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Former Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies raises $40.8m toward open-world Sci-Fi title "EVERYWHERE"

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"EVERYWHERE" is shaping up to be a title with big scope, huh?

The year prior, he announced the formation of Build a Rocket Boy, an Edinburgh and Budapest-based games studio which has already hired over 130 people including former GTA developers, including GTA V programmer Colin Entwistle, lead cinematics animator Felipe Busquets, music director Craig Conner and audio director Matthew Smith.

According to a new report in The Telegraph, Build a Rocket Boy has now secured investment from companies including Chinese gaming giant Netease.

In its latest funding round the studio raised £32m, according to data from the consultancy Beauhurst. This includes investment from Cayman fund Makers and New York cryptocurrency investor Galaxy Interactive.

Build a Rocket Boy's first game is open-world title Everywhere, which Benzies told Venturebeat in 2017 would be unlike anything he's done before.
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Slayven

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The pitch for the game is super generic and light, perfect for VCs
 
Pancracio17

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GTA clone but taking inspiration from... everywhere? Is this like the new Star Citizen.
 
MrMysterio

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Seems they invested in the ex-management of the Rockstar dev team rather than in the game concept.
 
Nista

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I just hope they left their management style behind, else we may have another Michel Ansel style story in a couple years.
 
CountAntonio

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Embrace RP and racing communities. Just give people a cool world and a lot of tools to host their own servers. I'd say skip single player all together and throw those resources into making what GTA Online could have been.
 
Protome

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I feel like half the game devs/artist I've worked with in Edinburgh all work there now lol
They've been scaling up hard.
 
flaxknuckles

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This game has been in development since slightly before 2017. I wonder when we are finally gonna see it.
 
dreamfall

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Super excited for Benzies ! With the Rockstar suit behind him, he's going to change the open world genre for the best I imagine. Can't wait to see what his team comes up with, it'll be such a nice change of pace!
 
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