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
Medieval expert who had never heard of Skyrim until 2024 breaks down what would happen if you took an arrow to the knee in painstaking detail
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News "I used to be an adventurer like you, until an arrow severed a ligament"
Artist spends 9 months combining all 152 original Pokemon into a horribly beautiful abomination
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News Including MissingNo
Some mad geniuses have turned the viral Lofi Girl into a life sim with a fabulous character creator, and it's Steam Next Fest's chillest demo
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News Spirit City: Lofi Sessions lets you mod your own Lofi Girl experience
One of the biggest and hottest demos in Steam Next Fest is a 40-hour slice of this tribal survival game with flashes of a Palworld-style management sim
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News Soulmask lets you recruit tribesmen for manual labor purposes
Stellar Blade director explains how the PS5 action game is really an RPG: "Depending on what you choose, you can change your Eve"
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News Changeable builds, a skill tree, and more!
'Florida Joker' says he's giving up on his $10 million GTA 6 lawsuit threat, because he now wants to voice the character
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News "People want to play it. I'm the reason why that game is so hype right now."
Like a Dragon director explains why Yakuza games release much faster than GTA or Assassin's Creed: "I don't think many companies are doing this"
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News RGG Studio releases quality crime dramas faster than you can say Infinite Wealth
Elden Ring, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls' seminal composer is now making music for the last game anyone expected
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News The longtime Fromsoftware composer takes a surprising pivot
The best Palworld bug yet gave one lucky player a gigantic Vixy the size of their entire base
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News Legally distinct dynamaxing
The Last of Us Part 2 director wanted Laura Bailey to bulk up for her Abby role: "I was training like crazy, and then I got pregnant"
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News "There's something interesting in Abby feeling a lot like Joel"
Avatar The Last Airbender's elemental weaving shot this spectacular indie Metroidvania past 30,000 Steam wishlists
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News Emberbane's elemental action-platforming looks lush
The Last of Us Part 2 studio admits "we have a reputation for crunching" and pledges that "it's something we're not going to do anymore"
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News Naughty Dog doesn't fully address the issue, but it does promise to do better in the future
Stardew Valley creator says the game's name "just came to me," after the original "was not pleasant to say"
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News Sprouting names out of nowhere
Steam's surprise JRPG hit of the year almost has more players than Persona 3 Reload and Infinite Wealth combined
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News Granblue Fantasy is soaring
Enshrouded players are literally going deep on the survival game's building systems, with underground homes to rival the halls of Moria
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News Don't tell the elves
Apex Legends patches out movement exploits, developer tells malding cheaters to "kick rocks"
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News Respawn removes some unfair advantages, irking cheaters
7 years later, Persona 3 Reload seems to squash a fan theory that connected the JRPG to successor Persona 5
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News The 'Boy With A Yellow Shirt' is no more
Palworld's Lifmunk Effigies promise to improve successful capture chances, but some players are seeing the exact opposite results
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News Anecdotal evidence or legit bug?
Verdicts seem to be reversing on Diablo 4 Season 3 after a substantial patch buffs Echo of Malphas
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News After community backlash reached a boil
Obsidian wants Avowed to be a "challenging" RPG that's more complex than "black-and-white, good-versus-evil morality"
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News Breaking away from the moral binary
Gears of War's Cliffy B gives up on returning to the series: "If they were smart, they'd enlist me"
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News "It's time to move on"
Palworld explorer gets extra lucky, catching a Level 45 Pal with a 0.03% chance of success while critically underleveled
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News Never tell Jormuntide the odds
Elden Ring player about to max out their real-life frenzy meter after spending 35 hours bravely explaining "the entire lore"
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News Fromsoftware's vague lore tidbits invite such epic videos