The Latest Breaking News from Luca Galante

Some but not all Vampire Survivors spin-offs are 'Survivatons,' its creator has decided, and one will be revealed soon

Plus there's a small new DLC add-on for Vampire Survivors on the way.

PC Gamer · Jun 6

Vampire Survivors' new Legacy of the Blood Moon DLC was initially supposed to be a "little add-on" to the roguelike's last update, but it ended up "being way too big"

Expect a small DLC with a "very low price"

GamesRadar · Jun 6

"If we can have this beautiful machine ... that's what I want to see": The dev of this Xbox Game Pass hit is working on 15 projects and opening 2 new studios

Poncle, the developer behind the acclaimed Xbox Game Pass hit Vampire Survivors, is working on 15 projects and expanding with two new studios.

Windows Central · Apr 22

"I felt like playing 30 hours of story mode was actually the tutorial": Too many RPGs and JRPGs end after their combat really gets good, Vampire Survivors creator says, which is where the roguelike formula is so great

"I mean, it comes from someone who made Vampire Survivors. Of course I think it's the natural course of a game."

GamesRadar · Sep 14, 2025

"I see a lot of publishers I don't like": Vampire Survivors creator made his own publisher to "share the luck" and says too many companies "try to exploit the platforms just to make money"

"I definitely see the publishing business more from the point of view of making games"

GamesRadar · Sep 13, 2025

Vampire Survivors kicked off a game development gold rush, but has a legitimately new genre emerged between the cash-ins?

"The first thing I noticed was the literal ripoffs": Luca Galante reflects on Vampire Survivors' landmark launch, and developers talk the birth of a new genre

GamesRadar · Apr 20, 2025

Vampire Survivors’ Castlevania DLC map is so big that I keep getting lost, but I'd do it all over again just to have Sonia Belmont's sonic whip

The DLC goes hard—there's no denying it.

PC Gamer · Nov 8, 2024

'Please try not to binge it': Vampire Survivors finally releases a Castlevania DLC with 20 new characters, 40 new weapons, and 'a monstrously large stage'

"The full-circle moment we've been waiting for."

PC Gamer · Oct 21, 2024

List of the UK's richest game devs and influencers puts Garry's Mod creator neck-and-neck with Rockstar founders, but the richest of all is a different pair of gaming brothers worth £12.5 billion

I would like to get £12.5 billion from gaming-related endeavors.

PC Gamer · Aug 17, 2024

From Big Macs to Baftas: the incredible story behind the hit video game Vampire Survivors

Luca Galante went from flipping burgers in Thornton Heath to accidentally creating a gaming sensation in one of the few true indie developer rags-to-riches tales

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2023