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400 Staff Cut, Now MindsEye Flies Fans In for Free
Build a Rocket Boy is flying fans to Edinburgh for a free playtest weekend. The 400+ employees it laid off over the past year aren't laughing.
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MindsEye Studio Blames Sabotage, Then Fires 170
Build A Rocket Boy reportedly cut roughly 170 employees in its third round of layoffs, leaving about 80 staff. This comes weeks after management released an in-game mission dramatising their conspiracy theory about corporate sabotage.
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MindsEye Studio Secretly Spied on Staff at Home, Union Claim
Forty Build a Rocket Boy employees signed a collective grievance after discovering surveillance software had been secretly installed on their work devices, allegedly recording keystrokes, screen activity, and microphone audio in their own homes.
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IO Interactive Dumps MindsEye, Kills Hitman Crossover
IO Interactive has cut ties with Build a Rocket Boy, handing full publishing control of MindsEye back to the developer. The Hitman crossover mission announced last June is gone with it.
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MindsEye CEO Claims Espionage Proof, Axes More Staff
Mark Gerhard says Build a Rocket Boy now has 'overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage' behind MindsEye's dismal launch. He's also firing more people.
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