Hitman studio IO Interactive and MindsEye studio Construct a Rocket Boy have formally ended their partnership.
After shopping for itself out from Sq. Enix and going totally unbiased in 2017, IO Interactive‘s publishing plans took a step additional in 2024 when it introduced IOI Companions, a brand new enterprise that will see it publishing video games from different builders.
The primary sport revealed underneath the IOI Companions label was MindsEye, the debut sport from former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies‘ studio Construct a Rocket Boy.
When MindsEye was launched final June, nonetheless, it suffered a disastrous launch with social media being flooded with movies of the sport’s technical points and bugs. The scenario deteriorated to the extent that PlayStation began refunding a number of gamers. The sport’s Metacritic rating presently stands at 38 for the PC model and simply 28 for the PS5 model, making it the bottom rated sport on Metacritic in 2025.
Now, in a joint assertion, IOI Companions and Construct a Rocket Boy have introduced that their publishing collaboration formally ended as of Monday, with Construct a Rocket Boy “assuming sole publishing tasks going ahead”.
“IOI Companions’ involvement with MindsEye involves an finish, apart from any important transitional capabilities required to switch publisher-of-record standing to Construct A Rocket Boy,” the assertion reads.
“Construct A Rocket Boy will assume sole publishing tasks going ahead, making certain continuity for the MindsEye group and all companions. IOI Companions and BARB are coordinating intently to make sure a seamless transition over the approaching weeks.”
Final 12 months it was introduced {that a} Hitman mission deliberate as a crossover occasion with MindsEye was within the works. On account of the separation, this crossover mission has now been scrapped.
Earlier this month Construct a Rocket Boy introduced that it will be shedding extra employees, as its CEO Mark Gerhard advised “legal exercise”, together with espionage and sabotage, performed an element within the sport’s downfall.
“Over the previous months we’ve been working with exterior companions and authorized advisors to research the legal exercise that occurred round our launch,” he wrote on the time.
“That work has taken far longer than anticipated, nevertheless it has now resulted in overwhelming proof of organised espionage and company sabotage affecting MindsEye. As a result of this matter is shifting towards prosecution, we can not share the total particulars publicly but.
