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

Resident Evil Requiem's GameStop listing seemingly leaks a second playable character and, no, it sadly isn't Leon Kennedy
By Kaan Serin published
News Sorry, folks

Assassin's Creed Shadows backlash won't stop Ubisoft from going down the dual-protagonist route in the future "if we have a good reason to do it"
By Kaan Serin published
News Backlash toward Yasuke and Naoe hasn't scared Ubisoft too much

Halo's Cortana actor says the direction Bungie gave her for the FPS was to sound like "the girl next door" that you "wanted to hang out with, but you're not in love with"
By Kaan Serin published
News Sorry, shippers

Assassin's Creed Shadows lead teases "things that are set up" in the open-world RPG "should keep happening in other projects and evolve" thanks to the Animus Hub
By Kaan Serin published
News So, stay tuned?

Fallout and The Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard's GOTY pick just so happens to be the current game of the year frontrunner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
By Kaan Serin published
News Join the line

Assassin's Creed Shadows associate director has a hot tip for the next Ubisoft studio taking on the franchise: "Pay more attention to parkour as its own pillar"
By Kaan Serin published
News Simon Lemay-Comtois has some words of advice for future AC devs

Arc Raiders devs had ambitions for "boss fights in that same arena of Dark Souls, Monster Hunter" but quickly realized the Arc are too unpredictable
By Kaan Serin published
News Embark Studios wanted "all of that compelling pattern recognition."

Slay the Spire 2 devs literally flipped a coin to decide between a new game or a sequel to their genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder: "The rest is history"
By Kaan Serin published
News Why the heck not?

6 years since BioShock 4's announcement, South of Midnight star thinks she might have had a role in the long-awaited FPS but there were so many NDAs she's not actually sure
By Kaan Serin published
News Either way, Adriyan Rae "worked on it very hard"

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain rejoins Obsidian, tells everyone to not bother guessing what game he's working on: "You're not gonna guess right"
By Kaan Serin published
News An RPG legend goes back to a legendary RPG studio

Hytale owner calls Minecraft "one of the greatest" games of all time, but his own sandbox is going in a "different direction" with crafting more like Terraria
By Kaan Serin published
News The blocky adventure games might not be as alike as once thought

Monster Hunter Wilds' next big update and turn-based spin-off RPG Monster Hunter Stories 3 get a dedicated showcase set for next week
By Kaan Serin published
News The Monster Hunter Showcase promises "all the info" on Title Update 4

Fallout and Wasteland veteran calls his new time-hopping RPG Clockwork Revolution "the most complex game I've ever worked on," teases we've only seen "a tiny glimpse" of what it's about
By Kaan Serin published
News Brian Fargo teases his next game coming "in due time"

Bethesda's Todd Howard tips his hat to Obsidian, says he invited the Fallout: New Vegas devs to the Fallout Season 2 set to relive the iconic setting
By Kaan Serin published
News "We know the folks at Obsidian well, love their work, and so we reached out to them"

Hytale won't be on Steam at launch as devs "do not see the necessity of it" and want to avoid bad reviews from "people that aren't as well-informed"
By Kaan Serin published
News Next month's Early Access won't be on Valve's storefront

As if Hellmire wasn't fiery enough, Helldivers 2 just added magma planets so you can 'accidentally' push friends into lava pools: "Arrowhead spent so long cooking they overheated the planet"
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's over, rocket devastator, I have the high ground"

Metroid Prime 4 recasts Samus as a Hades 2 and Dispatch actor replaces Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale, continuing the Nintendo Switch 2 era's trend of introducing new talent
By Kaan Serin published
News Super Mario characters aren't the only ones with new voices

As Splitgate 2 prepares to release for a second time, design director says the team has handled "a challenging situation with honesty, humility, and grit"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Halo x Portal FPS un-launched after a series of controversies

Hytale's returning owner has hatched a genuinely ingenious marketing strategy: repeatedly telling everyone the game "isn't good," but like, only for now
By Kaan Serin published
News Early Access might be rough, but that's what Early Access is there for

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Jennifer English says it was "hard" playing two characters in the RPG: "I had to find the subtlety of it being the same but different"
By Kaan Serin published
News Voicing Maelle and Alicia was difficult

Ghost in the Shell director and Death Stranding 2's pizza guy has "deep respect" for Hideo Kojima games, but hasn't been able to pull himself off Fallout 4 for 8 years
By Kaan Serin published
News Mamoru Oshii can't quit Bethesda's post-apocalyptic wasteland

Team Cherry finally answers to the crimes of Silksong's Bilewater: "We just love a big swamp. We wanted some kind of poison status for ages"
By Kaan Serin published
News "It also acts as something of a final test in Act 2."

"After Baldur's Gate 3, I didn't think we'd be in this position": The team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can't quite believe they've matched Larian's award wins
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's absolutely wild to be here"
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