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

Mario Kart and Super Mario Maker collide in this Steam racing game where you make your own courses while driving: "I've lost hours testing my game"
By Kaan Serin published
News Mythic Kart Maker is a kart racer where you make the tracks

As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets snubbed at the 2026 Grammys, Assassin's Creed and Journey composer says he'd "happily trade places" with the RPG
By Kaan Serin published
News Austin Wintory would rather give his nomination to the French RPG

GTA 6 delay is not nearly powerful enough to kill fans' hope that somehow, somewhere, trailer 3 is coming soon: "Probably imminent"
By Kaan Serin published
News GTA 6 theory crafting never ends

Red Dead Redemption 2's brutal opening was supposed to be worse, but Arthur Morgan was "very, very nasty," so Rockstar Games "ended up cutting it"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I think the games ended up the way they were supposed to be."

Introducing the first soulslike god game: Spore and Dark Souls collide in what might be the weirdest life sim on Steam
By Kaan Serin published
News "Your worst enemy… is your own bad design choices."

Silent Hill 2 Remake's Xbox port release date leaked by Microsoft itself, and its imminent launch might be good news for the game's rumored Born From a Wish DLC
By Kaan Serin published
News The Xbox port appears to be coming out this month

"The delay for GTA doesn't change anything": Dev behind very canceled game Hytale thinks it has a better shot of resurrecting and launching before GTA 6
By Kaan Serin published
News We might even get Hytale before GTA 6

"I can't describe how happy this makes us": No Man's Sky celebrates Mass Effect Day with the return of Commander Shepard's ship
By Kaan Serin published
News Happy N7 Day

Cyberpunk 2077 devs offer support to spiralling GTA 6 fans following delay by reminding them of their RPG's infamously terrible launch
By Kaan Serin last updated
News Don't worry, Rockstar, CD Projekt Red has your back - I think

Now that Skyrim Grandma's retired, you can occupy your time watching this Minecraft Grandma who yells "die, die, die" at every zombie and skeleton in the game
By Kaan Serin published
News GrammaCrackers has been playing the blocky classic for about four months

GTA 6's delay reportedly had nothing to do with recent Rockstar Games firings and alleged union busting, but it could impact production further down the line
By Kaan Serin published
News The GTA maker was recently accused of union busting after firing over 30 employees

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead slams Square Enix's push to automate 70% of debugging with AI: "The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid"
By Kaan Serin published
News Larian's Michael Douse says QA workers "know what is good and what is bad before the audience does."

MissingNo walked so Pokemon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimensions could run, as the new DLC lets you officially go beyond the Level 100 limit for the first time in the series' 29-year history
By Kaan Serin published
News Thanks to the expansion's "hyperspace levels"

"Rockstar, you're disgusting": Fired GTA 6 devs protest outside studio offices after dozens of unionizing employees were accused of leaking "confidential information"
By Kaan Serin published
News "All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar."

Former FPS pro Shroud says Arc Raiders should win GOTY over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, even if he thinks "multiplayer gamers are the minority"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I've never voted for anything ever"

Square Enix's multiplatform plan is already working, but it still wants to follow up a Dragon Quest roguelike and Dissidia Final Fantasy with more mobile games based on "major IPs" and "automate 70% of QA" with AI
By Kaan Serin published
News The house of Final Fantasy wants to "establish a competitive advantage in game development" with AI tech

"If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens": Former Gears of War art director reckons the Xbox shooter franchise lost its horror edge over the years
By Kaan Serin published
News Gears of War: E-Day is promising to go back to those horror-ish roots

Just Cause 5 "would be a no-go" because of studio departures, Avalanche co-founder says, but he would've loved for Xbox's canceled Contraband see the light of day
By Kaan Serin published
News The Just Cause movie is still going ahead

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser couldn't kill GTA 4's Niko Bellic as fans needed to be able "to play forever," so he killed Red Dead Redemption's John Marston instead
By Kaan Serin published
News John died so Niko could live

The Outer Worlds 2 takes the RP in RPG so seriously, some NPCs will call you out for walking around naked: "Should I be averting my eyes, or?"
By Kaan Serin published
News Obsidian Entertainment really thought of everything

Creating Red Dead Redemption 2 was "not that fun," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, as it wasn't "coming together" and was "over budget so much I didn’t want to think about it"
By Kaan Serin published
News RDR2 had a lot of doubters, according to the game's lead writer

Dan Houser says Rockstar Games only attempted GTA London once in 26 years because the series is “so much about America” that “it wouldn’t really have worked in the same way elsewhere”
By Kaan Serin published
News "You needed guns, you needed these larger-than-life characters"

Rockstar Games co-founder says GTA 6 is carrying so much hype “because they don’t come out that regularly” and the series has been “constantly innovating”
By Kaan Serin published
News Dan Houser says the wait makes a new Grand Theft Auto game all the sweeter when it launches

Mod team's unhinged quest to port The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind into Elden Ring is "almost already at full parity" for NPCs: "Damn, this project has hands"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Dark Souls of modding projects

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director isn't weighing in on the OG JRPG's infamous Tifa vs Aerith shipping debate, but after 10 years of looking at Cloud, "I just want what makes him happy"
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Hamaguchi has spent more time looking at the spikey protagonist than his own family, or so he feels
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