Kaan Serin
Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.
Latest articles by Kaan Serin

World of Warcraft fans don't appreciate having to complete 19 quests about bees, for some reason: "I thought for sure I was done and then I'd get another quest to photograph 10 bees"
By Kaan Serin published
News A touch too much?

Ex PlayStation boss says "we've plateaued" on gaming tech, so hardware companies could at the very least make it all "cheaper and simpler"
By Kaan Serin published
News Shawn Layden doesn't think incremental upgrades are the way forward

Revenge of the Savage Planet dev says "if just the people who have already wishlisted" the game buy it in the next month, "you would get more DLC"
By Kaan Serin published
News A free Steam demo dropping next week should help

Battlefield 6 beta's real hero was one streamer who ran around rubbing his evil hands together and gleefully defibbing entire lobbies
By Kaan Serin published
News "I take resurrecting very serious"

Palworld might be making another play for Pokemon's crown, snapping up shares in a Japanese card game publisher while Nintendo's lawsuit rumbles on in the background
By Kaan Serin published
News The Palworld Trading Card Game?

Former FPS pro Shroud says he didn't truly appreciate how good Battlefield 6's beta was until he returned to Battlefield 2042: "Either 2042 is that bad or 6 is that good"
By Kaan Serin published
News Shroud likes almost everything about EA's newest blockbuster

Blizzard pumps the breaks on eating Marvel Rivals' lunch with attractive Overwatch 2 heroes, says the team still "loves oddballs" like Bastion and Winston
By Kaan Serin published
News "Heroes like Winston and Bastion are really important to our universe. They're what makes Overwatch Overwatch."

GTA San Andreas tech lead busts a widely believed myth, says the "Suicidal Pedestrians" are simply unaware of the water between them and their destination
By Kaan Serin published
News Grand Theft Mythbusters

As Mario Kart World and The Outer Worlds 2 grapple with $80 price tags, the much-expanded PowerWash Simulator 2 sticks with the original's price: "Clean out the dirt, not your wallet"
By Kaan Serin published
News Not bad for a new campaign, co-op, and some adorable pet cats

NetEase offers sage advice to Marvel Rivals players who can't log in on PC: keep hitting "Continue" while devs work "with Steam to resolve" the issue
By Kaan Serin published
News It's clobbering time (for the Continue button)

Assassin's Creed Shadows developers are focusing on improving "what we already have," but they're adding at least one new open-world activity in post-launch updates
By Kaan Serin published
News Ubisoft is far from done with Feudal Japan

Battlefield 6's much-requested Server Browser "is not being tested this week," but the beta is getting a cool Custom Search to prioritize your favorite maps and modes
By Kaan Serin published
News EA's letting you mix and match in the second beta weekend

Former PlayStation boss says Xbox Game Pass developers are "not creating value" and subscription models are a "danger"
By Kaan Serin published
News Shawn Layden has some heated words for Microsoft's subscription

As the wait for Haunted Chocolatier continues, this magical new shop sim with Dreamlight Valley and Hogwarts Legacy vibes is here to tide us over in a post-Stardew Valley world
By Kaan Serin published
News You're a magical innkeeper, Harry

"How do you even do this to a leaderboard of a popular game like Super Mario Bros?": Speedrunner beats the platformer's world record by 5 seconds, the biggest jump in over a decade
By Kaan Serin published
News "That was full autopilot... It doesn't feel real."

BioWare apparently wanted to make a Mass Effect-style remaster collection for Dragon Age, but EA's not too keen: "It's strange for a publicly traded company to basically be against free money"
By Kaan Serin published
News Ex-exec Mark Darrah says there was interest at the studio for a Dragon Age: Legendary Edition

Battlefield 6 stomps Call of Duty's Steam record with 520,000 concurrent players, but EA promises it's still working on those long "entry times"
By Kaan Serin published
News We're so back?

Battlefield 6's anti-cheat system has already blocked over 330,000 bad apples, but with more flooding the FPS' Open Beta, EA says it "was not intended to be a silver bullet"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Anti-Cheat isn't one and done"

Legendary Mario and Tetris composer "specifically" made Metroid's iconic ending tune to impress one older debugger on the Nintendo team
By Kaan Serin published
News Chip Tanaka celebrated the classic's 39th anniversary

Prolific Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor who played 5 major roles may be an integral part of the RPG, but she doesn't care for its parrying: "I need to work on my inner peace"
By Kaan Serin published
News One of us, one of us

Good news, fishing game sickos: Nintendo has filed a patent for what looks like a reel to attach to your Switch 2 Joy-Con
By Kaan Serin published
News Hook, line, and Joy-Cons

Alt-pop princess Pinkpantheress snuck sound bites from Nintendo's cult Wii hit Rhythm Heaven Fever into her music ahead of its new Switch game: "It’s the game that got me through my teens"
By Kaan Serin published
News 14 years after Beyonce expressed her love for the musical series

Switch price increases leak early as Nintendo bumps consoles by up to $50 in the US, makes Joy-Con 2s $5 more expensive, and slaps another $10 on my beloved Alarmo
By Kaan Serin published
News "Due to market conditions"
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