, parents, schools, and community groups. |
By Juli Scarr
PlayStation and Girls Make Games announced a new Safer Play Online Initiative aimed at kids, parents, caregivers, schools, and community groups. The initiative is built around online spaces connected to gaming, including chat features, social tools, AI chatbots, harassment, privacy, and digital footprints.
Online Play Extends Past the Console
Kids don’t only run into online interaction through a game lobby anymore. It can carry over into group chats, social apps, livestreams, creator spaces, and other digital communities tied to the games they play. That broader online picture sits at the centre of this initiative.
Girls Make Games says the program will include workshops, media, and at-home activities. For families already trying to sort out where gaming ends and the wider online world begins, those workshops and at-home resources give them something more concrete to work with. Parents already working through those questions can also check out How to Talk With Your Kids About Gaming and the PlayStation Family App Guide for Kids and Parents.
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| This Girls Make Games graphic highlights four areas tied to safer online play: communication, boundary-setting, digital awareness, and empathy. |
A Familiar Topic for PlayStation’s Family Safety Push
This isn’t the first time PlayStation has spoken publicly about family safety and digital spaces. Earlier this year, Sony Interactive Entertainment published a broader update with Nintendo and Microsoft around player safety, parent controls, reporting tools, and industry cooperation. This Girls Make Games initiative sits within that wider safety work.
It also connects with PlayStation Talks Parenting, Play, and Digital Safety With Cat & Nat, where the conversation was already centred on family routines, visibility, and the tools parents can use day to day.
Workshops and Resources Are Still to Come
Right now, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Girls Make Games have outlined the subjects the initiative will cover, but they haven’t shared a public workshop schedule or a release timeline for the planned materials. More updates are still coming, and families are still waiting on details about when those workshops and resources will be available.
The initiative is aimed at families, schools, and community groups, and it is built around the parts of online gaming that now stretch past the console itself. Girls Make Games still hasn’t shared when the workshops will begin or when families will be able to access the resources.
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