Jacob Diaz is the main character of MindsEye.
Jacob Diaz is the main character of MindsEye.
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IO Interactive teams with Build A Rocket Boy to publish MindsEye, after a ‘hell of a ride’

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hitman publisher IO Interactive is teaming up with developer Build A Rocket Boy — started by former Rockstar Games dev Leslie Benzies — to publish MindsEye, a cinematic action-adventure game.

IO Interactive spun out of Square Enix and set itself up a few years ago as an independent game development studio and publisher. Now the publisher side is announcing the agreement with Leslie Benzies’ Build A Rocket Boy, to publish and distribute MindsEye, the company’s highly anticipated story-driven action-adventure thriller created by the legendary game director.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.