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Austin Wood

"It would've been impossible to make a good game": MindsEye CEO and Rockstar vet blamed for impossible design demands, on "temporary leave" as company forces monitoring software on devs in hunt for "saboteurs" blamed for flop

MindsEye character holding arms out .

MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy is trying to focus on fixing the game, which fell on its face last year, but can't escape controversy. CEO and noted ex-Rockstar veteran Leslie Benzies has temporarily stepped down from the company at a turbulent time which includes mandatory surveillance of studio staff, stubborn insistence that the widely panned game's launch was sabotaged, and claims that Benzies himself greatly contributed to production issues that ultimately crippled MindsEye.

A new report from GamesIndustry.biz collects testimony from representatives and employees (some anonymous) of Build A Rocket Boy. Benzies taking "temporary leave" and handing the CEO chair to co-CEO Mark Gerhard, per an official statement, is just the tip of this iceberg.

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