{"id":50141,"date":"2026-05-06T05:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50141"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:36:35","slug":"mindseye-dev-reportedly-laid-off-170-of-250-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50141","title":{"rendered":"MindsEye Dev Reportedly Laid Off 170 Of 250 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4691956-mindseye.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s &#8220;roughly 170 members,&#8221; according to Kotaku.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the now- or soon-to-be former employees have shared the news on LinkedIn and Discord. 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<p>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 of 2025 and its poor reception led to layoffs shortly thereafter. Bizarrely, Build A Rocket Boy co-CEO Mark Gerhard shared his belief that a concerted effort to trash the game and corporate espionage were responsible for the game&#8217;s shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/mindseye-dev-reportedly-laid-off-170-of-250-employees\/1100-6539796\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4140,7303,19821,17250,3465],"class_list":["post-50141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-dev","tag-employees","tag-laid","tag-mindseye","tag-reportedly","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}