Latest articles by Kaan Serin
Former Square Enix exec says viral Roblox hit Grow a Garden is "somewhat evil": "Do you wanna pay to grow this faster? Do you wanna pay to steal this from someone's garden?"
News That's the one that had 21 million concurrent players
Indie dev behind quietly massive Steam trend says they only learned to code 5 years ago but have made 2 games selling 750,000 copies: "I still don't believe it myself sometimes"
News There's a million idle farming sims on Steam now
On top of The Duskbloods and Elden Ring: Nightreign, FromSoft is reportedly deep in development on a game that sleuths think is another Dark Souls remaster
News Dark Souls 3 Remastered? A full collection? More Bloodborne copium?
Legendary Shadow of the Colossus and Katamari Damacy creators think Roblox's popularity is proof we're past the point where graphics really matter to players
News Keita Takahashi and Fumito Ueda have a point
Author responsible for JRPG icons like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona says Atlus game royalties aren't as big as you'd expect: "That's why people call me a novelist"
News Aya Nishitani wrote Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei almost 40 years ago
Playtesting for Steam's cutest "Pokémon-inspired creature collector game" is now open, and it's threatening to ruin my productivity
News Whimside also has a demo
A GameStop Switch 2 console, the staple that ruined it, and the stapler that stapled it have been auctioned off for $250,000, with all proceeds going to charity
News The Staplegate saga concludes
Silent Hill creator is conscious of his age and wants to "pass the baton on to the next generation," but the horror icon's got at least one more game up his sleeve
News Keiichiro Toyama says his next game is already in development
I knew Marvel Rivals' swimsuit skins were supposed to be horny, but no one was expecting them to be quite this cheeked-up: "I hope Loki's speedo is bulletproof"
News Finally some equal representation
Donkey Kong Bananza's "rich and thick" hero isn't butt-naked this time around because Nintendo was "conscious" of how he looked "from the back"
News Nintendo threw some clothes on DK so you aren't just staring at his furry behind the entire time
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says his latest game dev crush is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, one of the most efficient games he's played all year
News Naoki Yoshida found all the recent Zelda games fun
While its creators are in a very public legal feud, legendary puzzle platformers Inside and Limbo are being removed from a PC storefront
News Playdead's classics are getting delisted with no reason given
Ubisoft had a very on-brand problem with Assassin's Creed Odyssey: there weren't many tall buildings in Ancient Greece even though it's a "climbing-frame game"
News "What we did is we took a fantastical approach to the giant statue that then gave us something epic to climb"
Overwatch 2 director thinks "competition is healthy" in the hero shooter space, but says the FPS' new features aren't "a response to Marvel Rivals"
News "It does force people to innovate more and to always be putting your best foot forward"
Giving that Elden Ring co-op modder a run for their money, there's now a Yakuza 5 mod that lets you play with a friend or AI-controlled Ichiban
News The Intertwined Fates mod has Kiryu and Ichiban team up slightly earlier
As GTA 6 and Ghost of Yotei approach, Assassin's Creed veteran says good open-world games are slapstick: "You're just setting up the opportunity for jokes"
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Far Cry 4 lead reveals a cut idea for enemy camps that would have completely changed the story: "I think that's where the fun of the whole genre might lie"
News Alex Hutchinson says the devs toyed around with letting players give enemy camps back to Pagan Min
27 years later, this uncanny "Hero of Law" mod makes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time the game it was always meant to be: Ace Attorney
News Objection!
No wonder Superman took so long – director James Gunn was as obsessed with Balatro as the rest of us: "I pretty much just catch up on work and read and play Balatro"
News The global enemy of productivity has come for DC Studios
With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in the rear view, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says a turn-based Final Fantasy could sell over 10 million copies: "There's clearly the audience"
News To turn the base or not to base turns, that is the question
Overwatch 2 director says the FPS "dropped the ball when it comes to story," but wants those sick animated shorts to make a comeback and "would love" a TV show
News Aaron Keller agrees, more animated content is exactly what OW needs
Ghost of Yotei collaborates with Cowboy Bebop director for a mode that makes exploring Japan extra chill, while another cranks up the bloodshed even further
News Shinichiro Watanabe directed original tracks to stab and chill to, and they might just serve as an ode to a lo-fi pioneer
OG Subnautica director is suing parent company Krafton after leadership changes: "Subnautica has been my life's work and I would never willingly abandon it"
News "Suing a multi-billion dollar company in a painful, public and possibly protracted way was certainly not on my bucket list"
