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

With Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox, hopium for a Halo crossover is at an all-time high even if some divers are really against the idea
By Kaan Serin published
News ODSTs are probably more likely than Master Chief himself, though

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Season 2 is officially happening with CDPR and Studio Trigger back for the "standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077"
By Kaan Serin published
News It'll also be on Netflix

Despite layoffs at Xbox's Rare, Crash Bandicoot 4 and Spyro remake devs are reportedly among the studios "really interested" in a new Banjo-Kazooie game
By Kaan Serin published
News And they're apparently "being listened to"

Marvel Rivals has thousands of comic book characters to choose from, so the devs are taking notes from player feedback: "We consider these votes to be highly valuable"
By Kaan Serin published
News Your fave might not be too far behind

As Hollow Knight: Silksong gets 7 new Steam updates in less than a week, the SKONG community reaches levels of cope hitherto unseen: "The wait is almost over"
By Kaan Serin published
News Or is it?

Borderlands 4's jetpack and grappling hook were prophesied 6 years ago through a Borderlands 3 joke poking fun at the era's FPS tropes by shooting them into space
By Kaan Serin published
News Who is laughing now?

Nintendo combats big budgets with games that only need "shorter development periods" alongside $80 Switch 2 behemoths like Mario Kart World
By Kaan Serin published
News $10 Welcome Tour, anyone?

Marvel Rivals is reheating more of Overwatch's nachos with a romance-themed season that's in a position to out-thirsty Blizzard
By Kaan Serin published
News Dataminers claim Season 5 is all about love

GTA 6 will "remain" the most expensive game ever, former Rockstar dev predicts, because GTA 7 will see the "bulk of the work" replaced by AI
By Kaan Serin published
News "We'll have to wait 15 years to see if I'm right or not."

Final Fantasy 9 fans have long thought Vivi's name came from his tragic background, but a new prequel book has a much sillier explanation
By Kaan Serin published
News Call him SixSix from now on

Despite rumors to the contrary, Perfect Dark developer confirms the canceled game’s awesome, Dishonored-riffing demo was actually real
By Kaan Serin published
News "The parkour is all real, the hacking/deception is mostly real."

Marvel Rivals is allowed to use characters from the last "85 years" of comics, and fans want everyone from a literal wall to a mutant who poops ice cream in the game
By Kaan Serin published
News Soft Serve? Big Wheel? Howard the Duck? Anything's possible

Reviving Hytale is such a risky proposition, its founder kind of "wants Riot to say no" to his offer for the Minecraft rival because it "makes no business sense"
By Kaan Serin published
News But he's doing it anyway

Stop Killing Games petition is 95% of the way to its 1 million signatures goal, a year after Ubisoft sparked the preservation campaign by taking always-online racing game The Crew offline
By Kaan Serin published
News But the initiative might need "at least 1.2-1.3 million"

The Witcher 4 narrative lead says CD Projekt Red "can't break" the stuff that people want from a Witcher game: "We have to do that"
By Kaan Serin published
News "A lot of the narrative lessons from The Witcher 3, we use them exactly the same way."

New Switch 2 game comes from the developer of some absolute DS classics, is designed for "adult women," and is doing something genuinely exciting for visual novels
By Kaan Serin published
News Dear Me, I Was... comes from the art director of Hotel Dusk and Another Code

OG Hytale founder confirms he "will reach out" to Riot Games about buying back the Minecraft rival: "The chances of revival are next to impossible… It's the least I can do"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Yes, I made the decision, I will give my best to save Hytale."

"I might never finish this game, so I'm releasing the demo": After 9 years, A Short Hike dev soft-cancels Paper Mario-inspired RPG but lets players try a build
By Kaan Serin published
News Adam Gryu puts his paper RPG on hold indefinitely

"Games are amazingly affordable": Former PlayStation boss defends $80 prices because stuff like Mario Kart provides "hours and hours and hours with just one purchase"
By Kaan Serin published
News And they haven't inflated as much as movie tickets, for example.

Capcom agrees Monster Hunter Wilds has an endgame problem, so it's adding "a new level of quest difficulty" and Talisman crafting to "broaden the range of builds"
By Kaan Serin published
News In updates coming later this year

Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe reportedly says he could "possibly" step in to save cancelled Minecraft-like Hytale, but he'd need to know "why it failed" first
By Kaan Serin published
News Eric Barone gets asked about if he'd ever help save Hytale

Cyberpunk 2 director says "mature games" used to mainly be about killing and sex, but The Witcher 3 was part of a "broader process" to change that as devs grew older
By Kaan Serin published
News "In that era between The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3, mature games were mostly associated with two things."

Link wanted for counterfeit as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 edition adds a new item duplication glitch for infinite rare materials
By Kaan Serin published
News As many diamonds as you like - they're super real, I promise
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