The debacle called MindsEye has been easily forgotten, but the management of the Build a Rocket Boy studio claims to have caught the culprits behind the smear campaign against their game.
MindsEye was the worst game of 2025 and it wasn’t hard to see why. A bunch of comical bugs, a bunch of disjointed mechanics, an empty world and boring gameplay made that game a bad product.
However, Team Build a Rocket Boy’s leadership insisted that it was against them is running a smear campaign and that journalists and influencers are paid to express negative views about the game. Last year, Rocket Boy claimed that the hacks were coming from Rockstar as revenge against former Rockstar president Leslie Benzies, who founded Build a Rocket Boy. However, now they have changed the story.
Still, the management of the studio responsible for MindsEye claims that there was a targeted smear campaign against the game. However, as reported by Insider Gaming, the studio now claims that “a large American company” paid more than one million euros to the British company Ritual Network in order to order the defamation of the game through it. The company is described as a “handful of gangsters”. They say that three journalists and several influencers, including prominent Cyber Boi with 59,000 subscribers on YouTube, received money to defame MindsEye.
Build a Rocket Boy co-founder Mark Gerhard claims he will studio to sue the said company and everyone involved in allegedly defaming MindsEye.
By the way, the leader of Build a Rocket Boy, Leslie Benzies was mentioned in the so-called “Epstein Papers” where one of the victims of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein accused him of sexual harassment. Benzies has spoken out about these accusations and has denied them. He says that he was in a consensual relationship with the person who accuses him of molestation, and that he never met Epstein or was on his island.