Gaming startup Rec Room, known for its cross-platform social app where players can build and share games and experiences, announced a sweeping personnel reduction. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining ...

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 ...

Rec Room has laid off "roughly half" of its staff as "a business necessity". The remaining team will focus more on Rec Room Originals. Among those let go are employees who have worked at Rec Room for ...

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.

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 27, 2025 at 10 ...

With nearly every tech exec suddenly talking about the metaverse, Rec Room has been thrust into the limelight. Thirty-seven million players use the company’s social virtual reality app to create and ...

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 ...

Rec Room Arts may be Houston’s smallest theater, but they have big plans. Artistic Director Matt Hune says that he co-founded the 60-seat Rec Room in 2016 intending to build a new generation of ...

Gaming startup Rec Room, known for its cross-platform social app where players can build and share games and experiences, announced a sweeping personnel reduction. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle ...