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
Despite Palworld's success, Game Pass needs the likes of Call of Duty or GTA 6 to become sustainable, former senior PR lead says
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News Xbox Game Pass needs the "world's biggest games," he argues
First major Manor Lords patch takes aim at enemy AI, underpowered archers, plus "overly high ale consumption" - and adds a steep tax to prevent gold hoarding
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News The city-builder cracks down on gold hoarders and boozy villagers
Former Helldivers 2 lead writer didn't think anyone at Arrowhead "was expecting Malevelon Creek to be a thing" before it turned into the Galactic War's deadliest battleground
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News Improv helped the team react to players without breaking the in-universe immersion
God of War: Ragnarok is reportedly the next PlayStation exclusive coming to PC with an announcement "imminent"
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News Following Ghost of Tsushima's PC port, due next week
Xbox president swerves question about closing Hi-Fi Rush and Prey teams, says "success for each game and studio is really unique"
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News "There's no one size fits all for us"
This dark new Metroidvania is already 2024's second best-reviewed game, making it a perfect tonic to ease my Hollow Knight Silksong blues
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News Animal Well hits all the right notes for gothic bug lovers
Helldivers 2's new SMG gives Stalkers a taste of their own medicine with a stun-locking effect that slows them right down
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News Included in the new Polar Patriots Warbond for your pleasure
Manor Lords player pushes the city-builder to the limit by building a 3,000-strong 'village' that only has 1 market
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News Really puts the city in city-builder
Fallout 76 players appear to protest Xbox's studio closures by directing nukes at Phil Spencer's MMO camp
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News The Microsoft Gaming CEO hasn't yet made a statement about the closures
Terraria creator and indie publisher channel their inner Kendrick vs. Drake with an online feud: "I've sold more copies of Terraria than all your games combined"
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News Hip-hop's biggest beef infects game developers
Hi-Fi Rush lead reacts to Xbox exec asking for "smaller games that give us prestige and awards" - right after closing studio that made prestigious, award-winning, smaller game
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News Xbox Game Studios boss had some eyebrow-raising comments
Revenue from game subscriptions like Xbox Game Pass has barely grown in 2 years, potentially explaining Microsoft's studio closures
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News The megacorp is now reinvesting in "high-impact titles"
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom supercharge the series as Switch Zeldas account for 40% of all sales
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News BOTW and TOTK have sold over 50 million copies combined
Star Wars Outlaws lead explains how relationships with criminal factions "lends itself very well for an open-world game"
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News Letting us role-play as the non-committal Han Solo-type
EA boss doubles down on commitment to AI, believes "more than 50% of our development process" will be impacted
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News Andrew Wilson also expresses desire for AI to impact games in the same YouTube impacted film
Helldivers 2 players get mixed signals around the Eruptor nerf as one dev calls the changes unintended and another says it's still "absolutely viable"
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News Removing explosive shrapnel saved players from friendly fire, but also nerfed the Eruptor's damage output
Hades 2 roadmap reveals the roguelike will be in early access "at least through the end of 2024," while devs add to the "biggest, most replayable, most feature-rich game we've made"
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News Hades 2 promises new weapons, regions, and ways to customize the hub area
A month after Nintendo killed 3DS and Wii U servers, eight final players beat a 14-year-old record held by Halo 2 superfans
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News The last Halo 2 players held on for 25 days
Helldivers 2 Steam rating nosedives as one dev says refunds and the 145,000 negative reviews "gives us more pull in discussions with Sony"
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News Helldivers 2 now holds an "Overwhelmingly Negative" rating based on recent reviews
Avowed and Cyberpunk 2077 leads weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3 setting a new standard for RPGs: "Baldur's Gate is a D&D game, we're not going to start rolling now"
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News But it might make some choices weirder, in all the good ways
Helldivers 2 has been pulled from Steam in 170 countries without PSN access, while Valve ignores its own policy to issue refunds for players with over 100 hours
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News Steam only issues refunds for players with less than 2 hours of playtime in-game, normally
Helldivers 2's PSN mandate won't stop players in unsupported regions from playing the game, while devs look "for better options"
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News Arrowhead won't "force people to either break Sony TOS or not play the game"
Manor Lords player complains about undead animals taking up space, dev pops up to say "I fixed it already – will be added to the next patch"
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News Ox corpses won't stick around for too much longer