{"id":77348,"date":"2026-05-05T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77348"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:36:32","slug":"mindseye-dev-reportedly-laid-off-170-of-250-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77348","title":{"rendered":"MindsEye Dev Reportedly Laid Off 170 Of 250 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Build A Rocket Boy, the developer of MindsEye<\/a>, has reportedly let go a large number of employees its latest round of layoffs. Although the exact number is currently unknown, it’s “roughly 170 members,” according to Kotaku<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of the now- or soon-to-be former employees have shared the news on LinkedIn<\/a> and Discord<\/a>. If the 170 estimate proves to be accurate, that would leave Build A Rocket Boy with approximately 80 staff members left out of the 250 that were in place prior to the layoffs.<\/p>\n

Former Rockstar Games executive Leslie Benzies founded Build A Rocket Boy in 2016, and his previous experience with the Grand Theft Auto franchise gave MindsEye a lot of hype heading into its release last year. However, MindsEye was one of the worst-reviewed games<\/a> of 2025 and its poor reception led to layoffs<\/a> shortly thereafter. Bizarrely, Build A Rocket Boy co-CEO Mark Gerhard shared his belief that a concerted effort to trash the game<\/a> and corporate espionage were responsible for the game’s shortcomings.<\/p>\n

In April, the IWGB Game Workers Union started a legal action<\/a> on behalf of Build A Rocket Boy’s developers that accused the company of installing surveillance software<\/a> on employees’ devices without their knowledge. Build A Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Build A Rocket Boy, the developer of MindsEye, has reportedly let go a large number of employees its latest round of layoffs. Although the exact number is currently unknown, it’s “roughly 170 members,” according to Kotaku. Many of the now- or soon-to-be former employees have shared the news on LinkedIn and Discord. If the 170…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":77350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77351,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77348\/revisions\/77351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}