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

PlayStation's Final Fantasy-style action RPG launches after 11 years to 'Mixed' Steam reviews, so Lost Soul Aside devs are "actively working on optimizations"
By Kaan Serin published
News Complaints point at performance and animation

Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was in "a lot of debt" before the breakout RPG, a "really classist" reality for many industry performers: "How on Earth do you do it?"
By Kaan Serin published
News Jennifer English gets real about acting in video games

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs love feedback, but will stick to their guns when it comes to game direction: "Yeah, but no thanks, because we already have a very good idea that we believe in"
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News "What is it we want to do? What's the story we want to tell?"

After 16 JRPGs across 37 years, the long-running Ys series is finally localizing the Nintendo Switch remaster of its overlooked PS Vita gem next year
By Kaan Serin published
News And it follows the last mainline game chronologically

Battlefield 6 won't actually boot stomp Black Ops 7, analyst says, because Call of Duty fans on "autopilot" will "buy it even if they complain about it"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Breaking it requires more than one awesome Battlefield release"

PS5 exclusive horror game bucks the trend, announces a delay to get out of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's way instead of Hollow Knight: Silksong
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News Dino Crisis spiritual successor Code Violet has been delayed

The impending Silksong release date drives droves of fans back to the OG Hollow Knight, which has doubled its Steam player peak 8 years after launch
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News 2017's Hollow Knight reaches a new peak

Dune: Awakening dev says player retention has been "extremely good" and the MMO's 10-year plan still has "so much to pull from" in the lore: "We'll go to new planets eventually"
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News Production director Ole Andreas Hayley would love to visit the Atreides home planet, Caladan

I did not expect a revival of the most obscure 1990s mascot platformer to have moves that rival Mario Odyssey, but that's what the Demon Turf devs are doing
By Kaan Serin published
News Bubsy 4D has the sauce

Former PlayStation boss says "no one is in touch with their fan base more than Nintendo" and even Sony "was never this in touch" with what players wanted
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News Shawn Layden wouldn't change much atop the Switch 2 maker

Former PlayStation boss says he greenlit Ratchet and Clank on PS4 despite Sony saying "no one wants to play that old game"
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News Around 80% of PS4 gamers weren't familiar with the brand "so for them, its a new game"

Two years and one Assassin's Creed Shadows later, Ubisoft is giving AC Mirage a "surprise" free DLC after saying it was done with the game
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News Another leap of faith

Valve's new Deadlock character places doors on walls to teleport across the map, and yes, it's also reminding me a bunch of Portal
By Kaan Serin published
News The Doorman uses doors, not portals, but still

The Blood of Dawnwalker "isn’t that big" because its small team with Witcher 3 vets would rather prioritize "layers" and "didn't want to make an open world for, like, 400 hours"
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News The RPG will take around 40 hours to complete on a normal playthrough

Ex-Sony boss would consider bringing back PlayStation All-Stars as it's "important" for the brand, even if it didn't live up to Nintendo's Super Smash Bros
By Kaan Serin published
News The fighting game crossover didn't reach the same heights as Nintendo's

'Hide from Silksong' delays hit indie roguelike and Metroidvania, devs say "we like a gamble, but this one is too risky" while another fears "competing with a phenomenon of that scale"
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News CloverPit and Aeterna Lucis are getting outta the way

1,679 days in, the strongest Silksong fan celebrates the release date after years of daily update videos with a fittingly dramatic speech: "Count that number and think about it"
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News They're now counting down the 13 days to Hollow Knight: Silksong's release

"We hope you enjoy Peak for the next two weeks": Co-op comedy devs acknowledge the incoming Hollow Knight Silksong-shaped black hole in style
By Kaan Serin published
News Peak recognizes peak

Marvel Rivals dev denies using EOMM, explains that an Overwatch-like role queue won't work because the game's tank and support heroes aren't interesting enough
By Kaan Serin published
News NetEase responds to complaints around matchmaking

You probably saw it coming: Persona 5 announces its 107th gaming crossover, this time with an Overwatch 2 event that's sure to bring some sick cosmetics
By Kaan Serin published
News Juno as Haru? Joker as Soldier 76? Morgana as?

Silksong devs tempt fate, tease "ambitious" DLC plans to add content to the long-awaited Metroidvania: "Hopefully we can achieve some of it"
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News Skongmania is far from over

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sicko beats the French RPG 33 times in New Game Plus, gets a run down to just 7 hours, and confirms "there's nothing new here – no hidden secrets"
By Kaan Serin published
News Over the course of 308 hours

Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke shares the RPG love, predicts the long-awaited Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 "is going to be big"
By Kaan Serin published
News After a two decade hiatus
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