MindsEye director reportedly says the studio will relaunch the game, as around 300 staff are at risk of being laid off

Leslie Benzies besides allegedly yelled astatine immoderate saboteur clouds

Things proceed to dependable not precise good astatine MindsEye developers Build A Rocket Boy. Around the aforesaid clip arsenic an ongoing redundancy process has reportedly seen each 300 of the studio's UK unit sent emails informing them they're astatine hazard of losing their jobs, crippled manager Leslie Benzies has allegedly told them BARB volition someway relaunch the troubled game.

Yeah, exactly. You what, Leslie? That's the aforesaid Leslie who besides reportedly blamed the rocky clip MindsEye's had pursuing its motorboat connected what IGN calls "internal and outer saboteurs" successful its latest report.

IGN's study says at-risk emails person been issued to 300 UK-based workers. Some person besides sent to an chartless fig of unit astatine PlayFusion, a workplace BARB acquired successful December 2024, and which is expected to beryllium releasing an FPS called Ascendant this year.

While that's been going on, MindsEye manager and ex-Rockstar president Leslie Benzies reportedly yet gave his archetypal code to BARB unit since the crippled came retired via video telephone connected July 2nd. IGN mention folks who attended this chat arsenic revealing that Benzies said, er, immoderate things.

He seemingly asserted that the workplace volition someway rebound from its troubles and relaunch MindsEye. Benzies besides allegedly made comments astir what IGN notation to arsenic "internal and outer saboteurs" being a origin to blasted for some MindsEye and BARB's problems.

If so, archetypal of each sigh, and second, that sounds akin to BARB co-CEO Mark Gerhard ended up attracting disapproval for claiming determination are "some radical that don't privation to spot Leslie oregon Build A Rocket Boy to beryllium palmy that are making a concerted effort to trash the crippled and the studio" portion talking to fans connected MindsEye's authoritative Discord server earlier this year.

Like, travel connected lads, your workers person been hard astatine enactment putting retired accelerated updates to effort and hole the issues folks person identified with it that you tin conscionable spot out, a clump of them reportedly mightiness beryllium astir to suffer their jobs, and you're present allegedly saying worldly similar this?

This would beryllium the 2nd clip the workplace down MindsEye has chopped jobs this year, assuming layoffs travel to pass. That February circular of layoffs affected a inactive unspecified fig of staff.

How would you relaunch a crippled aft parting ways with astatine slightest immoderate of the radical you'd request to propulsion disconnected a Cyberpunk 2077-esque redemption arc? Beats me, but past again, a big-brained exec I americium not.