Rec Room is full of first-party adventures you can play with friends and randos alike. The social VR platform’s next big offering is already here in ‘Run the Block’, which has taken a number of cues ...

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.

Gaming experiences can be undermined, even ruined by bad behavior in text chat or forums. In voice chat and in VR, that bad experience is magnified and so much more visceral, so toxicity is amplified.