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

Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail trailer screenshot showing Wuk Lamat, a Hrothgar woman with fiery long hair, aboard a ship at sea
Final Fantasy 14 and Monster Hunter top new survey of Japanese players' most time-consuming games

By Kaan Serin Published

News Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG?

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Pragmata screenshot showing Diana, an android who looks like a little girl with long blonde hair, using what appears to be a hacking ability
Pragmata's Diana was almost given a bob cut to make the game cheaper to develop

By Kaan Serin Published

News Capcom had doubts in the middle of development

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Forza Horizon 6 acura chasing massive mech in mech my day showcase event
200 million new Xbox players weren't enough to offset falling revenue, CEO says

By Kaan Serin Published

News Asha Sharma thinks Xbox will finally start to grow this year, however

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth characters
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth modder says fine, I'll do it myself, fixing the JRPG's wonky lighting

By Kaan Serin Published

News "It's so impressive how much better the lighting looks with this mod," fans say

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Screenshot from Final Fantasy 14 Evercold's extended reveal trailer, showing a cat-eared character shooing off a big, armored bird atop a cliffside.
Final Fantasy 14 Evercold's new DPS job to be revealed in October, and we already have big clues

By Kaan Serin Published

News Stay tuned for Fan Fest in Japan, then

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Cyan Worlds
Reveal of first new Myst game in years confirms it's already been canceled, devs tease new projects

By Kaan Serin Published

News "For a variety of reasons, this project couldn't move forward at the time"

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot featuring one possible male Rook
Dragon Age veteran says a series comeback would be difficult with EA's graveyard of dormant IP

By Kaan Serin Published

News BioWare legend Mark Darrah isn't hopeful for the RPG series' future

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Aerith in Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Final Fantasy 6, 8, or 9 remakes would need even more games than the FF7 trilogy, Yoshi-P warns

By Kaan Serin Published

News At least, if the JRPGs were remade in the same fashion

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Mario riding on the back of Yoshi with an explosion erupting in the background during Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is hiding an unused "joyful zone" area where Mario can't stop somersaulting

By Kaan Serin Published

News Every zone's a joyful zone for Mario, but this one's extra special

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Final Fantasy 14 Chort
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P doesn't quite get the community hype around Chort: "Just why?"

By Kaan Serin Published

News "Honestly speaking, I just don't know why this is such a thing," Yoshi-P says

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Resident Evil Veronica trailer screenshot
Resident Evil remakes allow Capcom to release yearly games in the series, producer says

By Kaan Serin Published

News Without remakes, making annual RE games "would be quite the undertaking"

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GTA 4
GTA co-creator says he loves physical media, but digital games have their own benefits too

By Kaan Serin Published

News As PlayStation plans to scrap game disc production

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Halo: Campaign Evolved Master Chief standing behind the lifeboat pilot as they approach Halo
Halo Campaign Evolved shows love to Craig, the ugly Halo Infinite brute who became an internet meme

By Kaan Serin Published

News The internet icon has a bit of an origin story in Halo Studios' remake

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Edward Kenway looks out across the sunny, verdant Great Inagua island from a vantage point in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced director isn't ruling out a Mirage-style challenge system

By Kaan Serin Published

News "It's going to take time to understand if it's something we can build," Richard Knight says

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God of War Ragnarok
A new God of War game starring Kratos is already in development at Sony Santa Monica

By Kaan Serin Published

News Sony Santa Monica's Cory Barlog: "Oh, f***, did I just announce the next Kratos game?"

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God of War Laufey warrior Faye mid air with sword
PlayStation announces God of War Laufey release date set for February

By Kaan Serin Published

News Days before Persona 4 Revival and Xbox's Fable reboot

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Halo Master Chief against bright light
Halo: Campaign Evolved's $70 early access launches to "mixed" Steam reviews

By Kaan Serin Published

News Were you blinded by its majesty? Or did you need to log in first?

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Screenshot from Beast of Reincarnation, showing a sword-wielding warrior walk through a river with a huge white dog by her side.
Trained by decades of Pokemon, devs take petting the dog to a new level in Beast of Reincarnation

By Kaan Serin Published

News He's Mew to this

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Screenshot from Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition's Baltic Powers DLC, showing an army on horseback riding through a forest during sunset.
New Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition DLC looks like the expansion that was canceled last year

By Kaan Serin Published

News The Baltic Powers comes out this September

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Halo: Campaign Evolved Master chief shooting towards the camera as a hunter runs up from behind
Secret Halo: Campaign Evolved ending strongly hints that another Halo 2 remake is in the works

By Kaan Serin Published

News Finishing the fight... again?

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The Lich King from WoW points a sword to the screen
Blizzard fires World of Warcraft dev after using "development-only spells on a live realm"

By Kaan Serin Published

News "We're confident this incident was isolated to one individual."

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The Sims
European Commission clears EA's controversial $55 billion buyout and Saudi-led ownership

By Kaan Serin Published

News One step closer to owning Battlefield, The Sims, Mass Effect, and more

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The Helldivers 2 and Warhammer 40K crossover is getting a full reveal on July 30

By Kaan Serin Published

News Tune in for some grimdarkness

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Kingdom Hearts Wonderland
Ex-Disney CEO can't even remember why he green lit Kingdom Hearts all those years ago

By Kaan Serin Published

News Got it memorized, Michael Eisner?

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Key art of Poinpy, showing a green blobby character bouncing over a larger, blue cat-like blob who's licking its lips.
One of the best modern platformers is back from the dead, escaping Netflix Games jail for good

By Kaan Serin Published

News Downwell developer's bouncy platformer, Poinpy, is now free for all

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