{"id":1644341,"date":"2026-07-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uirF4EMMWxvhVJzxBcWZ8a"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:00:00","slug":"mindseye-has-multiplayer-and-a-grenade-football-mode-now-which-the-handful-of-people-still-playing-it-will-no-doubt-be-thrilled-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/mindseye-has-multiplayer-and-a-grenade-football-mode-now-which-the-handful-of-people-still-playing-it-will-no-doubt-be-thrilled-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"MindsEye has multiplayer and a grenade football mode now, which the handful of people still playing it will no doubt be thrilled to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite a poor reception<\/a>, weak sales, and losing publisher IO Interactive<\/a>, developer Build a Rocket Boy hasn’t given up on its open world shooter MindsEye<\/a>. Which might <\/em>be commendable, were it not for the multiple rounds of layoffs<\/a>, the wild conspiracy theories<\/a> emanating from its executives, and allegations from former workers that spy tech was covertly installed<\/a> on their machines.<\/p>\n

But whatever’s going on in and around the studio, MindsEye itself is still receiving updates. And the most recent update adds quite a lot of stuff, though whether it’s stuff everybody wants <\/em>is another matter.<\/p>\n

Described as “one of the biggest yet” by BARB in a Steam post<\/a>, Update 8 brings a major new component to MindsEye\u2014multiplayer. Specifically, it adds a team-based mode called “grenade football”, in which players apparently “swap their boots for launchers and bring the firepower to the pitch.”<\/p>\n

Contrary to what this implies, grenade football participants do not in fact wear the launchers on their feet (though that would arguably make for a more interesting spectacle). Instead, grenade football is basically Rocket League<\/a> without the cars, with players in red or blue jumpsuits running around a pitch blasting a giant ball at each other’s nets.<\/p>\n

There’s a video of grenade football in action below. Like so much else about MindsEye (certainly post-launch MindsEye) it looks very basic and rough around the edges. The ball, which is far too large to actually fit in the launchers, just kind of disappears into them when a player collects it, so reading where the ball is and who currently possesses it is tricky.<\/p>\n

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