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

Amid Xbox layoffs and a 50% Game Pass price hike, former FTC chair slams "too-big-to-care" Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout that's "harming both gamers and developers"
By Kaan Serin published
News Told you so?

After Halo 5 had the iconic series on thin ice, Halo Infinite's big bad was created in Halo Wars 2 to "get back to" the FPS' "dark" past
By Kaan Serin published
News The Banished for the win

Digimon Story Time Stranger launches to bigger player counts than any Persona or single-player Final Fantasy JRPG in Steam history
By Kaan Serin last updated
News Monstrous numbers

Palworld dev has been "consumed" by Steam's newest roguelike megahit and can't even return to Borderlands 4: "Back on the Megabonk now"
By Kaan Serin published
News Another all-consuming roguelike

Marvel Rivals' Daredevil continues the trend of caked up heroes in NetEase's shooter, and his actor says it's so the attorney can "distract the supports," obviously
By Kaan Serin published
News Matt Buttocks

Red Dead Redemption 2 now has NPCs with "actual memories you are forced to watch when they die" thanks to a modder with too much power, and what's worse is his Twitch chat wrote the script
By Kaan Serin published
News "I might just delete this mod"

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles launches to 88% 'Very Positive' Steam reviews as fans call the JRPG remaster a "beautiful recreation of an already beautiful game"
By Kaan Serin published
News "A perfect remaster of a perfect game"

5 years later, Ghost of Yotei finally reveals what happened to Jin Sakai after Ghost of Tsushima in a secret side quest
By Kaan Serin published
News The Ghost of the Ghost of Tsushima

After 28 years, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles finally makes the JRPG's ending less ambiguous and leaves the door open for a sequel
By Kaan Serin published
News Dead or Alive?

Sonic the Hedgehog's Takashi Iizuka says a remake of Sonic Adventure isn't in the works because Sega developers "could make a brand new game instead"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Instead of using all that time and energy to remake a game that people have already experienced"

Ghost of Yotei studio head says the series likely won't ever head to "feudal Europe" or outside of Japan: "We believe the core of Ghost is someone wielding a katana"
By Kaan Serin published
News Ghost of Katana Lovers

Former GTA boss and Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser says Bully 2 never happened because "you just can't do all the projects you want"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Bandwidth issues" were the problem

Gearbox Software unveils the first Borderlands 4 DLC Vault Hunter, coming in early 2026 alongside some story expansions for the FPS
By Kaan Serin published
News He's called C4SH, probably because he likes cash and this is the 4th Borderlands?

Elden Ring saxophone slayer is "almost done" playing Silksong with his improbable controller, skillfully doot-ing his way through one of the most painful platforming sections
By Kaan Serin published
News Hollow Knight and Doot

Resident Evil Requiem wasn't originally going to come out on Switch 2, but RE Village ran so well on Nintendo's new console, Capcom said why the heck not?
By Kaan Serin published
News RE9 on Switch 2 "wasn't in the original plan"

2XKO director says players should know the LoL fighting game "might not be good" at everything at first, but Riot will "address it" – "We're going to make mistakes"
By Kaan Serin published
News "We're the type of team where we want to try stuff."

"Pricing is never just about numbers": Infinity Nikki fans had an "intense" reaction to furniture prices, says dev, which taught the team to start "building long-term trust"
By Kaan Serin published
News Infold Games speaks out about its recent pricing controversy

Not even Dying Light: The Beast's game director knows how many Easter eggs there are, and you haven't found all of them yet
By Kaan Serin published
News Nathan Lemaire says "there is one in particular that I'm thinking of that has not been found"

Helldivers 2 boss says "realism is not the goal" and "player fantasy matters more," but Arrowhead is still careful to remember that "it needs to be Helldivers"
By Kaan Serin published
News Wrangling a team as big as Arrowhead is the tricky part

Hollow Knight Silksong speedrunner becomes the first person in the world to smash through the enormous metroidvania in less than an hour and they're already planning a faster route
By Kaan Serin published
News Skongrunners have a new champ

Forza Horizon 6 is the first game in the series set in Japan because Playground Games wanted to "do the country justice," and its Hot Wheels DLC helped that happen
By Kaan Serin published
News If you squint, there's basically no difference

Helldivers 2 community's favorite conspiracy theory shut down by Arrowhead CEO, who says Major Orders are not scripted and the devs are as clueless as players: "Our predictions are often wrong"
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead's in the dark, too

Arrowhead boss wants Helldivers 2 to be a "forever game" like RuneScape that can keep improving, with "no plans" for a sequel
By Kaan Serin published
News Helldivers 3? Not while Helldivers 2 is still chugging
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