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

Undertale's Toby Fox celebrates 10 years of the seminal RPG by letting you create your own pixelated avatar and record a memory, but it crashed almost immediately
By Kaan Serin published
News "Face the flower and speak."

As Krafton acquires Last Epoch, the hit ARPG's lead says he isn't worried about an ugly Subnautica 2 situation happening to them: "There's plenty of misinformation"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Krafton isn't looking to change us"

Thanks to Warner Bros, FEAR and its devs at Monolith are gone, but its legacy lives on in this horror FPS out this year that looks like the real deal
By Kaan Serin published
News Beneath has eldritch horrors, deep sea threats, and tense shootouts

A single former Capcom dev is responsible for a 'Kawaii Physics' plugin used in many Unreal Engine games, and he was thrilled to learn that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 also uses it
By Kaan Serin published
News Made with the power of kawaii

Dark Souls-inspired RPG Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has a classic Soulslike problem: poor performance, but the devs are fending off 70% negative Steam reviews with a new patch
By Kaan Serin published
News Leenzee Games had made several "performance related optimizations"

My Nintendo Direct hopium grows as Switch 2 big hitters Metroid Prime 4 and Hyrule Warriors get rated abroad
By Kaan Serin published
News Watch out, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has "a slight display of violence."

As Subnautica 2's dramatic $250 million lawsuit rolls on, Krafton snaps up Diablo-like Last Epoch: "The future of the franchise is secured for bigger and better things"
By Kaan Serin published
News Eleventh Hour Games had been "vetting potential partners over the last year."

Facing a Steam revolt, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers dev admits "these problems should never have occurred" but insists "we are confident in the game's performance within our recommended spec"
By Kaan Serin published
News Leenzee Games is "working on optimization"

"I can't believe I just beat Minecraft in an Overwatch queue": Streamer beats Minecraft while in a 2-hour wait, putting my procrastination to shame
By Kaan Serin published
News The streamer played Minecraft over the course of a week, all while in between Overwatch queues

After Valve and Steam, credit card companies spurred by anti-porn group sink their teeth into Itch, forcing countless NSFW games off the indie store under threat of critical payment failure
By Kaan Serin last updated
News "To ensure that we can continue to operate and provide a marketplace for all developers, we must prioritize our relationship with our payment partners"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success impressed Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima so much he invited its devs over to his studio to sign copies of the French JRPG
By Kaan Serin published
News The man is full of crossovers

Helldivers 2 boss signed the long-awaited Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 at a different company - 10 years later, he's still hoping it "sticks the landing"
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead's CEO is still excited for the cult classic sequel

"So if you know anyone": Warframe developers "can't wait" to make a Switch 2 version just as soon as Nintendo gets around to sending them a dev kit
By Kaan Serin published
News There's apparently a "backlog" for dev kits

Ubisoft CEO says Assassin's Creed Shadows cost over $100 million to make, but that's not shocking if you sat through the game's 2-hour credits
By Kaan Serin published
News Yves Guillemot sheds some light on the game's production cost

Helldivers 2 devs generate "a bajillion ideas a minute," but Arrowhead's CEO uses the perfect Star Wars line to explain why it can't bring them all to life
By Kaan Serin published
News "'I need more men'"

Battlefield 6 is seemingly just called Battlefield 6, according to leaked packages sent to content creators that might signal a reveal from EA soon
By Kaan Serin published
News Who could've guessed that?!

"Frankly, it's just so dang convenient": Ghost of Yotei's new camping trips are an answer to traditional RPG mechanics like fast travel
By Kaan Serin published
News And a way to show off the sequel's "way bigger" vistas

Helldivers 2 CEO absorbs duty of a chivalrous galactic knight, swears to heavens that "we won't rest until some kind of chainsword is in the game"
By Kaan Serin published
News Spread democracy via painful death

Valve boss and superyacht enthusiast Gabe Newell says pitching VCs is a "deeply distracted" way to make money: "If you're creating value for people, the capital will come your way"
By Kaan Serin published
News "The focus should always be on your customers, and on your partners, and on your employees"

Former Square Enix exec says viral Roblox hit Grow a Garden is "somewhat evil": "Do you wanna pay to grow this faster? Do you wanna pay to steal this from someone's garden?"
By Kaan Serin published
News That's the one that had 21 million concurrent players

Indie dev behind quietly massive Steam trend says they only learned to code 5 years ago but have made 2 games selling 750,000 copies: "I still don't believe it myself sometimes"
By Kaan Serin published
News There's a million idle farming sims on Steam now

On top of The Duskbloods and Elden Ring: Nightreign, FromSoft is reportedly deep in development on a game that sleuths think is another Dark Souls remaster
By Kaan Serin published
News Dark Souls 3 Remastered? A full collection? More Bloodborne copium?

Legendary Shadow of the Colossus and Katamari Damacy creators think Roblox's popularity is proof we're past the point where graphics really matter to players
By Kaan Serin published
News Keita Takahashi and Fumito Ueda have a point
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