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

A new "chaotic roguelike" inspired by genre top dog Balatro quietly came out months ago, but still has 100% positive Steam reviews and its free demo totally proves why
By Kaan Serin published
News Omelet You Cook has literally perfect user reviews

Haunted Chocolatier was announced almost 4 years ago, but don't worry, Eric Barone says Stardew Valley 1.7 won't "hinder" the development of his next life sim
By Kaan Serin published
News The ghost-ridden life sim is apparently unaffected by the next Stardew Valley update

Square Enix would rather ask all its legendary JRPG devs the meaning of life than announce an FF9 remaster, and Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida says he's found no meaning "at all"
By Kaan Serin published
News Yoshi-P is still looking

As AAA games try to push $80 price tags, Hollow Knight Silksong leaks suggest it'll only be $5 more expensive than the first game
By Kaan Serin published
News Modest for a game that's been in the making for eight years

Lego Batman devs have "never" adapted older movies, TV shows, and comics before, but Legacy of the Dark Knight will create "one definitive, essential, epic story of Batman"
By Kaan Serin published
News "So it's a fusion of all those iconic moments that you remember"

"There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update": Creator ConcernedApe confirms another update to the immortal life sim hot off a new Haunted Chocolatier tease
By Kaan Serin last updated
News At the Stardew Valley concert

The FromSoftware modder who put Halo maps into Dark Souls is back with an equally absurd but exciting mod: "I ported Morrowind to Elden Ring"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I was originally targeting the Dark Souls 1 engine, but found that it could not handle how dense the Morrowind landscape was."

Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P is "a maniac about One Piece," but his dream collab is still the RPG he's spent 1000s of hours in: "I love Diablo so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself"
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Yoshida is a Blizzard Entertainment fan

Former FPS pro Shroud says Valve's Deadlock is already "one of the best games ever made" and it's "just a matter of time" until people realize
By Kaan Serin published
News The shooter is still doing limited playtests

In the face of countless live service shutdowns, Danganronpa creator believes devs should be "taking responsibility" to give "players a sincere conclusion"
By Kaan Serin published
News Kazutaka Kodaka is giving Tribe Nine an unofficial web comic

Nintendo has more than Palworld to deal with – IP expert says Genshin Impact dev's new Pokemon-style game "clearly infringes" on a hard-to-avoid patent Pocketpair is accused of infringing
By Kaan Serin published
News Honkai: PokePal Wars

PlayStation's Final Fantasy-style action RPG launches after 11 years to 'Mixed' Steam reviews, so Lost Soul Aside devs are "actively working on optimizations"
By Kaan Serin published
News Complaints point at performance and animation

Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was in "a lot of debt" before the breakout RPG, a "really classist" reality for many industry performers: "How on Earth do you do it?"
By Kaan Serin published
News Jennifer English gets real about acting in video games

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs love feedback, but will stick to their guns when it comes to game direction: "Yeah, but no thanks, because we already have a very good idea that we believe in"
By Kaan Serin published
News "What is it we want to do? What's the story we want to tell?"

After 16 JRPGs across 37 years, the long-running Ys series is finally localizing the Nintendo Switch remaster of its overlooked PS Vita gem next year
By Kaan Serin published
News And it follows the last mainline game chronologically

Battlefield 6 won't actually boot stomp Black Ops 7, analyst says, because Call of Duty fans on "autopilot" will "buy it even if they complain about it"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Breaking it requires more than one awesome Battlefield release"

PS5 exclusive horror game bucks the trend, announces a delay to get out of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's way instead of Hollow Knight: Silksong
By Kaan Serin published
News Dino Crisis spiritual successor Code Violet has been delayed

The impending Silksong release date drives droves of fans back to the OG Hollow Knight, which has doubled its Steam player peak 8 years after launch
By Kaan Serin published
News 2017's Hollow Knight reaches a new peak

Dune: Awakening dev says player retention has been "extremely good" and the MMO's 10-year plan still has "so much to pull from" in the lore: "We'll go to new planets eventually"
By Kaan Serin published
News Production director Ole Andreas Hayley would love to visit the Atreides home planet, Caladan

I did not expect a revival of the most obscure 1990s mascot platformer to have moves that rival Mario Odyssey, but that's what the Demon Turf devs are doing
By Kaan Serin published
News Bubsy 4D has the sauce

Former PlayStation boss says "no one is in touch with their fan base more than Nintendo" and even Sony "was never this in touch" with what players wanted
By Kaan Serin published
News Shawn Layden wouldn't change much atop the Switch 2 maker

Former PlayStation boss says he greenlit Ratchet and Clank on PS4 despite Sony saying "no one wants to play that old game"
By Kaan Serin published
News Around 80% of PS4 gamers weren't familiar with the brand "so for them, its a new game"

Two years and one Assassin's Creed Shadows later, Ubisoft is giving AC Mirage a "surprise" free DLC after saying it was done with the game
By Kaan Serin published
News Another leap of faith
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