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
Stardew Valley creator says the game's name "just came to me," after the original "was not pleasant to say"
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News Sprouting names out of nowhere
Steam's surprise JRPG hit of the year almost has more players than Persona 3 Reload and Infinite Wealth combined
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News Granblue Fantasy is soaring
Enshrouded players are literally going deep on the survival game's building systems, with underground homes to rival the halls of Moria
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News Don't tell the elves
Apex Legends patches out movement exploits, developer tells malding cheaters to "kick rocks"
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News Respawn removes some unfair advantages, irking cheaters
7 years later, Persona 3 Reload seems to squash a fan theory that connected the JRPG to successor Persona 5
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News The 'Boy With A Yellow Shirt' is no more
Palworld's Lifmunk Effigies promise to improve successful capture chances, but some players are seeing the exact opposite results
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News Anecdotal evidence or legit bug?
Verdicts seem to be reversing on Diablo 4 Season 3 after a substantial patch buffs Echo of Malphas
By Kaan Serin published
News After community backlash reached a boil
Obsidian wants Avowed to be a "challenging" RPG that's more complex than "black-and-white, good-versus-evil morality"
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News Breaking away from the moral binary
Gears of War's Cliffy B gives up on returning to the series: "If they were smart, they'd enlist me"
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News "It's time to move on"
Palworld explorer gets extra lucky, catching a Level 45 Pal with a 0.03% chance of success while critically underleveled
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News Never tell Jormuntide the odds
Elden Ring player about to max out their real-life frenzy meter after spending 35 hours bravely explaining "the entire lore"
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News Fromsoftware's vague lore tidbits invite such epic videos
ConcernedApe recommends a new save file for Stardew Valley 1.6 "to see everything in context"
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News But continuing with an existing farm shouldn't be a problem
Palworld players are already prepping for PvP, like this trainer who stashed 300 Spheres that can catch other people's Pals
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News Catch 'em all means other players' creature friends, too
Avowed lead reveals there's "no one perfect build" in Obsidian's classless RPG: "There's gonna be choice and consequence for what you kit out”
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News So you can mix and match the guns, wands, and shields however you want
Tony Hawk marries Hades in this skateboarding roguelike that has you murdering ancient Gods, coming next month
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News Helskate checks all the right boxes
Holy crap, Dragon's Dogma 2 has a way bigger world map than the original RPG
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News Glimpses of the world map promise a huge dark fantasy adventure
Palworld isn't launching with Ark and Rust's "lawless open PVP" as "Palworld ain't that kinda game, gamer"
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News Setting itself apart from Rust and Co.
JRPG Christmas comes early as Persona 3 Reload and Granblue Fantasy: Relink both break street date
By Kaan Serin published
News A week before their official release dates on both counts
Norman Reedus adds fuel to Death Stranding 2 title rumors: "I'll be waiting for you on the beach"
By Kaan Serin published
New DS2, or Death Stranding 2, was previously just a "working title"
Palworld lets you literally “get high off your balls” with a glitch that shoots players into the sky
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News Those Pal Spheres have more than one use
Slick sci-fi action RPG talks like a Souls game and walks like Nier Automata, and it could have some of 2024's coolest bosses
By Kaan Serin published
News AI Limit could be our next Soulslike fixation
Palworld becomes only the sixth Steam game to reach one million concurrent players, beating Cyberpunk 2077 in the record books
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News The highest concurrent peak for any paid game in Steam's history
The Last of Us Part 2 modders attempt to reverse its most heartbreaking death, cutting Ellie's 25-hour revenge tale down to two minutes
By Kaan Serin published
News An alternate ending for the grim sequel