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

Crimson Desert's updates weren't pre-planned as Pearl Abyss is "not baking in presumptions around what the players want"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Everything, patch-wise, content-wise, has been iterated in real time," says PR lead Will Powers

Assassin's Creed Hexe creative director opens new studio just 2 months after leaving Ubisoft
By Kaan Serin published
News Clint Hocking's new indie outfit aims to make "emotionally resonant, socially relevant games"

Months after Halo Infinite's final major update, Halo Studios releases a surprise PvE mode
By Kaan Serin published
News Developers and fans agree, Firefight: Gauntlet is "deviously difficult"

Snoop Dogg and his son join Stranger Than Heaven cast as Yakuza devs' new game gets a winter release window
By Kaan Serin published
News Drop It Like It's 1915

Like any Final Fantasy 7 fan, Remake trilogy boss "seriously searched" for a way to reverse the JRPG's big death
By Kaan Serin published
News One of us, one of us

Arc Raiders dev thinks yesterday's niche "can become mainstream tomorrow" as extraction shooters boom in popularity
By Kaan Serin published
News The growing subgenre represents a shift in who these games are "designed for," Virgil Watkins says

The Witcher 3 director says Crimson Desert and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 take him back to the golden age of RPGs
By Kaan Serin published
News Blood of Dawnwalker lead is really excited about RPGs that open "an unknown experience for you"

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced uses the same engine as Shadows
By Kaan Serin published
News Ubisoft's Anvil Engine is "at the heart" of this remake

Just like Silksong, Subnautica 2 causes a chain reaction and pushes a second game to move its release date early
By Kaan Serin published
News Farm to Table is moving forward, too

Bungie doesn't see Marathon going anywhere: "We know where we want to take the story over the next few years"
By Kaan Serin published
News But nothing's locked in because the devs want players to be able to shape the story

Former Dragon Quest director says JRPG icon Yuji Horii taught him the series is "not about the storyline"
By Kaan Serin published
News A lesson that was "drilled" into Jin Fujisawa

Valve wants to price Steam Machine as competitively as possible, but fears RAM shortages "will impact anything we make"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Obviously, we're bummed that this is the state of things"

Crimson Desert combat "became less frequent" as players progressed, so a new patch adds rematches for 69 bosses
By Kaan Serin published
News Nice

Skyrim inspired Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but Warhorse co-founder once listed "100 reasons that he hates" the RPG
By Kaan Serin published
News The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim was allegedly a "huge inspiration" for Daniel Vávra

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced lead confirms "social stealth is back," but hidden blade combat isn't
By Kaan Serin published
News The iconic weapons are part of a "fatal, contextual" takedowns instead

Subnautica 2 pulls a Hollow Knight Silksong, shoves one of Steam's most-wishlisted games out of its release date
By Kaan Serin published
News Outbound is another open-world survival game with over a million Steam wishlists

Hades 2 developer is hiring for "what's next" after its 2 roguelike juggernauts
By Kaan Serin published
News Supergiant previously said Hades 3 wasn't "preordained"

Asked about Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3, Warhorse Studios vaguely teases "there are plans in motion"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Plans for immersive RPG"

Rumored Star Fox Switch 2 game is nowhere to be seen and fans are all asking the same thing: What gives, Nintendo?
By Kaan Serin published
News A prominent leaker claimed a new Star Fox game would be revealed in April

Leak of next Tales remaster does Bandai Namco's job for it, unexpectedly bringing a 26-year-old JRPG back from the dead
By Kaan Serin published
News Bandai Namco's Tales Remastered Project is far from over

Xbox accidentally gave away the RPG that led to OG Fallout for free, and is now fixing broken copies
By Kaan Serin published
News inXile Entertainment is fixing broken versions of Wasteland Remastered that it handed out by accident

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced HUD is optional as Ubisoft baked all the information you need into its animations
By Kaan Serin published
News "Removing visual feedback can turn combat into a more instinct driven challenge"

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced doesn't borrow from Shadows and Valhalla's RPG combat at all
By Kaan Serin published
News Health and defense bars are purely optional
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