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Zkuq on 10 October 2025
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JEMC said:

'Cheated and manipulated' MindsEye devs eviscerate studio bosses who blamed botched launch on 'saboteurs' and say they'll see them in court: 'The games industry is not the Wild West anymore'
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/cheated-and-manipulated-mindseye-devs-eviscerate-studio-bosses-who-blamed-botched-launch-on-saboteurs-and-say-theyll-see-them-in-court-the-games-industry-is-not-the-wild-west-anymore/
Current and former devs at Build A Rocket Boy (BARB)—the studio founded by former GTA producer Leslie Benzies and responsible for the disastrous MindsEye, released earlier this year—have published a scathing open letter to its leadership.

Many of the recent positive reviews for the game seem... peculiar, to say the least:

  • There's way more of them than in the past compared to negative reviews.
  • They seem AI-generated.
  • The reviewers have a good bunch of recorded playtime and don't necessarily praise the game to heavens. All good, right? Nope! Each reviewer has got all their achievements in the game at exactly the same moment.
  • They're all within a few days of each other.

This 100% looks like a scummy paid positive review campaign to me. Shame on the studio leadership, and shame on IOI, who published this, if this doesn't get remedied soon.