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MindsEye is a glitchy, incoherent mess I wouldn't recommend to anyone—and it might also be my favorite game of 2026

Look, it's complicated.

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MindsEye's first major update, 'Blacklist', really will be used by former GTA lead to 'share some of the evidence of the sabotage’ that apparently made it bad

Leslie Benzies believes "the natural course of justice" will prevail.

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Hitman's planned crossover with MindsEye is cancelled as the publishing deal with IO Interactive is officially over

Build a Rocket Boy says it will continue to publish updates and expansion on its own.

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I desperately want the Just Cause creator's new open-city game to be great, but I'm not convinced by its latest trailer

Samson has a great premise, but the new footage leaves me with concerns.

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MindsEye studio claims it now has 'overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage' that somehow made its game bad, and also it's laying off more people

This would all be kind of amusing if it wasn't for the facts that more game developers are losing their jobs.

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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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"It would've been impossible to make a good game": MindsEye CEO and Rockstar vet blamed for impossible design demands, on "temporary leave" as company forces monitoring software on devs in hunt for "saboteurs" blamed for flop

Not a lot of good news coming from Build A Rocket Boy

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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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MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its 'most significant post-launch update' is now live and an expansion is coming later this year

None of this makes sense to me, but it's sure interesting to watch.

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MindsEye studio boss threatens legal action against YouTuber as co-CEO Leslie Benzies denies Epstein allegations: 'I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island'

The "cease and desist" demand was posted to the MindsEye Discord just minutes after Cyber Boi's video went live.

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Top three games that failed miserably in 2025

Massive failures.

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MindsEye tops Metacritic’s worst games of 2025 list, raising hard questions for developers

The hype and nostalgia lessons the industry can’t ignore.

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You can try the worst game of 2025 for free right now – go on, you know you want to

You can play a bit of MindsEye for free thanks to a new starter pack version.

TechRadar

MindsEye developer offers a starter pack that lets you try the beleaguered action game's best mission for free, though you should imagine air-quotes the size of skyscrapers around the word 'best'

The free demo coincides with a new patch.

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Take-Two boss says 'we've never regretted' delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while

Strauss Zelnick says delays are "painful" but companies who don't postpone games that need more work do so "at their peril."

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MindsEye loses its free-roam mode, gains a dodge roll, and rebrands itself as 'Powered by Arcadia' whatever that means

We'll miss you, Can't Drink Dust Guy.

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The MindsEye fallout continues as axed staff allege crunch, mismanagement, and a total lack of direction: 'Leslie [Benzies] never decided what game he wanted to make'

"And it does mess with you. You really do start to see the morale go down, the little arguments starting to happen."

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GTA lead's big gamble turned worst game of 2025 contender was such a disaster that nearly 100 devs are demanding change and apologies for "unbearable levels of overtime" and "mishandled" layoffs

The fallout from MindsEye's disastrous launch continues

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MindsEye's response was so mindblowingly negative its star thought 'I might never work in another game again'

Alex Hernandez and the MindsEye team had a rough go of the game's launch.

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MindsEye devs drop a massive patch amid ‘relaunch’ efforts, but I feel no amount of updates will save this sinking ship

It's time we all moved on from this wreck.

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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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MindsEye's messy launch shenanigans has IO Interactive hesitant to play publisher for more games in the future: 'That remains to be seen'

IOI Partners might be a one-and-done situation.

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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?

Destructoid

MindsEye devs’ CEO blames ‘sabotage’, vows to relaunch 2025’s worst game to date

The GTA killer's creator thinks it was unjustly killed itself, but that just seems like a copout.

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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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