The Escape Room craze has really taken off (especially here in Los Angeles) and I couldn’t be happier about it. Getting a group of my friends together, locking ourselves in a room, and solving a ...

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. I don’t know CPR. I can’t tie a ...

Escape rooms have become hugely popular in recent years, especially attracting millennials looking for unique evenings with friends. But the interactive games, in which people are locked in rooms and ...

Humble Bundle is good for many things; raising money for charity, providing you with some big savings, and spotlighting more obscure games like Escape Simulator. This VR escape room game lets you and ...

Imagine this. It’s a rainy Saturday night, and you’ve got your pals over for some board game fun. You pull out an escape room in a box, and everyone is intrigued – it’s something different, exciting ...

With black hoods over their heads, five people trapped in a chain-link enclosure listen to an ominous monologue. “Hello, my delicious friends,” the voice purrs. “I’ve lived here for five years, and ...

Coin Crew Games was created with a love for play in physical, real-world spaces. Since the beginning, the local firm had a mission: to prove those boxy arcade games never went out of style. Video ...

IT WAS undeniably tragic when five teenage girls died in an escape-room fire in the Polish city of Koszalin on January 4th. But many in the industry thought it was an accident waiting to happen. Most ...

You and 10 other people are locked in a room. Words, numbers and pictures are scrawled on the walls, objects scattered. A disembodied voice announces there are 60 minutes remaining to escape. A frenzy ...