Prominent VR social app Rec Room is getting full-body avatars soon, which will let users choose to either stick with the standard floating bean-body type, or go all-in with a fully-appendaged avatar.

Rec Room is full of first-party adventures you can play with friends and randos alike. The social VR platform’s next big offering is already here in ‘Run the Block’, which has taken a number of cues ...

The trust and safety team of social gaming platform Rec Room has seen tremendous results in reducing toxicity over the past 18 months. In this VB Spotlight, dive into the metrics, tools and strategies ...

Andrew Chavez as Juan and Gigi Chavez as Andrea in Rec Room's production of Danny Tejera’s Toros. Credit: Photo by Tasha Gorel What are these twenty-somethings supposed to do with their lives? In ...

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 ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Devin's Rec Room, a sober-active community gym, held its grand opening Thursday, March 27. Devin's Rec Room is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a community for people in ...

Seattle-based startup Rec Room, once valued at $3.5 billion, is laying off about half of its staff in a sweeping restructuring. Co-founders Cameron Brown and Nick Fajt announced the layoffs Monday in ...

The makers of the popular social app Rec Room filed a lawsuit in Seattle this week against a teenage user of the service, alleging that he has a long history of harassment and has created multiple ...

When a family of six from Miami built their dream vacation home in Aspen, Colo., they wanted their architect and designer to take play time very seriously. So Colin Gorsuch, then of Lake Flato ...

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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.

"Roughly half" of the team at social gaming platform Rec Room has been laid off. CCO Cameron Brown said he and co-founder and CEO Nick Fajt had "made the difficult decision to lay off roughly half the ...