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

Nearly 4 years later, Hollow Knight: The Sanctuary, an expansion-sized mod resurfaces right on the heels of long-awaited Silksong news
By Kaan Serin published
News And more news should be coming in the weeks ahead

We asked Metaphor: ReFantazio's lead UI designer about RPGs that inspire him, and he name dropped a surprise PS2 sleeper hit from 25 years ago
By Kaan Serin published
News Koji Ise was inspired by a lesser known game that also has incredibly papery menus

Palworld dev explains what's going on with its slick Dead Cells-style "Metroidvania x Roguelite," which has its own team who "used to be at Pocketpair"
By Kaan Serin published
News The team still works in Pocketpair's offices, unconventionally, but they're somewhat separate

As the Oblivion remaster looms, fans hope the original RPG's viral goofiness makes it through unscathed
By Kaan Serin published
News Thank you, Bethesda jank

Palworld developer says reaching 32 million players is "unexplainable" and "a lot of people don't realize how much of an anomaly that is"
By Kaan Serin published
News One of a kind

To get through the Kingdom Hearts 4 news drought, Square Enix is re-releasing a 10-game collection full of other already re-released collections
By Kaan Serin published
news Kingdom Hearts All-In-One package (a bundle within a bundle within a bundle) is getting a physical launch in the EU

Mario Kart World borrows some tips from the other open-world racing epic Forza Horizon with a handy rewind feature
By Kaan Serin published
News If car parkour doesn't go your way, you can simply retrace your steps

Hideo Kojima confirms Death Stranding 2 features the traditional Japanese couriers that inspired the original's fiddly movement
By Kaan Serin published
News He's not called Sam Porter Bridges for nothing

Former PlayStation boss predicted the Switch 2 would be $100 cheaper than it is, but isn't irked by $80 for games like Mario Kart World as publishers shouldn't be "limited to a fixed price"
By Kaan Serin published
News Shuhei Yoshida thought the Switch 2 would have been $399

"We based our decisions on that selling 100,000 copies over 2 years, it did 200,000 copies in the first month": Indie publisher says planning small is key to its success
By Kaan Serin published
News Yogscast Games is "almost too realistic in terms of our projections"

Bungie thinks Marathon can coexist with games like Escape from Tarkov and help players get to "the survival storytelling a little bit faster"
By Kaan Serin published
News Wiping off the genre's usual jank to make everything more approachable

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's divisive weapon durability is getting a workaround, but it's locked to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition app
By Kaan Serin published
news Equipment Repair is a daily bonus you can unlock in Zelda Notes

FromSoft master modder brings their seamless co-op mod to Dark Souls Remastered, easing the wait for Elden Ring Nightreign and The Duskbloods
By Kaan Serin published
News From the modder behind Armored Core 6 and Elden Ring's co-op mods

"I looked it up and said ah, f***": As Balatro took over the world, another publisher was sweating over its own card roguelike – which LocalThunk then promoted himself
By Kaan Serin published
news Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers came out just a few months after Balatro

Marathon release date set for September, closed alpha coming this month – Bungie's extraction shooter is not free-to-play but we don't have a price yet
By Kaan Serin published
news The Destiny studio won't say how much it'll cost just yet, though

Hollow Knight devs originally wanted to make a "very small" Metroidvania and debated shaving $5,000 off its Kickstarter goal days before it went live
By Kaan Serin published
News Hollow Knight was at one point planned to be "like two hours or something"

Marvel Rivals Season 2 quietly made one big cheeky change without telling anyone by buffing all the male hero's assets
By Kaan Serin published
News Wolverine, Mr Fantastic, and more all get a small bump

Dethroning Monster Hunter Wilds and Split Fiction, this surprise roguelike has instantly become the best-rated game of the year
By Kaan Serin published
News 2025 has a new champ

One of Overwatch's most infamous abilities, Mei's freeze, may be coming back as a perk "in a different, less overwhelming way"
By Kaan Serin published
News It's 2016 all over again

Astro Bot's director sounds much more open to Final Fantasy bots than before, but it's still a "we'll see" situation
By Kaan Serin published
News All I can think about now is the possibility of a Tifa Bot

Before Nintendo even confirmed the Switch 2's mouse controls, Shovel Knight spin-off devs started making a co-op game with a cursed "Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative"
By Kaan Serin published
News Mouse Work devs started making a mice-centric game before Switch 2's mouse controls were official

After working on something "big and ambitious" with Xbox, the Spyro and Crash studio wants to tackle another iconic platformer: Banjo-Kazooie
By Kaan Serin published
News "I think we all can agree Banjo's been hibernating long enough, right?"

Former PlayStation boss says the platform wars are effectively over since "only the dog can hear" the difference between consoles now
By Kaan Serin published
News PS5 and Xbox Series X are "very similar," Shawn Layden says
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