Vlad Korolev is CEO of Gunzilla.
Vlad Korolev is CEO of Gunzilla.
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Gunzilla raises $25 million to make triple-A games with ex-Crytek leader

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gunzilla Games has raised $25 million to make triple-A projects. It was started by former Crytek Kyiv studio leader Alex Zoll and serial entrepreneur Vlad Korolev, and it already has 70 employees.

Zoll and Korolev funded the company through GameGroove, a holding entity that pooled their resources to invest in a number of companies (Gunzilla included). Gunzilla is based in Los Angeles and has studios in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Frankfurt, Germany. The team is working on an unannounced shooter.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.