Escape room games have certainly come a long way from Escape: The Bathroom. Escape room games mostly started off as little flash games on sites like Newgrounds and Addicting Games. More recently ...

I’ve been in the mood for a good puzzle game. No, that’s not accurate enough. If a good puzzle game came to my door and proposed marriage, I would blow up my life and career for it the same way that ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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 games are adventure games that require skill, strategy, problem-solving and quick thinking in order to escape from a confined space on time. Each game has a different background story and the ...

Being locked in a room and challenged to complete a series of devious puzzles created by a an all-seeing, all-hearing mastermind doesn't really sound like heaps of fun. In fact, numerous horror films ...

The Cube Escape/Rusty Lake series has long been a site favorite, but the new Cube Escape: Paradox entry is perhaps the most ambitious of all, including a 20-minute short film alongside two surreal ...

Prison Island, which promises a combination of classic escape room puzzles and obstacle course challenges, opened earlier ...

For a fee, you and a handful of friends, or coworkers, can escape from a medieval torture chamber, or a CDC laboratory, or “The 80s.” The question is, why do we look for situations to escape from? In ...