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
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?
Indie developer unleashes an alarming 600 cats onto Steam and shows no signs of stopping with 800 more incoming
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News 100 Ninja Cats is the year's best-rated hidden object puzzler. MEOOOWWWWW!
With Helldivers 2 balance patch incoming, the game's CEO says weapons that score more kills aren't always "overrepresented" in successful missions
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News As some players think the Breaker shotgun is overpowered
Alan Wake 2 composer "violated one piano with adult toys" to create the horror game's nightmarish soundscape
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News So that's why Heralds of Darkness is such a bop
Developers behind Bioshock-esque FPS RPG finally give desperate players a new peek at the game, with literal breadcrumbs
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News I'm still hungry for more Clockwork Revolution
Indie founders did what most layoff-happy executives won't, totally slashing their own salaries for months, but say they still had to cut staff
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News The studio behind Deliver Us Mars lets go of some developers
Death Stranding was inspired by real Japanese couriers and that's sending fans who are just finding out 5 years later
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News Sam Porter Bridges was named like that for a reason
Helldivers 2 and Palworld teams call out "sad and frustrating" Steam copycats after fakes hit Valve's storefront overnight
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News Escape From Tarkov, Last Epoch, and other popular games have also been targeted
Elden Ring director can't stop making poison swamps, says Shadow of the Erdtree's one was a point of "introspection and reflection for me"
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News Would it be a FromSoft project without one?
Elden Ring DLC reveal ignites a fierce lore war, with some RPG scholars convinced the big bad Messmer was foreshadowed for years
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News Traitor? Orphan? Exile?
Speedrunner sacrifices precious time to perform Alan Wake 2's musical number during their run
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News The next TikTok trend?
Helldivers 2 servers are being raised to support 800k players to tackle long queues: "How crazy is this message from a studio of 100?"
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News Arrowhead Studios CEO says there might only be some "light queues"
This indie Metroidvania sequel is looking just as incredible (and melancholy) after a 3 year gap
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News Ender Magnolia is a much welcome follow-up
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's respect for the original JRPG's source material was influenced by a Disney live-action remake
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News Unlikely inspiration in a 2017 blockbuster
Nier Automata's 2B goes viral once again thanks to a fighting game collab that, like Yoko Taro's RPG, makes her skirt explode
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News Granblue Fantasy: Versus gets some valuable assets
Elden Ring director says FromSoft doesn't "set out to make a lot of these games and characters funny," it just sort of happens
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News Same way happy-crying happens
Indie Soulslike walks into a boss fight with FromSoft by announcing the same release date as Elden Ring's DLC: "We are no longer Maidenless"
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News The most brutal boss 'battle' since Malenia vs. Me
Fallout: New Vegas director reveals the RPG's most twisted Vault was inspired by the Haunting of Hill House's author
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News Shirley Jackson's most controversial shortie is behind Vault 11
League of Legends fighting game spin-off has such an odd title fans want the boring Project L codename to return
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News 2XKO because why the hell not?
Diablo challenger Last Epoch dips to Mixed reviews amid strained servers, but its founder thanks fans for "patience and kindness" anyway
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News As 150,000 players joined in its first 20 minutes of launch
Helldivers 2 quickly overtakes Destiny 2 and Starfield to become the biggest Steam launch from PlayStation or Xbox Studios
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News Concurrent player peaks keep reaching new heights
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Barret actor on playing the original JRPG: "This is awesome - I've never seen a Black character in an RPG!"
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News John Eric Bentley talks about the character's polygonal past
Baldur's Gate 3 player "invented an exploit" to somehow beat Honour Mode by only casting the RPG's worst spell 2,469 times
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News Hardest difficulty, meet most useless spell