Issues proceed to sound not very okay at MindsEye builders Construct A Rocket Boy. Across the similar time as an ongoing redundancy course of has reportedly seen all 300 of the studio’s UK workers despatched emails informing them they’re prone to shedding their jobs, recreation director Leslie Benzies has allegedly instructed them BARB will in some way relaunch the troubled recreation.
Yeah, precisely. You what, Leslie? That is the identical Leslie who additionally reportedly blamed the rocky time MindsEye’s had following its launch on what IGN calls “inner and exterior saboteurs” in its newest report.
IGN’s report says at-risk emails have been issued to 300 UK-based staff. Some have additionally despatched to an unknown variety of workers at PlayFusion, a studio BARB acquired in December 2024, and which is meant to be releasing an FPS known as Ascendant this yr.
Whereas that is been happening, MindsEye director and ex-Rockstar president Leslie Benzies reportedly lastly gave his first tackle to BARB workers for the reason that recreation got here out by way of video name on July 2nd. IGN cite people who attended this chat as revealing that Benzies stated, er, some issues.
He apparently asserted that the studio will in some way rebound from its troubles and relaunch MindsEye. Benzies additionally allegedly made feedback about what IGN discuss with as “inner and exterior saboteurs” being an element in charge for each MindsEye and BARB’s issues.
In that case, to begin with sigh, and second, that sounds much like BARB co-CEO Mark Gerhard ended up attracting criticism for claiming there are “some individuals that do not wish to see Leslie or Construct A Rocket Boy to achieve success which are making a concerted effort to trash the sport and the studio” whereas speaking to followers on MindsEye’s official Discord server earlier this yr.
Like, come on lads, your staff have been arduous at work placing out speedy updates to try to repair the problems people have recognized with it that you would be able to simply patch out, a bunch of them reportedly is perhaps about to lose their jobs, and also you’re right here allegedly saying stuff like this?
This could be the second time the studio behind MindsEye has lower jobs this yr, assuming layoffs come to go. That February spherical of layoffs affected a nonetheless unspecified variety of workers.
How would you relaunch a recreation after parting methods with a minimum of among the individuals you’d want to tug off a Cyberpunk 2077-esque redemption arc? Beats me, however then once more, a big-brained exec I’m not.
