Overview

• On June 23, Build a Rocket Boy commenced a 45-day UK consultation for possible redundancies affecting over 100 employees.
• MindsEye’s June 10 launch drew heavy backlash, holding a Metacritic score of 38 and a “Mostly Negative” Steam rating due to crashes, bugs and performance issues.
• Sony granted refunds to dissatisfied PlayStation 5 users, a rare move typically reserved for extreme launch failures.
• The studio invested an estimated $500 million in MindsEye and secured $110 million in Series D funding last year for its Everywhere metaverse platform.
• Build a Rocket Boy pledged to reallocate resources toward ongoing updates and performance optimizations for MindsEye despite the staff reductions.