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

"We kept waiting for another Risk of Rain 2. It never came:" New roguelike hits Steam with 2-8 player co-op
By Kaan Serin published
News Just don't ask what LORT means

New Mario Kart World update finally adds team races to the Switch 2 game's Knockout Tour mode
By Kaan Serin published
News You can now split the 24-player race into competing teams

A single map inspired Fallout 3's lead designer to create the RPG's entire story
By Kaan Serin published
News It's all about water

Terminally ill GTA 6 fan with 6-12 months to live has been put in touch with Rockstar about playing the game early
By Kaan Serin published
News After the studio did the same with Red Dead Redemption 2

The Last of Us director's biggest inspiration for his new game was Ico, the first game to ever make him cry
By Kaan Serin published
News Bruce Straley says "before that, games were just games to me"

The very first Fallout 3 art was the box art, but the most difficult bit to create was the iconic Vault suit
By Kaan Serin published
News OG developers say "that was the first thing, the first asset"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the RPG's success was "completely unexpected from pretty much everybody"
By Kaan Serin published
News "This is one hundred times what we were expecting"

Dragon Age veteran defends studio's attempt to make something different with Anthem: "BioWare's always been changing"
By Kaan Serin published
News "By that argument, we should have never made Neverwinter Nights because we were a 2D RPG maker"

Danganronpa creator's massive tactical RPG has actually been two games in one all along, which, y'know, makes sense
By Kaan Serin published
News The Hundred Line and The Hundred Line 2 have been hiding under our noses

Minecraft-like RPG Hytale releases first big update with new content, tons of fixes, and a tease for pet dogs
By Kaan Serin published
News "We are committed to maintaining a rapid patching cadence"

One of Steam's hottest top-sellers is the zombie apocalypse sim that previously dominated Steam Next Fest
By Kaan Serin published
News Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is like The Last of Us meets Papers, Please

Mass Effect 5 might release "a long time" after The Veilguard as BioWare's become a "one project studio," veteran says
By Kaan Serin published
News Mark Darrah says it's "probably for the best" since different teams won't be fighting for resources

Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans are a little disappointed about Slumber Islands' building limitations
By Kaan Serin published
News Too many restrictions and an NSO requirement dampen this 3.0 addition

Fallout 5's "obvious" setting would be New Vegas, says Fallout: London lead, but he'd rather the RPG went to Texas
By Kaan Serin published
News "The place is already a living caricature of itself"

"No brakes!": Hytale devs hit the gas with a dino-filled patch and promises of much more to come for the Minecraft rival
By Kaan Serin published
News Hypixel's not slowing down

No, Super Mario's actor hasn't secretly been narrating any Nintendo Directs, despite the "weird narrative online"
By Kaan Serin published
News Super Mario Bros. Wonder was really, really Kevin Afghani's first Nintendo project

JRPG icon behind Persona and Shin Megami Tensei breaks his 16-year hiatus from games with an upcoming "school life RPG"
By Kaan Serin published
News Atlus co-founder Kouji Okada is back

Fallout: London lead thinks Bethesda has "probably gone one game too far" with Elder Scrolls and Fallout
By Kaan Serin published
News Dean Carter's unsure if Fallout is "in the right hands"

Halo: Reach devs "had to fight tooth and nail to keep space combat" after Bungie wanted to cut it
By Kaan Serin published
News At least PvP space combat exists via mods

Former Assassin's Creed lead says don't worry about a AA takeover, it's an "absolute wasteland" for mid-budget funding
By Kaan Serin published
News The Ubisoft veteran responds to Hazelight's Josef Fares

One of Steam's first hits of 2026 is this adorable co-op game about exploring wastelands on the back of a giant crab
By Kaan Serin published
News Don't say friendslop

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs "basically did twice the work" of a more experienced team to get the RPG out the door
By Kaan Serin published
News "[The younger staff] didn't have any expectations about how a studio should be run and how a game should be made"

As Baldur's Gate 3 devs move onto Divinity, Larian lead says the writing process is to "encourage the chaos"
By Kaan Serin published
News "To be at one with the chaos"
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