Overview
- Former lead cinematic animator Chris Wilson went public with a detailed account of MindsEye’s development, citing months of crunch and saying the rollout of Teramind monitoring was the breaking point.
- Wilson said executives presented “evidence” of an organized sabotage campaign as hate mail read from a CEO’s inbox, casting doubt on claims that outsiders plotted to damage the studio.
- Build A Rocket Boy sent two statements to press that rejected misconduct, asserted its security measures were lawful, and replaced an initial CEO-attributed email with a revised communications note.
- Unionized staff and the IWGB have filed legal action and a collective grievance alleging the company installed Teramind on work devices without consent; the software can log keystrokes and record screens and microphones.
- Wilson said a canceled Hitman crossover was reworked into the new Blacklisted mission and that some staff learned of the latest layoffs from a LinkedIn post rather than an internal meeting.