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Build a Rocket Boy CEO Says They're Adding a New Mission to MindsEye That Will Include Evidence of Alleged Sabotage
The new Blacklist mission will add in-game evidence as the studio says 2 governments are investigating Gerhard’s sabotage claims.
- Rocket Boy CEO Mark Gerhard announced a new mission for MindsEye that will include evidence supporting his repeated claims the game was sabotaged by bad actors.
- Gerhard alleged a "concerted effort" to "trash the game and the studio" over the last year by internal and external saboteurs who paid influencers and deployed spam bots.
- Steam data shows MindsEye received only 89 new user reviews in 30 days, earning a "mixed" 67 percent rating and a 39 Metacritic score.
- Authorities in both the U.S. and U.K. are investigating Gerhard's claims of criminal corporate espionage, while studio head Leslie Benzies has returned from an extended vacation.
- Currently recording 11 concurrent players on Steam, the developer plans to relaunch MindsEye and eventually ship a metaverse-like MMO called Everything.
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MindsEye will litigate its own launch 'sabotage' controversy in DLC form
MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy remains so convinced that corporate foul play contributed to the disastrous launch of its debut game that it’s now planning to prove it to its audience via in-game content. In a wide-ranging interview with GamesBeat, BARB CEO and CTO Mark Gerhard said MindsEye will soon receive a multiplayer update, as well as a new mission called Blacklist in which the studio will "share some of the evidence of the sabotage…
Build a Rocket Boy CEO Says They're Adding a New Mission to MindsEye That Will Include Evidence of Alleged Sabotage
Build a Rocket Boy CEO Mark Gerhard says that the studio is preparing to add a new mission to its game, MindsEye, which will include "evidence" supporting his repeated claims that the game was sabotaged by bad actors.
MindsEye Had "Without a Doubt, the Worst Launch in History," Says BaRB CEO, Still Claims Some of the Negativity was "Orchestrated"
If you turn the clock back two years to 2024, Build a Rocket Boy (BaRB) was known as the studio founded by former Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies, and with $110M raised in funding, it seemed poised to be the next big independent studio in the market. That's two years ago though. Now, it's known as the team behind MindsEye, one of the worst games to release in 2025, with one of the worst launches ever, and apparently, the co-chief executive offi…
MindsEye boss addresses “worst launch in history" as he says studio will share "evidence of sabotage" in-game
Mark Gerhard, CEO and CTO of developer Build A Rocket Boy, has addressed its controversial shooter MindsEye's rough start last year, calling it "without doubt, the worst launch in history". That's as he says the studio plans to share "evidence" of the "sabotage" Build A Rocket Boy bosses have repeatedly blamed for the game's woes in a future multiplayer update.
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