Former Rockstar North president and GTA series producer Leslie Benzies will use the funding for the development of his new game “Everywhere”.
Build a Rocket Boy is an Edinburgh and Budapest-based games studio, founded by Former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies in 2016, which has already hired over 130 people including former GTA developers such as programmer Colin Entwistle, lead cinematics animator Felipe Busquets, music director Craig Conner and audio director Matthew Smith. Firstly, the studio had a name Royal Circus Games, but Rockstar threatened legal action in 2019 over the studio’s name, claiming that Royal Circus Games’ acronym (RCG) was too close to Rockstar Games (RSG), so the name change was announced in October 2018.
Players are getting smarter and require more from their games, and we want players to have the real freedom to live in our worlds in the ways they want to. We’re aiming to offer a huge variety of game modes and styles that not only tell our stories but also enable players to live in the identities and adventures they most want to explore.
Leslie Benzies, Build a Rocket Boy’s founder
Now Leslie announces he has raised £32 million ($40.8 million) from Cayman fund Makers, New York cryptocurrency investor Galaxy Interactive and Chinese gaming giant Netease. Funding will be used for the development of studio’s first game – an open-world sci-fi title Everywhere. The studio wants to create a platform, where players can be entertained, and also entertain others while blurring the lines between reality, and a simulated world.
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