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Granzella CEO Takeshi Nagura has published an official press launch the place he confirmed that the corporate couldn’t pay its workers as a consequence of poor enterprise efficiency between 2023 and 2025. The CEO additionally guarantees to resolve the difficulty and full the due funds by the spring season of 2026.
Nagura added that Granzella lacked the required capital wanted to pay workers as a consequence of poor efficiency from Might 2023 till Might 2025. Following consultations with the workers, the corporate deferred their salaries for Might, June, and August 2023. It claimed that it managed to finish funds to workers who nonetheless remained within the firm in Might 2025.
Among the workers had since left Granzella to ascertain their very own corporations as a consequence of this problem. The excellent salaries owed to them have but to be utterly resolved, and Nagura guarantees to complete it by the spring season.
The publication of this press launch adopted a major news report on the previous day. The Kanazawa Labor Requirements Inspection Workplace filed prices in opposition to Granzella, Gyakuten Video games, and [R]studio to the native public prosecutor’s workplace after receiving claims that 46 workers didn’t obtain 9 months’ price of salaries between 2023 and 2024, totaling over 18 million yen (or over $115,000 with the trade price in early January 2026).
Beforehand, in October 2022, Granzella introduced two new releases for the R-Kind sequence. It managed to launch the improved capturing sport R-Kind Ultimate 3 Advanced for PlayStation 5 in March 2023 as scheduled. Nonetheless, R-Kind Techniques I-II Cosmos had a prolonged delay from its unique launch window of Summer season 2023. The latter turn-based technique sport is as a substitute slated for release for the PS5, PS4, Change 2, Change, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC on March 12, 2026.
