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

Space Invaders creator says devs are "increasingly expected to listen to the sales team," but game creation "needs to be creatively led first"
By Kaan Serin published
News Tomohiro Nishikado thinks today's games need to be made differently

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors tripped up over French words a lot, but "if you don't like the way we say it, you can just go and play it with the amazing French cast"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I think their French is a little bit better. I can't prove it but I think it might be."

Take-Two boss makes lofty GTA 6 promises, despite sky-high hype: "Rockstar Games is trying to create the best thing anyone's ever seen in entertainment"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Not just interactive entertainment"

3 years later, these JRPGs from genre veterans are stuck in purgatory despite raising nearly $2.6 million in a combined Kickstarter campaign
By Kaan Serin published
News The new games from Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts devs, Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood, have been getting love online recently

Death Stranding and The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus doesn't think "anybody can understand" what's going on in Hideo Kojima's brain
By Kaan Serin published
News But he'd be happy to return to his character in live action either way

Another GTA 6 delay is unlikely as "historically" Rockstar is "very good" at meeting solid release dates like with Red Dead Redemption 2, says Take-Two boss
By Kaan Serin published
News GTA 5 and Red Dead 2 were only delayed before being given concrete launch dates

Rockstar's arguably "been putting out a new GTA release a couple of times a year," says Take-Two CEO who reckons GTA Online updates could count as "standalone" games
By Kaan Serin published
News "If you go back 15 years, it would have counted as a standalone title"

Bungie's Marathon alpha includes designs lifted from an indie artist without pay: "Clearly my work was good enough to pillage for ideas"
By Kaan Serin published
News Bungie says it's "conducting a thorough review" of the situation

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii lead avoided ship-based games like Sea of Thieves and Assassin's Creed to make "something uniquely Yakuza-like"
By Kaan Serin published
News Ryosuke Horii wanted to do things the Yakuza way

GTA 6 fan theories are now focusing on the smallest details, from a potential Manhunt tattoo to a background film made by GTA 5's Michael
By Kaan Serin published
News And some fans reckon Michael might pop up in the sequel

Canceled Amazon MMO Blue Protocol was as dead as it gets, but it's now getting a gorgeous reboot this year – rideable capybara included
By Kaan Serin published
News Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is another anime-infused open world that looks like a lush time with friends

Marvel Rivals players slam a new item that skips losses in ranked, but NetEase tries to calm everyone down by promising it "will not be for sale"
By Kaan Serin published
News "What in the mobile gaming is going on here?"

The Kingdom Hearts 4 drought is over after 1,131 days as new screenshots of the RPG reveal another Keyblade, playable Mickey Mouse, and more
By Kaan Serin published
News The world-spanning Disney game looks even better than it did three years ago

For a free update, The First Berserker: Khazan devs cooked up a Soulslike challenge so brutal that even a lead designer said "I probably wouldn't play that"
By Kaan Serin published
News Two new boss rush modes are due on May 15

Kingdom Hearts 4 looks 100 years away, but this 3D action platformer with its own sort-of Keyblades and Heartless might scratch that itch
By Kaan Serin published
News Duskfade looks beautiful, frantic, and just close enough to PS2-era action platformers

Xbox is giving away $214 worth of its PC games for just $10, including a Metroidvania banger and the best game from Marvel's Spider-Man devs
By Kaan Serin published
News There, I said it

Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says "sometimes we're white-knuckling to the landing," but with Borderlands 4 they've never "been in a better spot this far from launch"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Gearbox co-founder is very confident in the upcoming looter shooter

Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida says the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive he's most excited for is FromSoft's The Duskbloods: "Especially after Elden Ring"
By Kaan Serin published
News Over Mario Kart World or Donkey Kong Bananza

Solo dev who lives on a boat made a $6 game about a boat, and it's sold 50,000 copies in a month with 95% Steam positive reviews
By Kaan Serin published
News Environmentally friendly game Spilled! is becoming a big success for its developer

After "nearly a decade" of work, devs of brilliant roguelike FPS Roboquest call it quits: "It was never meant to be what is called today a 'game as service'"
By Kaan Serin published
News Roboquest left early access in 2023, but it won't be getting any more updates

Don't judge Borderlands 4's lack of minimap just yet - Gearbox boss says using it would be "extremely confusing" in the FPS' "big freaking world"
By Kaan Serin published
News Randy Pitchford thinks a compass works much better for the world Gearbox has built

With 100 endings and a script big enough to fill 60 books, "many countries declined to localize" Danganronpa creator's massive new strategy RPG
By Kaan Serin published
News The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy's first draft was apparently six million characters long

REPO dev has been joining and questioning players "incognito, in secret, through the random matchmaking" in the big update beta
By Kaan Serin published
News They're among us
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