Gunzilla Games, the studio behind NFT-infected battle royale game Off The Grid, have been accused of owing a marketing company over $100,000 and is facing more allegations from workers that their pay has been delayed. Gunzilla have also faced two instances of legal action over alleged unpaid debts to other conmpanies, who petitioned UK counts to consider pushing the studio into enforced liquidation.
Earlier this month, Gunzilla CEO Vlad Korolev claimed in response to allegations of unpaid wages from former staff that the studio’s full-time official employees’ salaries “have never been delayed by more than a week”, while conceding that “some payments may be scheduled in a way that works for the company’s cash flow”.
That brings us to a new report from PC Gamer, who cite an anoymous source as having revealed that Gunzilla rely heavily on contractors, with them allegdly making up more than half of the workforce at Gunzilla’s Ukraine studio, potentially including some high-level jobs. The same source claims that many Gunzilla contractors worldwide haven’t been paid since 2025. Just last week, technical animator Akhil Chinnabathini and lighting artist Marko Dijan added their names to the list of contractors who’ve accused Gunzilla of not paying them on time.
Going beyond debts to individual workers, since the start of this year Gunzilla have been the subject of two winding-up petitions in the UK. These legal processes basically see a person or company, when owed £750 or more by another company, attempt to prove that the latter lacks the means to pay the debt, in which case a court can order the company who owe the money be forced into liquidation. The liquidation process would then see any debts paid in full, in part, or not at all, depending on how it plays out.
Gunzilla have faced two of these, one from 3D art production and photogrammetry studio The Vertex Guild and one from UK government tax body HM Revenue and Customs, with PC Gamer publisher Future PLC supporting the latter. According to PC Gamer, The Vertex Guild’s petition is still active, while the Future-supported one has been withdrawn after Gunzilla paid the company what was owed. Both petitions’ inferred case statuses, according to UK high court litigation database Caseboard, are listed as “Case Concluded (Withdrawn)”.
Meanwhile, PC Gamer cite sources claiming an unnamed marketing company contracted by Gunzilla in 2024 are currently owed more than $100,000 for that work.
I’ve asked Gunzilla for comment.
