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
A month after Nintendo killed 3DS and Wii U servers, eight final players beat a 14-year-old record held by Halo 2 superfans
By Kaan Serin published
News The last Halo 2 players held on for 25 days
Helldivers 2 Steam rating nosedives as one dev says refunds and the 145,000 negative reviews "gives us more pull in discussions with Sony"
By Kaan Serin published
News Helldivers 2 now holds an "Overwhelmingly Negative" rating based on recent reviews
Avowed and Cyberpunk 2077 leads weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3 setting a new standard for RPGs: "Baldur's Gate is a D&D game, we're not going to start rolling now"
By Kaan Serin published
News But it might make some choices weirder, in all the good ways
Helldivers 2 has been pulled from Steam in 170 countries without PSN access, while Valve ignores its own policy to issue refunds for players with over 100 hours
By Kaan Serin published
News Steam only issues refunds for players with less than 2 hours of playtime in-game, normally
Helldivers 2's PSN mandate won't stop players in unsupported regions from playing the game, while devs look "for better options"
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead won't "force people to either break Sony TOS or not play the game"
Manor Lords player complains about undead animals taking up space, dev pops up to say "I fixed it already – will be added to the next patch"
By Kaan Serin published
News Ox corpses won't stick around for too much longer
Cyberpunk 2077 lead reveals the smoke and mirrors behind one of the RPG's most unique quests: "Our cinematic team wanted to kill me"
By Kaan Serin published
News Nighttime dives aren't as simple as they seem
Like the Ori Metroidvanias, No Rest for the Wicked director says his new ARPG starts with a rainstorm to pay homage to Zelda games as a "good luck charm"
By Kaan Serin published
News There's something about loud winds and angry rain that just sets the mood
After 343 reportedly shot down a Helldivers 2-style ODST game, Halo Infinite players are making it themselves in Forge
By Kaan Serin published
News That dream ODST spin-off is now a reality... built in Forge mode
Manor Lords farmer raises 2,100 sheep and counting, immediately regrets defying the city builder's dev: "Send help, I'm drowning in wool"
By Kaan Serin published
News An exponentially growing sheep herd
Thousands of negative Steam reviews hit Helldivers 2 after players learn they need a PSN account to continue playing
By Kaan Serin published
News Sony announced mandatory account linking today
Helldivers 2's new weapon is a "real tentacle-tearer," fuelling conspiracies about the Illuminate faction's return or another Terminid variant
By Kaan Serin published
News Psychic squids or the Terminid Impalers?
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom builder masterfully recreates the tank from 1996's Metal Slug to devastate Hyrule
By Kaan Serin published
News The arcade classic bulldozes into Hyrule
Escape From Tarkov dev apologizes for paywalling PvE behind a $250 edition - will now open access to the mode in waves "for free"
By Kaan Serin published
News To all Edge of Darkness owners
Manor Lords archers are a little "ineffective" now because they were totally overpowered before: "This will surely take a while to get right"
By Kaan Serin published
News The wrinkles that come with early access
Fallout vault mapper faces their biggest challenge yet with the map for the canceled game that would have been Fallout 3
By Kaan Serin published
News Find a vault near you, soon
Escape From Tarkov devs reverse course on $250 PvE mode, promise it'll be free for all when the game exits beta - but its early access is still paywalled
By Kaan Serin published
News Battlestate Games also triples down on its definition of DLC
The Division director is coming for Escape from Tarkov with his new extraction shooter: "There's still an opportunity to be the best in this genre"
By Kaan Serin published
News Martin Hultberg doesn't think the PvPvE genre has reached mass market appeal yet
Manor Lords came about partly because of a classic 1994 medieval strategy game and "raising sheep"
By Kaan Serin published
News Lots of sheep, seriously
Skyrim VR player who spent $15k on the "most immersive" setup adds a second haptic suit to simulate real pain
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's very painful"
After 2 years of early access success, '90s-inspired strategy game shoots past 500,000 wishlists with a fourth campaign and 1.0 release date announcement
By Kaan Serin published
News Songs of Conquest exits early access with a ton of hype behind it
New Helldivers 2 Major Order makes players choose which planet to save, earning a Rocket Launcher or Anti-Tank Mines - but not both
By Kaan Serin published
News Liberate Choohe or Penta for a reward (and to save some Super Earthlings, I guess)
The Nintendo Switch 2 will reportedly work with existing Pro Controllers, while waving goodbye to current Joy-Cons
By Kaan Serin published
News Previous rumors claimed the console would also support older games