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.

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GAME MindsEye
COMPANY Build a Rocket Boy
COMPANY Io Interactive
COMPANY Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain