Vampire Survivors News

'What a publisher should do is, first of all, make genuine games': Vampire Survivors creator says he started his own publisher because too few 'try and let the developer realize their vision'

In 2021, game developer Luca Galante released Vampire Survivors as a diversion from his soul-hollowing day job of working on a mobile gambling game, inadvertently birthing a nascent genre propelled by the force of silly Italian names and millions upon millions of dead bats. In a recent interview with our colleagues at GamesRadar, Galante said the years that followed his unforeseeable success have left him with a blunt assessment of the games industry:..
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Vampire Survivors developer Poncle on what it takes to be a good publisher: "Not everything can be a breakout hit"

Getting your game a publishing deal has never been an easy thing to do. Right now, it's especially hard given that for many publishers, if it doesn't seem like a guaranteed hit, it likely isn't something they'll take on. This is something that Vampire Survivors developer Poncle, or rather the actual person, Luca Galante, takes great issue with, and in a recent interview he spoke more broadly of his issues with publishers, and his thoughts on now being one.

Vampire Survivors' long-anticipated online mode is finally here, sort of. Developer Poncle announced at the end of this week that online multiplayer has been implemented in the game's beta branch...
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Vampire Survivors latest Beta adds online play and more new content

Vampire Survivors is finally getting the promised online mode, with a Beta now available to try that also includes some new content.

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Vampire Survivors' long-awaited online mode is finally playable, so get moving

Do you remember when Vampire Survivors first launched? It was practically all I played on my Steam Deck for a month, getting lost in the gothic fantasy bullet hell for hours on end. I was intent on collecting every item and making each run better than the last. However, I never got to play with friends. My wife's no gamer and my daughter had just celebrated her first birthday, so was probably a little young. However, developer poncle has now launched its first online mode in a public beta, so you bet I'll be hitting up my online friends to jump back in.

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