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

MindsEye co-CEO Mark Gerhard has alleged in an internal meeting with Build a Rocket Boy employees that they have “caught the guys” who sabotaged MindsEye in an alleged €1 million+ campaign.

In the meeting, which took place in late January and was sent to Insider Gaming on the condition that the video not be made public, Gerhard opened the call by saying they “caught the guys who’ve been sabotaging MindsEye.”

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

Gerhard alleged that the smear campaign had a budget of over €1 million spent in 2025, and that the “big American company” allegedly paid the UK-based company ‘Ritual Network’, who he claims are “”a bunch of gangsters”, to carry out the sabotages. According to Gerhard, the company has been paying several influencers, including ‘Cyberboi’ (an influencer Gerhard recently threatened with a Cease and Desist via Discord), three journalists, and Build a Rocket Boy employees, to harm MindsEye and Build a Rocket Boy’s reputation.

In the meeting, Gerhard alleges that all of these individuals “will all be served in person, criminal complaints, shortly,” and that the criminal charges 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 said.

Ritual Network Denies The Allegations

Insider Gaming contacted the UK-based company ‘Ritual Network’ for comment about 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 asked Build a Rocket Boy for comment on the allegations Mark Gerhard made in the meeting, a Build a Rocket Boy spokesperson said:

“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 in the meeting, 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 be a reused version of the now-cancelled ‘Hitman’ mission announced in June 2025, as they separate from IOI Partners as its publisher.

“And let’s have some fun with it,” said Gerhard.. “Let’s tell the community the story before it even plays out in court. So, you know, I think this is not us being the victim.

“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 meeting then moved to Gerhard explaining why Build a Rocket Boy had recently rolled out an “enhanced cybersecurity software” to employees without their knowledge. Insider Gaming understands that this software is called ‘Teramind’, and according to one source, was rolled out to employees’ PCs without their knowledge.

Teramind is an employee monitoring and cybersecurity platform that tracks user activity, including keystrokes and screen behaviour, in an attempt to track 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,” said Gerhard.

He continued to say that the reason why the cybersecurity measures were 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 can be removed from employees’ computers within the next three months, but he takes “full responsibility” for how the software was rolled out and poorly communicated.

The meeting ended with Mark Gerhard saying that he believes February 4th is a “defining chapter” for the game, as the game will run as a live service. But stressed that the call was to share the “huge news” that those involved in the alleged sabotage campaign had been caught, and that lawyers 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 asked Build a Rocket Boy for comment on its cybersecurity measures but received the same response as above.

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NOTE: The story was updated to add clarity surround ritual network and the “big American company”