A little more than a week after unionized members of the Build a Rocket Boy staff took legal action against the studio's leadership for installing spy software on work devices that allegedly violated data protection laws, Chris Wilson, a former animator who worked at the studio for the last six years and has worked in the video game industry for more than two decades has come forward to share just exactly what it was like working on MindsEye under former Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies and his co-chief executive officer, Mark Gerhard. In a massive interview with Kotaku, Wilson is very […]

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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 officer of BaRB, Mark Gerhard, believes MindsEye's launch was, undoubtedly, the worst launch in video game history. "We know we […]

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Build a Rocket Boy, the studio co-founded by Mark Gerhard and Leslie Benzies, the latter of which was a long-time producer at Rockstar who worked on several Grand Theft Auto titles, has announced another round of mass layoffs after its debut project, MindsEye, was one of 2025's catastrophic disasters. In a statement posted to the studio's LinkedIn page, Gerhard calls the layoffs "a deeply painful decision," and that "letting colleagues go is never something any leader wants to do, and I know the impact this will have on individuals, families, and our wider community." That said, in the face of […]

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