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

Nintendo combats big budgets with games that only need "shorter development periods" alongside $80 Switch 2 behemoths like Mario Kart World
By Kaan Serin published
News $10 Welcome Tour, anyone?

Marvel Rivals is reheating more of Overwatch's nachos with a romance-themed season that's in a position to out-thirsty Blizzard
By Kaan Serin published
News Dataminers claim Season 5 is all about love

GTA 6 will "remain" the most expensive game ever, former Rockstar dev predicts, because GTA 7 will see the "bulk of the work" replaced by AI
By Kaan Serin published
News "We'll have to wait 15 years to see if I'm right or not."

Final Fantasy 9 fans have long thought Vivi's name came from his tragic background, but a new prequel book has a much sillier explanation
By Kaan Serin published
News Call him SixSix from now on

Despite rumors to the contrary, Perfect Dark developer confirms the canceled game’s awesome, Dishonored-riffing demo was actually real
By Kaan Serin published
News "The parkour is all real, the hacking/deception is mostly real."

Marvel Rivals is allowed to use characters from the last "85 years" of comics, and fans want everyone from a literal wall to a mutant who poops ice cream in the game
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News Soft Serve? Big Wheel? Howard the Duck? Anything's possible

Reviving Hytale is such a risky proposition, its founder kind of "wants Riot to say no" to his offer for the Minecraft rival because it "makes no business sense"
By Kaan Serin published
News But he's doing it anyway

Stop Killing Games petition is 95% of the way to its 1 million signatures goal, a year after Ubisoft sparked the preservation campaign by taking always-online racing game The Crew offline
By Kaan Serin published
News But the initiative might need "at least 1.2-1.3 million"

The Witcher 4 narrative lead says CD Projekt Red "can't break" the stuff that people want from a Witcher game: "We have to do that"
By Kaan Serin published
News "A lot of the narrative lessons from The Witcher 3, we use them exactly the same way."

New Switch 2 game comes from the developer of some absolute DS classics, is designed for "adult women," and is doing something genuinely exciting for visual novels
By Kaan Serin published
News Dear Me, I Was... comes from the art director of Hotel Dusk and Another Code

OG Hytale founder confirms he "will reach out" to Riot Games about buying back the Minecraft rival: "The chances of revival are next to impossible… It's the least I can do"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Yes, I made the decision, I will give my best to save Hytale."

"I might never finish this game, so I'm releasing the demo": After 9 years, A Short Hike dev soft-cancels Paper Mario-inspired RPG but lets players try a build
By Kaan Serin published
News Adam Gryu puts his paper RPG on hold indefinitely

"Games are amazingly affordable": Former PlayStation boss defends $80 prices because stuff like Mario Kart provides "hours and hours and hours with just one purchase"
By Kaan Serin published
News And they haven't inflated as much as movie tickets, for example.

Capcom agrees Monster Hunter Wilds has an endgame problem, so it's adding "a new level of quest difficulty" and Talisman crafting to "broaden the range of builds"
By Kaan Serin published
News In updates coming later this year

Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe reportedly says he could "possibly" step in to save cancelled Minecraft-like Hytale, but he'd need to know "why it failed" first
By Kaan Serin published
News Eric Barone gets asked about if he'd ever help save Hytale

Cyberpunk 2 director says "mature games" used to mainly be about killing and sex, but The Witcher 3 was part of a "broader process" to change that as devs grew older
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News "In that era between The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3, mature games were mostly associated with two things."

Link wanted for counterfeit as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 edition adds a new item duplication glitch for infinite rare materials
By Kaan Serin published
News As many diamonds as you like - they're super real, I promise

New $35 Donkey Kong cushion also comes with what fans are calling a "banana hole", but I don't think people are going to use the 15-inch plush in the way Nintendo intends
By Kaan Serin published
News Nintendo, what is this?

Mario Kart World fans slam Nintendo for making 3-lap tracks even rarer: "Now I have an excuse not to buy the Switch 2"
By Kaan Serin published
News Intermission tracks are becoming quite divisive

Monster Hunter Wilds is getting more PC improvements, but they don't seem to address the CPU issues tanking the game's performance
By Kaan Serin published
News Recent Steam reviews are 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

Steam's fourth most popular game isn't really a game at all, but it's doubling as a "marketing tool" so effective its devs don't mind that "it's actually losing us money"
By Kaan Serin published
News Bongo Cat helped the developer's next game reach 50,000 wishlists

Death Stranding 2's cameos don't stop at celebrities and vtubers - Pac-Man shows up with a playable mini-game set on the open world's map
By Kaan Serin published
News Bandai Namco's arcade icon graces Hideo Kojima's new game

Massive Super Smash Bros. mod adds the N64 fighting game's actual announcer, and its new 15-minute trailer rivals Masahiro Sakurai's best work
By Kaan Serin published
News Smash Remix just gets bigger and bigger
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