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 screenshot of some sheep in a field in Manor Lords.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ywis5992TeazrjzMz6t2iP-320-80.jpg)
"There is no way to AI generate this quality": Manor Lords creator shuts down AI concerns over the city builder's new update
By Kaan Serin published
News AI can't match the work that Manor Lords' developers put in
![Fallout London screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JdUUeCrkrVZJkErKhEfNYh-320-80.png)
Fallout London feels like an actual Bethesda RPG launch: heaps of praise mixed in with plenty of crash complaints
By Kaan Serin published
News Team FOLON were right - this is truly "Fallout 4.5"
![Doom running in Balatro](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fXpdZuwyqoREghiqz3ZiKQ-320-80.png)
Joining pregnancy tests and potato-powered calculators, smash hit roguelike Balatro is the latest thing that can run Doom
By Kaan Serin published
News Can It Run Doom continues to taint everyday fixtures
![Polygonal PS1 Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uwGEswF5y34qitE2oDf9ZT-320-80.png)
Those PS1 Harry Potter games that have been memed for the last 20 years are getting an indie spiritual successor that’s a “complete mess of a game”
By Kaan Serin published
News Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate comes from the Szymanski brothers
![Fallout 4 mod Fallout London screenshot showing a ruinous post-apocalyptic Camden](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fYxc6sKJNxyiYxRatdapDB-320-80.jpg)
Almost 100 modders spent 5 years making Fallout London, an RPG mod so expansive its creators call it "Fallout 4.5"
By Kaan Serin published
News A 20-hour main quest makes this more than your everyday fanmade mod
![Cosmoteer screenshot of two ships in battle](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bnTbnUe8yW7644uXwXnFb-320-80.jpg)
Indie developer behind 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rated shipbuilder argues that Steam's "free advertising" is worth the 30% cut
By Kaan Serin published
News "Steam will probably still outsell everything else combined by 100x"
![Slitterhead](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TrRz9tpij3DkWGDMufdzLR-320-80.jpg)
Slitterhead's body-hopping action makes it "completely different from stereotypical horror," Silent Hill creator says
By Kaan Serin published
News The parasitic monsters are horrifying enough
![Overwatch Mercy](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aHV38sBErTjWcSw2rdmPhm-320-80.jpg)
Marvel Rivals offers refuge to Mercy mains left out by Overwatch nerfs as the new hero shooter resurrects her most broken ability
By Kaan Serin published
News "Heroes Never Die!" can never die
![Neverness to Everness key art showing a protagonist standing on the side of a building.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hBVE7HKaRi9ETXRAfBiMHe-320-80.jpg)
After Genshin Impact's explosive success, PlayStation's been collecting gacha games for PS5 like money-printing Infinity Stones
By Kaan Serin published
News Neverness to Everness is next in line
![Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 movement.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wkzScckUsRfMYhJDopuTrA-320-80.jpg)
Activision Blizzard is reportedly already making games with AI, and quietly sold an AI-generated microtransaction in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
By Kaan Serin published
News Some of the biggest names in the business have already adopted the controversial tech
![A Humble Games logo with several game protagonists posing underneath](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kjQhMoVCZMZjXeb7JGC3de-320-80.jpg)
Indie devs working with Humble Games were also blindsided by the publisher reportedly laying off all employees: "This will have drastic consequences"
By Kaan Serin published
News Unsighted, Signalis, Ghost Song, and more developers react to the news
![A lush green planet found in No Man's Sky](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/niqtpBcMguCMsaA5R75Uba-320-80.jpg)
No Man's Sky dev proves it's not all "smoke and mirrors in space games" by zipping across "3 planets in 50 seconds" to show how "powerful" the engine really is
By Kaan Serin published
News "A nice demo of how seamless and powerful our engine is," from Hello Games programmer Martin Griffiths
![Helldivers 2 Viper Commandos](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cBerp52iWzm8iytCg6bmAZ-320-80.jpg)
"We could never have predicted how far this game would go": Helldivers 2's biggest update yet is just the "first step" to "expand the game in big, meaningful ways"
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead teases there's still a lot more to come
![Witcher 3: Wild Hunt](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EXR5bm2Skv6LGnuPGZXMKg-320-80.jpg)
New The Witcher 3 mod adds consequences to your sociopathic behavior with a full-blown reputation system
By Kaan Serin published
News Be nice, Geralt
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Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya feels it's his "duty" to make sequels to Okami and Viewtiful Joe: "Capcom-san, please, let's do it together"
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's only because eight people have played Viewtiful Joe that people aren't going wild"
![.45 Parabellum Bloodhound](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LEPH3bFymv26q9qwEDbehm-320-80.png)
VA-11 Hall-A developers are doing what Square Enix won't: making a spiritual successor to cult classic JRPG Parasite Eve
By Kaan Serin published
News And the first trailer absolutely slaps
![Splatoon 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ynoX8Fxqmgsr4bvUz9YCgn-320-80.jpg)
Recovering from the first game's shutdown, Splatoon 3 fans wonder how the latest and "biggest" Splatfest will shape an inevitable Splatoon 4
By Kaan Serin published
News "Past, Present, or Future" are the choices, squid kids
![Diablo 4 DLC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DUSLveeVsNjGztdtXZVtSS-320-80.jpg)
Blizzard didn't want Diablo 4's new Spiritborn class to be another MMO-grade "pet class" where you just outsource all the fun stuff
By Kaan Serin published
News The Spirit Guardians aren't attached to your hip
![Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing Astarion, a pale male elf with short curly white hair and red eyes, looking over his shoulder with a smirk on his face](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yjLZ2Fh9g8uPu9KAknYgpf-320-80.jpg)
Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon would love to play Astarion again: "Live action or game, I don't care – an advert for grape juice"
By Kaan Serin published
News If not, he'll settle for a role in anything Fallout-shaped
![Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty V riding motorbike through night city](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tduDLKSmxzFBAr2fxwxdnX-320-80.jpg)
Cyberpunk 2 director is "quite sure" people haven't found all of the secrets in The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
By Kaan Serin published
News There might still be Easter Eggs hiding in Night City
![Xbox Game Pass All Access](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QTSZjibagV8kjdvQnqMLZP-320-80.png)
Microsoft hits back at the FTC's "misleading" letter that called Xbox Game Pass Standard a "degraded" service as a result of the Activision Blizzard buyout
By Kaan Serin published
News Does Call of Duty make up for the higher price?
![Simpsons Hit and Run](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2aY5xjJpmDEEYqWzPiuikd-320-80.jpg)
While we wait for Simpsons: Hit and Run to leave PS2 purgatory, one modder flawlessly brings the cult-classic open-worlder to PS Vita
By Kaan Serin published
News The 2003 sandbox runs perfectly on the failed handheld
![Elden Ring](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gxtcRS7dAG9RdtSycC7Chd-320-80.jpg)
Elden Ring's upcoming patch promises an important fix: crediting translators "missing in the end credits" after Shadow of the Erdtree
By Kaan Serin published
News The Elden Ring DLC removed several individual names in the credits