What's going on at Build A Rocket Boy? Layoffs, legal action, and more
Build A Rocket Boy, the studio behind MindsEye, has conducted a third round of layoffs, reducing its staff to 80 employees. This follows previous rounds of redundancies and ongoing legal action from employees and the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain over alleged mistreatment and the installation of surveillance software without consent. The studio's leadership has attributed the game's poor performance and studio issues to corporate sabotage, a claim that led to the termination of their partnership with publisher IO Interactive.
- Entities
- Person: Chris Wilson
- Person: Gerhard
- Person: Spring McParlin-Jones
- Game: MindsEye
- Topic: Employee Monitoring
- Topic: Layoffs
- Company: Build a Rocket Boy
- Topic: Corporate Sabotage
- Person: Leslie Benzies
- Company: Io Interactive
- Company: Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain
- Topic: Legal Proceedings
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