MindsEye Co-CEO Alleges €1 Million Was Spent To Sabotage The Recreation

MindsEye co-CEO Mark Gerhard has alleged in an inside assembly with Build a Rocket Boy staff that they’ve “caught the guys” who sabotaged MindsEye in an alleged €1 million+ marketing campaign.

In the assembly, which occurred in late January and was despatched to Insider Gaming on the situation that the video not be made public, Gerhard opened the decision by saying they “caught the guys who’ve been sabotaging MindsEye.”

He alleged that the corporate behind the marketing campaign was a “very big American company,” however that “it’s probably not the company you’re thinking of.”

Gerhard alleged that the smear marketing campaign had a finances of over €1 million spent in 2025, and that the “big American company” allegedly paid the UK-based firm ‘Ritual Network’, who he claims are “”a bunch of gangsters”, to hold out the sabotages. According to Gerhard, the corporate has been paying a number of influencers, together with ‘Cyberboi’ (an influencer Gerhard not too long ago threatened with a Cease and Desist through Discord), three journalists, and Build a Rocket Boy staff, to hurt MindsEye and Build a Rocket Boy’s status.

In the assembly, Gerhard alleges that every one of those people “will all be served in person, criminal complaints, shortly,” and that the prison costs are for “espionage, sabotage, and criminal interference.”

“Everyone who’s involved has real problems, including the company behind it. This is the start of our comeback,” he mentioned.

Ritual Network Denies The Allegations

Insider Gaming contacted the UK-based firm ‘Ritual Network’ for remark concerning the allegations, to which they replied:

“Ritual Network is a creator support platform and is not involved in the matter you referenced. We are not aware of any legitimate legal action involving Ritual Network and have not been provided with any evidence supporting these claims. Any suggestion that Ritual Network is connected to these allegations is incorrect.”

When Insider Gaming requested Build a Rocket Boy for touch upon the allegations Mark Gerhard made within the assembly, a Build a Rocket Boy spokesperson mentioned:

“We don’t comment on leaked internal communications. Sadly, we do have evidence that there has been a coordinated campaign to purposefully and maliciously damage Build A Rocket Boy’s reputation and undermine confidence in MindsEye. We are working with our legal team and taking steps to address this.”

Following the allegations made within the assembly, Gerhard went on to say, “The way we win as a business is through the quality of our games, through the love, the passion that we put into MindsEye.”

They Are Going To Put The Alleged Members In Mindseye

He continued, “Given this has happened to us, I’m gonna own this narrative. We will use these people, these names and these facts for our own fun. We’re gonna put some of these names into our upcoming spy mission.”

Insider Gaming understands that MindsEye’s upcoming spy mission will likely be a reused model of the now-cancelled ‘Hitman’ mission introduced in June 2025, as they separate from IOI Partners as its writer.

“And let’s have some fun with it,” mentioned Gerhard.. “Let’s inform the neighborhood the story earlier than it even performs out in court docket. So, you already know, I feel this isn’t us being the sufferer.

“We’ve taken a couple of punches. We’ve kept turning the other cheek while we got our house in order. And now it’s time to start judoing this right back at them. And, you know, so let’s have some fun with it. At the end of the day, we’re storytellers, we’re game makers.”

They Are Tracking Employees

The assembly then moved to Gerhard explaining why Build a Rocket Boy had not too long ago rolled out an “enhanced cybersecurity software” to staff with out their information. Insider Gaming understands that this software program is named ‘Teramind’, and in line with one supply, was rolled out to staff’ PCs with out their information.

Teramind is an worker monitoring and cybersecurity platform that tracks consumer exercise, together with keystrokes and display screen behaviour, in an try to trace insider threats.

“It leads me to the next point. You know, I know there’s been a rollout of some enhanced cybersecurity software that I think has caused quite a lot of confusion, upset, perhaps even mistrust,” mentioned Gerhard.

He continued to say that the explanation why the cybersecurity measures have been rolled out was to “see the IT team periodically try and improve our security measures,” and that he hates “the fact that we even have to monitor in the first place. And, you know, I think it goes without saying that we can trust 99.9% of this business. The problem is it’s the one. It’s the 1%. That is the problem. And, you know, the next 90 days for this business are absolutely critical.”

Gerhard added that he hopes the cybersecurity measures could be faraway from staff’ computer systems inside the subsequent three months, however he takes “full responsibility” for a way the software program was rolled out and poorly communicated.

The assembly ended with Mark Gerhard saying that he believes February 4th is a “defining chapter” for the sport, as the sport will run as a stay service. But burdened that the decision was to share the “huge news” that these concerned within the alleged sabotage marketing campaign had been caught, and that attorneys will “have served them or serve in the process of serving them.”

Gerhard concluded, “You guys will get a fair chance to have your game seen and enjoyed by players without the manipulation that has happened and the criminal behaviour that has happened. And yeah, please bear with us guys in terms of the additional cybersecurity controls It’s only there because of what we’ve been through. And I want to make sure that I can protect you guys going forward. And no one in the team is able to sabotage your work, your careers and your studio”

Insider Gaming requested Build a Rocket Boy for touch upon its cybersecurity measures however obtained the identical response as above.

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