Gunzilla salary accusations

Gunzilla Games is facing public accusations from current and former workers who say the studio missed salary payments for months. (gamesindustry.biz)(gamesindustry.biz) GamesIndustry.biz reported on April 9 that talent acquisition lead Anna Savina described “significant salary delays” before later saying her case had been resolved. The same report said former principal artists Oleksandr Linovichenko and Anton Kharyn said they were still owed pay for August and September work, and contractor Paul Creamer said he had not been paid since October 2025. (gamesindustry.biz)(gamesindustry.biz) The report split the complaints by office and contract type. It said Ukrainian staff described roughly six months without pay, some international contractors said they had been waiting since October 2025, and some workers in the United Kingdom and Germany were still unpaid for March work when the story published. (gamesindustry.biz)(gamesindustry.biz) The same reporting also raised pension issues in Britain. Workers told GamesIndustry.biz that Gunzilla deducted pension money from payslips, missed contributions between May and September, backpaid in October, and then made no further pension payments after November. (gamesindustry.biz)(gamesindustry.biz) Gunzilla disputed the broadest version of the claims after the first wave of reports. Rock Paper Shotgun said chief executive Vlad Korolev argued full-time employees’ salaries “have never been delayed by more than a week” and framed the accusations as a campaign by “haters,” while acknowledging payment problems for some contractors and saying the company was working through them. (rockpapershotgun.com)(rockpapershotgun.com) The dispute lands on a company with unusually high visibility for an independent game studio. Gunzilla publishes the shooter Off The Grid, runs offices in Frankfurt, Kyiv, and London, and says on its website that it was founded in early 2020 by chief executive Vlad Korolev and chief strategy officer Alex Zoll. (gunzillagames.com)(gunzillagames.com)(gunzillagames.com)(gunzillagames.com) Gunzilla also became the owner of Game Informer on March 25, 2025. The company said it bought the publication and brought back its original editorial team, while Game Informer editor-in-chief Matt Miller said the outlet would operate through Game Informer Inc. with “100 percent” editorial control over coverage. (gunzillagames.com)(gunzillagames.com)(gameinformer.com)(gameinformer.com) Off The Grid itself is still active on Steam during the payroll dispute. SteamDB showed the game at 8,801 concurrent players when its page was crawled on April 11, and listed an all-time peak of 15,247 players on March 21, 2026. (steamdb.info)(steamdb.info) The immediate question is whether the allegations stay confined to contractor disputes or expand into formal labor, pension, or payment claims across multiple countries. For now, the clearest public record is a stack of named employee accounts, one detailed trade report, and a company response that denies the worst of it. (gamesindustry.biz)(gamesindustry.biz)(rockpapershotgun.com)(rockpapershotgun.com)