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VR platform Rec Room to shut down in June 2026

Social VR gaming platform Rec Room has announced its closure on June 1, 2026.

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VR Hit Rec Room Shutting Down Because It's Not "Sustainably Profitable"

VR hit Rec Room is unexpectedly shutting down, and its developers say it's because they haven't figured out how to make the game profitable.

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UGC Game Rec Room Shutting Down, Some Assets Being Acquired by Snap

The creators of Rec Room, a Roblox-style game with VR support, were once valued at $3.5 billion, but the game will be taken offline in June. The post UGC Game Rec Room Shutting Down, Some Assets Being Acquired by Snap

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Virtual hangout game Rec Room is shutting down in June

Rec Room is a free to play social hangout space available for both VR and standard gaming, and unfortunately it's going to be shutting down. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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Rec Room shutting down after failing to become 'sustainably profitable'

'Our costs always ended up overwhelming the revenue we brought in.'

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Here's Another Major PS5, PS4 Game Getting Delisted Soon

Rec Room goes offline on 1st June. The PS5, PS4 social game Rec Room has joined the list of titles about to be delisted from the PS Store, as confirmed by developer Against Gravity. The game will go offline on 1st June 2026, at which point Rec Room will be rendered unplayable, and the online servers turned off. The studio will slowly take steps to wind down the title's premium currency purchases and creator options in May, but already, the ability to make a new account has been removed. Read the

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VR Social Game Rec Room Is Shutting Down on its 10th Anniversary: 'Our Costs Always Ended Up Overwhelming the Revenue We Brought In'

Rec Room — the virtual reality social club where you play games, hang out in the locker room, customize your appearance, and party with friends — is shutting down on its 10th anniversary.

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150 million users later, Roblox competitor Rec Room is shutting down

Rec Room, a Roblox-like social gaming platform that lets users create games and experiences for others to play, is shutting down on June 1st. Despite reaching more than 150 million players and creators and, at one point, being valued at $3.5 billion, the company says in a blog post that "we never quite figured out how to make Rec Room a sustainably profitable business" and that "our costs always ended up overwhelming the revenue we brought in." The company also notes that "with the recent shift

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Three More Games Have Been Suddenly Delisted On Xbox In Recent Weeks

To go with the other titles we mentioned earlier this month. It's been a while since we last highlighted the delisted games for Xbox in June 2026, but at the time we only thought we'd be getting a few of them - Horizon Chase Turbo, Rec Room and Call of Duty: Warzone for Xbox One. All of those have now departed the Xbox Store, but we've also lost a few other games that weren't on the schedule to be delisted. The first of these is 2018's Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, which received mixed revi

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