Escape rooms have gotten massively popular, and they’re a unique experience, standing out from outings at the movies or museums. They can be an amazing time, but the expectation that you’ll have to ...

Locked in a room with 60 minutes to escape by solving a series of puzzles, escape rooms are the live-action gaming trend taking over the world. But forget jigsaws and crosswords -- the games have gone ...

If you liked Escape Room, you’ll like Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. That may seem to be an obvious statement, but there is a welcome consistency with this second go-around of Sony’s accidental ...

While real-life escape rooms are always going to be the most immersive experience, when it comes to affordability and accessibility, virtual escape games always take the cake. No matter what console, ...

In the “mission control room” at Packard 124, Stanford Escape — the team of computer science, electrical engineering and math majors behind Stanford’s first in-house escape room — huddles around a ...

Perhaps one of the reasons for the genre’s boom in recent years has to do with its accessibility. While escape room board games offer challenging puzzles that tabletop veterans are looking for, these ...

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 ...

There are two big names when it comes to video game escape rooms, and they’re remarkably similar ones. First you have Escape Academy, a wonderfully bonkers college for escape room artists, with a ...