The rapidly evolving escape room industry is adopting practices from engineering, theater, and film–and coming up with some of its own. Imagine being locked in a roomful of strangers, where the only ...

Building an escape room with the capacity to challenge the best gamers from around the world is no small task. To create the challenges for the Escape Room World Championships in Budapest this weekend ...

In this week’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, the sequel to 2019’s hit thriller Escape Room, series main character Zoey (Taylor Russell) returns to confront the puzzle-orchestrating ...

An interactive art installation turns a live-action game into a disarming demonstration of social inequality. By Jillian Steinhauer I’m inside a room that feels simultaneously clinical and whimsical.

Dr. Scott Nicholson, the designer of the Red Bull Escape Room World Championship, has been researching the design and development of escape rooms and is Professor of Game Design and Development and ...