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Game Developers Protest Mass Layoffs as Xbox, Ubisoft, Other Studios Face Growing Backlash

Video game developers worldwide protest mass layoffs at Xbox, Ubisoft, and Build a Rocket Boy, highlighting the gaming industry's labor crisis.

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MindsEye developers protest against a fan event their own studio is hosting

Another bizarre twist in the Build a Rocket Boy saga.

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Take-Two CEO seems to take shot at MindsEye studio, says 'the folks at Rockstar seem to be able to make these massive hits' while former Rockstar employees 'haven’t been able to do it'

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said Grand Theft Auto 6 reviews will be just as important as the scores for all the other Rockstar Games titles.

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MindsEye’s salvaged Hitman DLC cuts Agent 47, and seemingly a good chunk of its staff, too

Sabotage continues.

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MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy lays off even more people

Is this sabotage?

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I played the MindsEye mission about the alleged game saboteurs, and it sucks so bad

The mission is dull and witless, and the promised "evidence" of sabotage against developer Build a Rocket Boy utterly fails to materialize.

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"Overwhelming evidence of organized espionage": MindsEye CEO blames flop launch on "corporate sabotage" and commits to "prosecution" amid more layoffs

"Today is a very difficult day"

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Build A Rocket Boy dumpster fire flares up in exciting new ways as its co-CEO reportedly claims the 'guys who've been sabotaging MindsEye' have been identified—and will be demonized via an in-game spy mission

You can say and do all kinds of things when you're running a company.

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Somehow, MindsEye is not dead: A new update promises to improve performance by removing 'ambient rubbish'

A beefy new patch went live today, and Build a Rocket Boy says another one is in the works.

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Former Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption lead's huge flop MindsEye was never "supposed to be a GTA killer," fellow Rockstar Games veteran says, and "would have gone a lot better" if it were cheaper and less buggy

Could the shooter ever have done better?

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MindsEye boss reportedly blames its failure on 'saboteurs' and says a re-launch is in the works, even as the entire development studio is at risk of layoff

The weirdness continues.

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MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it's probably not great that the studio's chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned

The MindsEye saga gets weirder.

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Exec on former GTA 5 lead's new open-world game MindsEye says negative reactions have come from a "financed" and "concerted effort to trash the game and the studio"

"Doesn't take much to guess who"

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Build a Rocket Boy, founded by former Rockstar North president, has laid off an undisclosed number of staff

Build a Rocket Boy, developer of the upcoming sci-fi game Mindseye, has confirmed layoffs.

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We can finally stop asking what this former GTA dev is working on, because Everywhere gets its closed alpha next week

The Everywhere closed alpha is less than a week away

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Everywhere is not a blockchain game, but creating the "Roblox for older players" faces other challenges

Everywhere promises the world, but only time (and support) will tell if it can deliver

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Upcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2026 and beyond

Here's every new PS5 game coming in 2026 and beyond that you need to have on your radar, from exclusives like Marvel's Wolverine to AAA titans like GTA 6

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