A number of workers have stated they’re leaving the studio.
Construct A Rocket Boy (BARB), the developer of the extensively maligned action-adventure sport MindsEye, seems to be shutting down. A number of workers wrote on LinkedIn that their time on the studio is “coming to an finish,” and Kotaku reported that BARB is about to shut its doorways for good.
“With a really heavy coronary heart I elevate my inexperienced banner, together with the remainder of my colleagues at Construct a Rocket Boy. I’m ‘Open to Work’ actively searching for a brand new journey,” BARB’s principal expertise acquisition associate Dan Hawkins wrote, implying that all the studio’s workers are out of a job. “I might be seeing BARB by means of until the very finish, serving to wrap issues up right here within the HR division.”
MindsEye had a disastrous debut in June 2025, with PlayStation stated to have issued refunds to some gamers who checked out the sport in its preliminary bug-riddled state. A spherical of layoffs adopted quickly after the Grand Theft Auto-esque sport’s launch whereas BARB founder (and former GTA producer) Leslie Benzies reportedly blamed its woes on “saboteurs” inside and outdoors the corporate.
The studio launched an growth for MindsEye this spring. It contained a mission it claimed would expose some proof of the purported conspiracy that ruined the sport’s possibilities for fulfillment. This had no juicy particulars about stated “scandal” and was only a humdrum riff on a Hitman mission, based on Rock Paper Shotgun. The addition of multiplayer and a Rocket League-esque soccer mode this summer season did not precisely flip round MindsEye‘s fortunes both.
BARB grew to become the only writer of MindsEye in March after parting methods with IOI Companions, an arm of 007 First Gentle developer IO Interactive. Additional rounds of layoffs passed off that month and in Could.
Earlier this 12 months, dozens of workers accused the studio of spying on them. In line with the IWGB Recreation Staff Union, BARB “administration put in invasive Teramind surveillance software program onto their gadgets with out their information” and went past “monitoring staff’ productiveness or safeguarding the corporate’s safety by recording people of their houses and with out their consent.”
