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It's even enviable how stubborn they are: the creator of MindsEye continues to believe in enemies who ruined his game and fires even more people

Its even enviable how stubborn they are the creator of mindseye continues to believe in enemies who ruined his game and fires even more people

The studio Build a Rocket Boy — founded by former GTA lead Leslie Benzies — is still laying people off after the flop of MindsEye. Eight years of development, about £233M invested and only ~160k copies shifted; bluntly, it’s a disaster. Before release the team blamed a paid-troll campaign; once the game hit the market they added "internal saboteurs" to the list of suspects. Management now promises to produce evidence of espionage — timing and specifics remain unclear, and one can’t help but wonder whether this is a defense, a diversion, or something in between.