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Do you remember that one time when someone used Half-Life 2's Wallace Breen model to get around those pesky age-verification systems introduced under the UK's Online Safety Act? If so, you'll be glad to know that the unconventional method of using in-game characters instead of handing over your biometric data still works just fine, as recently proven by Digital Artist and huge Yakuza/Like a Dragon fan known only as Tamzyn.
In a tweet that went viral over the past 24 hours, Tamzyn demonstrated how age-verification systems can be bypassed using a model of Like a Dragon's legendary protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, with the face-recognition system proving to be a total baka.
After importing the character's model into what appears to be Blender, the artist was able to tilt his head up, down, left, and right in line with the system's prompts, fooling it into thinking Kiryu was a real human. In the end, much like the HL2 example mentioned earlier, the method worked flawlessly, with the age verification successfully passed to the delight of thousands of users.
Previously, gamers also used the faces of Zbigniew Stolarski from Arma III, Death Stranding's Sam, and even Team Fortress 2's Heavy in order to skip age-verification systems:
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