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
For $25 you can either buy one Overwatch 2 Cowboy Bebop crossover skin or the entire classic anime on Blu-ray
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News But not both, because you don't have $50 in this imaginary scenario
14 years after Microsoft shut it down, Halo 2 gets new public servers thanks to an unofficial OG Xbox Live replacement
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News Good news for Mountain Dew and Doritos lovers
The Rise of the Ronin team used Ghost of Tsushima as a "reference," but hopes the open-world RPG's "Japanese-ness" stands out more
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News "I wondered why we couldn't release a game like Ghost of Tsushima back then"
Palworld creator wants to avoid "big-budget triple-A games" in the future as the hit survival game's profits are "too big for a studio with our size to handle"
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News Pocketpair is remaining small amid Palworld's giant success
Miyamoto confirms new Super Mario Movie from Illumination coming in 2026, but instead of a sequel, the film is "broadening Mario's world"
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News Series creator Shigeru Miyamoto is back in a producing role
The best time to play Dragon's Dogma was 12 years ago, and the second-best time is now while the RPG is on sale for $5 ahead of Dragon's Dogma 2's launch
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News Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is cheaper than... most things in this economy right now
Breath of the Wild hugely inspired the sequel to one of the first open-world games ever made: "You can go literally anywhere"
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News Outcast: A New Beginning lets you tackle objectives in any order
"I won't stop till I'm given a melee weapon": Helldivers 2 madman is fist-fighting their way through bugs with over 100 melee kills a mission
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News Punching up critters and robots
Multiple Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth leads describe how "tough" the JRPG's development was: "I honestly wasn't sure that we could put it all together in time"
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News The sequel was huge in every single way, to be fair
PlayStation pulls Stellar Blade demo off consoles after the RPG was accidentally made available, in a move it didn't even make for P.T.
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News An unusual move for Sony
PlayStation-partnered studio from former Black Ops devs shuts down after saying its Sony collaboration would bring "complete financial security"
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News Deviation Games had yet to reveal its debut game
600 Activision QA staff vote to form the biggest US game union to date: "As QA workers, we often have the weakest protections and lowest pay"
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News Workers from the Call of Duty publisher form Activision Quality Assurance United
Final Fantasy 14 wraps up 10-year anniversary celebrations with a whopping 14-hour stream featuring Yoshi-P
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News Lots to discuss with Dawntrail on the way
"Roughly half" of the Overwatch 2 roster is getting changes as director admits anti-healing Damage passive "may be pushed a bit too far"
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News Blizzard's attempt to keep all heroes "viable"
Team behind one of 2021's best indies is making a 3D Metroidvania with massive Zelda-like dungeons and two killer anime girls "fated to battle each other"
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News The Unsighted team is back with something quite different
2 years later, Elden Ring dataminer finally uncovers the RPG's original starting location and restores an alternate opening that makes slightly more sense
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News Melina and Torrent originally went for a beachside stroll
Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's Cosmic Exploration ditches the Stardew Valley-like paradise of Island Sanctuary for the collective MMO grind of Ishgard Restoration
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News Yoshi-P delves into the new planet-exploring feature
Final Fantasy 14 actor was "determined to not step away" from the MMO after finding fame in Netflix's Bridgerton: "The writing is almost Shakespearean"
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News The Wicked star isn't leaving G'raha Tia any time soon
Palworld breeder mad with power creates peak Lamball with rare traits to gift their wife: "No points in Work Speed since doing work is beneath God"
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News In Ball of God we trust
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director acknowledges the JRPG's wonky performance mode: "We hear you and we are currently working on an update"
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News With a release date not too "far away"
A 14-year-old MMO is getting spun off into an "adrenaline-fueled" action RPG that has you battle furry hunks
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News Vindictus is vindicated
Sonic Frontiers developers once found themselves in a state of crisis: "If we fail here, there will be no chance"
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News A make-or-break moment on the eve of Sonic's open world pivot
Ori studio is releasing its "precision-based" Diablo rival into Steam early access soon, but I'm more interested in decorating the RPG's buyable houses
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News A hack and slasher or a cozy life sim?