Kaan Serin

Kaan Serin

Freelance contributor

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

Grand Theft Auto IV screenshot showing a middle-aged man with short brown hair and dark sunglasses wearing a black suit jacket and white shirt posing with his arms open
GTA 4 producer wanted NPCs "to have their own lives," former lead says, but it was scrapped

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News Obbe Vermeij speaks on the early ambitions of GTA 4

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No Man's Sky head mod WinderTP
Sean Murray says No Man's Sky's peak was seeing the team "just meshing together"

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News "That's when I'm going home and I'm just buzzing about it"

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PS5 Pro
Sony ending PlayStation discs "was always going to happen," says analyst

By Kaan Serin Published

News Good for Sony, not so good if you like owning stuff

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Screenshot from Kingdom Hearts 4's Coco trailer, showing ghostly see-through versions of Donald Duck and Goofy standing in a modern day city.
Kingdom Hearts 4's Paper Mario-style Mickey Mouse sections are "very different from Sora's"

By Kaan Serin Published

News Co-director Tai Yasue says "you could create paper-thin Mickeys, giant Mickeys, a tiny Mickey, box Mickeys"

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No Man's Sky
Sean Murray says a "weight had lifted" when No Man's Sky players stopped bringing up its launch

By Kaan Serin Published

News "Every reply was laced with some slightly mean things" for years

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Key art from the unnamed Kingdom Hearts anime series coming to Disney Plus, showing a long haired character wielding a Keyblade.
Tetsuya Nomura tells Kingdom Hearts fans to "let your imaginations run wild" with the Disney+ anime

By Kaan Serin Published

News The series creator is in close discussions with the show's writers

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In The Witcher 3, Geralt and Ciri sit together beneath a tree and converse
The Witcher 3 lead says designing for player curiosity "really came to haunt us" early on

By Kaan Serin Published

News "For a few weeks, women were just dropping their babies, left and right."

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Sora wields a Keyblade themed after Pixar's Coco in a screenshot from Kingdom Hearts 4's D23 trailer.
Kingdom Hearts 4 comes out "late 2027," and Pixar's Coco is the first Disney world announced so far

By Kaan Serin Published

News Ending the long 8-year wait between games

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Gears of War: E-Day screenshot shows Marcus holding a bottle, smiling.
OG Gears of War lead says "wallbouncing in Gears" is like his cult classic platformer helping turn fans into furries

By Kaan Serin Published

News CliffyB has some thoughts about Gears of War's dominant meta

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GTA 6
GTA 6 fans don't "go around buying nerdy niche" games, indie dev says

By Kaan Serin Published

News "I'm pretty sure that's not the GTA audience," says Falconeer creator Tomas Sala

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Marvel Rivals Spider-Man
Marvel Rivals hasn't beat Overwatch yet, but Disney boasts it's "attracted 40 million players"

By Kaan Serin Published

News More than 20 million of them are under the age of 24

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Gears of War: E-Day screenshot
Gears of War: E-Day's Steam count has once again blown past the series record in its second beta

By Kaan Serin Published

News E-Day's second beta runs until August 17 on PC and Xbox Series X|S consoles

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Kingdom Hearts 3 Sora and Donald
As Kingdom Hearts 4 fans await a D23 update, Disney says the series is now a $1 billion franchise

By Kaan Serin Published

News One of only nine Disney gaming franchises to hit that milestone

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Gustave fights a mime
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's "untranslatable" inspiration is finally getting an English release

By Kaan Serin Published

News Horde of the Counterwind's English language translation comes out later this year

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Chimchar seen in the Pokemon anime.
Pokemon Bank shuts down next year, cutting off the only transfer path from older Pokemon games

By Kaan Serin Published

News You have around 200 days left for your 3DS-era pocket monsters

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Screenshot of one of Storm's MVP animations in Marvel Rivals, showing the superhero with lightning surging through her fingers as she looks to the sky.
Marvel Rivals devs respond to Storm summer skin controversy, promise to do better but say harassment "is not acceptable"

By Kaan Serin Published

News Many fans are accusing NetEase of racial bias

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Grounded 2
Grounded 2's second year of early access includes base moving, an expanded map, and more secrets

By Kaan Serin Published

News No 1.0 release date yet

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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 dialogue
The next Kingdom Come RPG has a release window, and thankfully there won't be another 7-year gap

By Kaan Serin Published

News Despite also working on another game based on The Lord of the Rings

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Doom: The Dark Ages character wincing
Doom developer slams Xbox: "They fundamentally don't understand art. They don't understand games"

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News "We're not the same iD, we're half the same iD."

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Overwatch characters dress like Sanrio mascots
Overwatch's resurgence drove Blizzard to its "first back-to-back years of growth" in 10 years

By Kaan Serin Published

News The power of Hello Kitty and K-Pop

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A screenshot of the moon in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Zelda: Twilight Princess wasn't enough, you can now run Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on IOS

By Kaan Serin Published

News "The decompilation community has been incredibly active this year."

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Party member Vincent Valentine, who has dark long hair and a red headband, raises a crystal in his hand in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation
A lost Final Fantasy 7 game has just been saved 20 years after its release

By Kaan Serin Published

News Dirge of Cerberus' even more niche spin-off is finally preserved

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The player-character in Starfield looks upon a snowy mountain, with a distant planet and its rings visible in the sky
"If I was in charge of Starfield, I would have not done it that way at all," Bethesda veteran says

By Kaan Serin Published

News "Even early on, I was drawing parallels to Mass Effect 1"

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Space Marine 2 4K texture pack shots
Baldur's Gate 3 star didn't believe she was in Space Marine 2 until the fan messages

By Kaan Serin Published

News "I guess I kind of forgot about it"

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GTA 6
Take-Two CEO says rising console costs are no good, but won't hurt the company as GTA 6 approaches

By Kaan Serin Published

News "I don't think it will slow us down any because... we're delivering experiences that people want"

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