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…MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy (BARB) have reportedly laid off around 170 of their remaining 250 staff in yet another round of cuts. The move leaves them with a studio of…
…There's been no official announcement regarding the layoffs from BARB at the time of writing (Engadget has reached out to the studio for comment and we'll update this post if…
…Kotaku reports that 170 employees were let go, leaving about 80 staff at the studio. Affected roles include technical level design, audio design, and QA. Members of BARB's social media team…
…Andrej Barovic May 6, 2026 11:32 am Image via Build A Rocket Boy Build A Rocket Boy (BARB), the studio behind last year’s spectacular catastrophe MindsEye , has apparently gone through…
A group of unionised staff at MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy are taking legal action against the studio, claming that management's installation of surveillance software on their work devices violated…
…own this narrative" about the alleged sabotage, he planned for BARB to use some of the names of those the studio believe sabotaged the game into an upcoming spy mission. This mission…
…From that point in the mission, you dress up as a masked DJ who seems a thinly-veiled dig at somebody the studio bosses have beefed with . This grants you access to…
…interview with GamesBeat , BARB CEO and CTO Mark Gerhard said MindsEye will soon receive a multiplayer update, as well as a new mission called Blacklist in which the studio will "share some…
…It provided BARB marketing, distribution, localisation, and customer support for MindsEye, but not funding. "We're not going to turn into the Volkswagen of publishing overnight," IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak told…
Build a Rocket Boy, developers of MindsEye , and the publishing arm of Hitman studio IO Interactive have announced the end of their publishing marriage on the ill-fated action game. Build a…