District 9 director's studio Gunzilla accused by former staff of not paying employees "for many months"

"Upper absorption promised that these delays were impermanent and increasing pains tied to being a caller institution with a caller game", claims erstwhile animator

Gunzilla Games, the workplace co-founded by District 9 manager Neill Blomkamp and developers of NFT-infected conflict royale crippled Off The Grid, person been accused by a fig of erstwhile employees of failing to wage unit for months connected end. One erstwhile animator astatine the workplace has besides accused them of attempting to "silence" workers attempting to get the wealth they assertion to beryllium owed.

As reported by the likes of VGC and Insider Gaming, among the erstwhile unit accusing Gunzilla of failing to wage unit are Paul Creamer - an animator who near the workplace this March - and endowment acquisition pb Anna Savina.

Both made their accusations connected LinkedIn. "I dedicated 3 years of my nonrecreational beingness to Gunzilla Games. I built teams, recovered apical talent, and lived the company's ngo 24/7," Savina wrote. "Today, I'm forced to look a important outstanding indebtedness that covers respective months of my nonrecreational life." She claimed unit successful her presumption are facing "significant wage delays with nary wide timeline", with reach-outs to Gunzilla's CEO and CFO having yielded nary effect and "zero circumstantial information" respectively.

"I'm not the lone one. I cognize galore talented colleagues who are successful the aforesaid "fog". We’re not asking for bonuses, we’re demanding what we person earned," Savina added. She appears to person since updated the station to enactment that "the concern regarding my idiosyncratic substance has been resolved".

Creamer, meanwhile, alleged successful his post: "Gunzilla Games has not paid its employees for galore months but inactive expects them to work. I person personally not been paid since October 2025. Some person had their wage delayed adjacent longer. I foolishly worked for 3 other months (October, November and December) with assurances that delays successful outgo would beryllium resolved. Upper absorption promised that these delays were impermanent and increasing pains tied to being a caller institution with a caller game."

He went connected to impeach Gunzilla CEO Vlad Korolev of "not being truthful" and besides alleged that "now the institution ignores our questions and removes our posts astir what’s going connected trying to soundlessness us".

I've reached retired to Gunzilla Games for comment.

Off The Grid launched into aboriginal entree successful 2024, hitting Steam successful July past year. "Off The Grid is not an NFT game," Gunzilla assertion successful an FAQ connected the game's website. "It’s a conflict royale crippled with an optional NFT element. If you privation to effort retired NFTs, you can; if you don’t privation to, you don’t person to. It’s wholly up to the subordinate however they privation to play the game, and the crippled is playable without dipping into NFTs."