{"id":561680,"date":"2026-05-02T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561680\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:35:12","slug":"ps5-gigaflop-mindseye-gets-a-permanent-price-reduction-free-update-and-ps-plus-premium-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561680\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Gigaflop Mindseye Gets a Permanent Price Reduction, Free Update and PS Plus Premium Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PS5<\/a><\/p>\n

Build a Rocket Boy, the bizarre Scottish studio behind 2025\u2019s gigaflop MindsEye<\/a>, is not giving up. You\u2019ve got to give the company some degree of credit for that.<\/p>\n

For starters, it\u2019s permanently reducing the price of the game to $34.99\/\u00a329.99. The Deluxe Edition will drop to $47.99\/\u00a334.99. And there\u2019s now a full two-hour trial for PS Plus Premium<\/a> members to try.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also continuing to iterate on the panned open world, this week with the release of a free new mission named BLACKLISTED.<\/p>\n

From what we understand, this was originally intended to feature Agent 47, as you may recall Hitman<\/a> maker IO Interactive published the original game. But it\u2019s since severed all relationships with the studio<\/a>, so the aforementioned skinhead has been replaced with a buxom badass named Julia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Those of you who\u2019ve really been paying attention will know that Build a Rocket Boy has been accusing \u201cexternal saboteurs<\/a>\u201d of ruining the reputation of MindsEye. And this particular mission is supposed to expose that.<\/p>\n

But having watched a few playthroughs on YouTube<\/a>, we don\u2019t think it does anything of the sort. There are some vague references to the \u201cRitual Network\u201d, a real-life influencer talent agency accused of working with content creator Cyber Boi on attacking the title.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also one section where you\u2019ll tail a DJ wearing a mask who bears a passing resemblance to the aforementioned YouTuber, but that\u2019s about it. No shocks; no wild revelations.<\/p>\n

One thing we should note here is that the new mission only lasts about 45 minutes and you can\u2019t save your progress during it. There are checkpoints if you die, but if you quit the game or power down your console, then you\u2019ll inexplicably have to start the mission from scratch.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in a press release, CEO Mark Gerhard seemed to suggest this is just the beginning of MindsEye\u2019s post-release support:<\/p>\n

\u201cBLACKLISTED marks the first new story campaign for MindsEye since launch, and we\u2019re excited to welcome players back to Redrock City to experience it in a new way. Rather than traditional DLC, BLACKLISTED is delivered through our user-generated content platform ARCADIA, which is built into MindsEye.\u201d<\/p>\n

We must admit, the more this author learns about the game, the more he wants to play it. But even with this new price point, it\u2019s still about ten times too expensive to take a punt.<\/p>\n

[source youtube.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Build a Rocket Boy, the bizarre Scottish studio behind 2025\u2019s gigaflop MindsEye, is not giving up. You\u2019ve got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83637,59,83639,112,86,56,54,55,1232],"class_list":["post-561680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-build-a-rocket-boy","tag-gb","tag-mindseye","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}