Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse developers are trying really, really hard to make sure you know it’s a metroidvania without using the word ‘metroidvania’

Despite the first trailer for Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse looking very much like a classic exploration-focused platformer, the involvement of Dead Cells developer Evil Empire had some folks going into a “Oh god, I hope it’s not a roguelike” panic. Konami tried to assuage those fears with the label “2D exploration action game,” which only highlighted…

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Survival shooter Road to Vostok ‘secured the entire production budget for this game for years and years to come’ within 24 hours of its Steam early access launch

Road to Vostok, the hardcore survival shooter developed by Finnish former army officer Antti Leinonen, has built up a lot of hype since Leinonen released its first demo in 2022, thanks in no small part to how terrifying it is to be shot at by its bandits while you’re scavenging for soup cans. That hype,…

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Gunzilla CEO denies delaying payments to ‘full-time official employees,’ says contractors complaining about going months without being paid are just ‘haters’ who don’t know what it takes to run a business

XGunzilla Games, the developer of the NFT battle royale Off the Grid and, more recently, resurrector of Game Informer, is facing multiple allegations that it has failed to pay some of its staff, in some cases for months. Gunzilla CEO Vlad Korolev acknowledged the claims in a message posted to X, writing, “to not disrupt…

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