Social VR gaming platform Rec Room has announced its closure on June 1, 2026. In a blog post, developer Rec Room Inc. said that despite the platform's success, it "never quite figured out how to make ...

If you've spent any time in virtual hangout spaces over the last decade, chances are you've heard of Rec Room. The social gaming platform became a staple for millions of players who used it to hang ...

“Despite this popularity, we never quite figured out how to make Rec Room a sustainably profitable business,” the company said in a statement. “Our costs always ended up overwhelming the revenue we ...

Investor FOMO following Roblox’s blockbuster public debut is pushing venture capitalists who missed out on that gaming giant to invest in competing platforms. Today, Rec Room announced it has raised ...

Rec Room is slated to shut down servers on June 1st, 2026 at 12:00 PM PT (local time here), the studio announced in a blog post on Monday night. “Over the past decade, Rec Room grew into something ...

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Rec Room gift cards in a retail kiosk in Seattle. The social gaming platform, which is shutting down June 1, experienced a previously unreported brute-force attack on its friend-finder feature earlier ...

The developers of Rec Room have announced that the game will be shutting down this year. While Rec Room had a good amount of popularity, its run will come to an end a decade after it got its start.