Seattle-based startup Rec Room, once valued at $3.5 billion, is laying off about half of its staff in a sweeping ...

Rec Room, the social gaming platform once riding high on a $3.5 billion valuation (now that’s a price tag), is now laying off “roughly half” its team. That’s not a pivot—that’s a full-blown reset.

Investor enthusiasm culminated in December 2021, when the company raised $145 million at a $3.5 billion valuation. This ...

Nick Fajt, co-founder and CEO of Rec Room, in Seattle in 2017. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A major round of ...

Lakeland's Rec Room bar received approval to expand but must increase security measures. The approval mandates the bar hire off-duty police officers on weekend nights to address police activity ...

Gaming experiences can be undermined, even ruined by bad behavior in text chat or forums. In voice chat and in VR, that bad experience is magnified and so much more visceral, so toxicity is amplified.

With the colors of wooden beige, a deep stage with darkness upstage, and a three-piece band, Rec Room Arts does an incredible job with the 2007 Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening the Musical.