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
Solve murders and piece together clues in this investigative point-and-clicker that blends X-Files with Her Story
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News Scrub through footage to solve unusual crimes in The Operator
BattleJuice Alchemist, the genre-bending RPG with a Tim Burton style, heads into early access today
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News Choose between isometric action combat or turn-based JRPG-style demon fights
Bodycams and body horror infect the upcoming Zoochosis, a zookeeping sim about horribly mutated animal monsters
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News Zoochosis debuts a frightening new look at the Future Games Show
Amid studio closures and mass layoffs, one indie developer's pirate RPG just sold enough copies to fund a sequel: "it feels right when talented individuals can finally do what they love"
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News Caribbean Legend has made enough to fund its developer into the future
Ahead of his new MMO, RuneScape creator says games have gotten too microtransaction-heavy: "Our number one aim is not monetization, it's players"
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News Brighter Shores isn't focused on milking players
Genshin Impact studio's new urban RPG Zenless Zone Zero is holding another beta test featuring cute robo-bunny hordes and a PS5 giveaway
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News Getting that giveaway is anything but zen
Helldivers 2 grunts capture sightings of a returning faction while the game's director desperately restarts the propaganda machine: "The Illuminate are already here"
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News A faction from Helldivers 1 has allegedly been spotted
Stardew Valley's 1.6 update gives the biggest gift for serial organizers: foodstuff that's "colored based on the ingredient"
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News You can now color-code chests
Breath of the Wild-inspired sequel to 25-year-old open-world game is about 64 square kilometers, and you can explore "every inch ... without any restrictions"
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News Outcast: A New Beginning gives you free reign
Astonishingly, Balatro's creator had never even played Slay the Spire and intentionally "cut myself off" from roguelikes to create the best game possible
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News "I wanted to make my own mistakes"
New MMO from RuneScape creator lets you automate and AFK the boring stuff: "Instead of fighting against people doing this ... let's make it part of the game"
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News Battling the grind and busywork
For $25 you can either buy one Overwatch 2 Cowboy Bebop crossover skin or the entire classic anime on Blu-ray
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News But not both, because you don't have $50 in this imaginary scenario
14 years after Microsoft shut it down, Halo 2 gets new public servers thanks to an unofficial OG Xbox Live replacement
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News Good news for Mountain Dew and Doritos lovers
The Rise of the Ronin team used Ghost of Tsushima as a "reference," but hopes the open-world RPG's "Japanese-ness" stands out more
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News "I wondered why we couldn't release a game like Ghost of Tsushima back then"
Palworld creator wants to avoid "big-budget triple-A games" in the future as the hit survival game's profits are "too big for a studio with our size to handle"
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News Pocketpair is remaining small amid Palworld's giant success
Miyamoto confirms new Super Mario Movie from Illumination coming in 2026, but instead of a sequel, the film is "broadening Mario's world"
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News Series creator Shigeru Miyamoto is back in a producing role
The best time to play Dragon's Dogma was 12 years ago, and the second-best time is now while the RPG is on sale for $5 ahead of Dragon's Dogma 2's launch
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News Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is cheaper than... most things in this economy right now
Breath of the Wild hugely inspired the sequel to one of the first open-world games ever made: "You can go literally anywhere"
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News Outcast: A New Beginning lets you tackle objectives in any order
"I won't stop till I'm given a melee weapon": Helldivers 2 madman is fist-fighting their way through bugs with over 100 melee kills a mission
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News Punching up critters and robots
Multiple Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth leads describe how "tough" the JRPG's development was: "I honestly wasn't sure that we could put it all together in time"
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News The sequel was huge in every single way, to be fair
PlayStation pulls Stellar Blade demo off consoles after the RPG was accidentally made available, in a move it didn't even make for P.T.
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News An unusual move for Sony
PlayStation-partnered studio from former Black Ops devs shuts down after saying its Sony collaboration would bring "complete financial security"
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News Deviation Games had yet to reveal its debut game
600 Activision QA staff vote to form the biggest US game union to date: "As QA workers, we often have the weakest protections and lowest pay"
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News Workers from the Call of Duty publisher form Activision Quality Assurance United