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 ...

After waking up in the manor’s basement, you discover that you’ve aged at an abnormal rate. As you fight to survive, clues ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Escape rooms have become hugely popular in recent years, especially attracting millennials looking for unique evenings ...

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 ...

What they are: Escape rooms are timed, puzzle-based adventures where players work together to solve clues and achieve a goal, often escaping a themed space. Why they’re booming: Driven by immersive ...

Doors of Divergence is a new immersive, time-travel-themed escape room in Charlotte's Belmont neighborhood. Why it matters: Charlotte's appetite for experiential entertainment keeps growing, from ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...