Hitman creators from IOI announced that their publishing deal with Build a Rocket Boy is over. The one and only Mindseye game is now fully under BARB control.
Mindseye was the worst game of 2025 and led to financial issues for the studio and the publisher. Despite it was founded by the GTA veteran Leslie Benzies and costs over $200m to make, Mindseye was barely even a game. A few hours of repetitive gameplay, broken open world, poor shooting, and tons of bugs.
The studio have created the sandbox environment Everywhere with Unreal Engine and wanted it to compete with Roblox and UEFN. The similar (but better optimized) project Core got a very moderate success but Everywhere wasn't even released.
Mindseye made with the sandbox tools was mediocre at best, but BARB blamed: spies, media conspiracy, and Rockstar sabotage. Not their own mismanagement! And now the studio is left with unreleased sandbox app and a failed game.
#IOI@GameDEV
#Sandbox@GameDEV
#NoCode@GameDEV
Mindseye was the worst game of 2025 and led to financial issues for the studio and the publisher. Despite it was founded by the GTA veteran Leslie Benzies and costs over $200m to make, Mindseye was barely even a game. A few hours of repetitive gameplay, broken open world, poor shooting, and tons of bugs.
The studio have created the sandbox environment Everywhere with Unreal Engine and wanted it to compete with Roblox and UEFN. The similar (but better optimized) project Core got a very moderate success but Everywhere wasn't even released.
Mindseye made with the sandbox tools was mediocre at best, but BARB blamed: spies, media conspiracy, and Rockstar sabotage. Not their own mismanagement! And now the studio is left with unreleased sandbox app and a failed game.
#IOI@GameDEV
#Sandbox@GameDEV
#NoCode@GameDEV
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