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

The Witcher 4 narrative lead says CD Projekt Red "can't break" the stuff that people want from a Witcher game: "We have to do that"
By Kaan Serin published
News "A lot of the narrative lessons from The Witcher 3, we use them exactly the same way."

New Switch 2 game comes from the developer of some absolute DS classics, is designed for "adult women," and is doing something genuinely exciting for visual novels
By Kaan Serin published
News Dear Me, I Was... comes from the art director of Hotel Dusk and Another Code

OG Hytale founder confirms he "will reach out" to Riot Games about buying back the Minecraft rival: "The chances of revival are next to impossible… It's the least I can do"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Yes, I made the decision, I will give my best to save Hytale."

"I might never finish this game, so I'm releasing the demo": After 9 years, A Short Hike dev soft-cancels Paper Mario-inspired RPG but lets players try a build
By Kaan Serin published
News Adam Gryu puts his paper RPG on hold indefinitely

"Games are amazingly affordable": Former PlayStation boss defends $80 prices because stuff like Mario Kart provides "hours and hours and hours with just one purchase"
By Kaan Serin published
News And they haven't inflated as much as movie tickets, for example.

Capcom agrees Monster Hunter Wilds has an endgame problem, so it's adding "a new level of quest difficulty" and Talisman crafting to "broaden the range of builds"
By Kaan Serin published
News In updates coming later this year

Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe reportedly says he could "possibly" step in to save cancelled Minecraft-like Hytale, but he'd need to know "why it failed" first
By Kaan Serin published
News Eric Barone gets asked about if he'd ever help save Hytale

Cyberpunk 2 director says "mature games" used to mainly be about killing and sex, but The Witcher 3 was part of a "broader process" to change that as devs grew older
By Kaan Serin published
News "In that era between The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3, mature games were mostly associated with two things."

Link wanted for counterfeit as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 edition adds a new item duplication glitch for infinite rare materials
By Kaan Serin published
News As many diamonds as you like - they're super real, I promise

New $35 Donkey Kong cushion also comes with what fans are calling a "banana hole", but I don't think people are going to use the 15-inch plush in the way Nintendo intends
By Kaan Serin published
News Nintendo, what is this?

Mario Kart World fans slam Nintendo for making 3-lap tracks even rarer: "Now I have an excuse not to buy the Switch 2"
By Kaan Serin published
News Intermission tracks are becoming quite divisive

Monster Hunter Wilds is getting more PC improvements, but they don't seem to address the CPU issues tanking the game's performance
By Kaan Serin published
News Recent Steam reviews are 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

Steam's fourth most popular game isn't really a game at all, but it's doubling as a "marketing tool" so effective its devs don't mind that "it's actually losing us money"
By Kaan Serin published
News Bongo Cat helped the developer's next game reach 50,000 wishlists

Death Stranding 2's cameos don't stop at celebrities and vtubers - Pac-Man shows up with a playable mini-game set on the open world's map
By Kaan Serin published
News Bandai Namco's arcade icon graces Hideo Kojima's new game

Massive Super Smash Bros. mod adds the N64 fighting game's actual announcer, and its new 15-minute trailer rivals Masahiro Sakurai's best work
By Kaan Serin published
News Smash Remix just gets bigger and bigger

As Hideo Kojima celebrates Death Stranding 2's release, he says "there were moments when I truly felt like we might never finish this game"
By Kaan Serin published
News The pandemic gave the Metal Gear Solid creator some self-doubt

Borderlands 4 director says the FPS is "more intense" than others in the series while Randy Pitchford hints its toughest boss hasn't even been shown
By Kaan Serin published
News How much tougher will it get?

NSFW Stellar Blade mods have well over 1 million downloads, but the director's favorite mod is actually a surprisingly wholesome one
By Kaan Serin published
News Now excuse me while I scrub my eyes

As Cyberpunk 2077 tops Switch 2 sales charts, one analyst says divisive game-key cards "aren’t a major issue" for most gamers and a Baldur's Gate 3 dev agrees
By Kaan Serin published
News "So many people are taking Cyberpunk 2077 at #1 to mean that no one is buying game key cards, but that's not the full story."

The Blood of Dawnwalker takes major inspiration from Zelda: Breath of the Wild with a main quest you can tackle at almost any point
By Kaan Serin published
News You can storm the big castle even before you're ready to do so

The Witcher 3 veteran's vampire RPG shows off how dramatically different one quest can turn out: "Coen may be a human during the day, but he turns into a vampire at night"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Blood of Dawnwalker's quests can play out very differently depending on when you approach them

The most farm sim-looking farm sim I've seen all year just dropped, and it's unsurprisingly an instant hit on Steam with 3,000 glowing reviews after 3 days
By Kaan Serin published
News Farm Together 2 is off to a strong start

Splitgate 2 studio lays off "small group" of developers, while its co-founders aren't taking salaries "as we lock in to deliver the next phase" of the troubled FPS
By Kaan Serin published
News A tough time for 1047 Games
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