Latest articles by Kaan Serin
Former Dragon Age lead writer says being at BioWare was "glorious," but under EA it "surrendered more and more of its independence until we got to where we got to"
News David Gaider recalls the storied RPG developer's good and bad days
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Collector's Edition "sold out way faster" than expected, so all its cool merch is getting re-released without the base RPG for $119
News A second chance to grab its artbook, steelbook case, and music box
Cyberpunk 2077 ads teased Chicago for years and after comments from the OG TTRPG's creator, we might also know when the sequel takes place: "Coming in 2080"
News Cyberpunk 2 theories are swirling
Peter Molyneux's new game shares more than just the Albion name with Xbox's RPG - playtesters apparently said "Oh my god, I'm playing Fable"
News "And then they said, 'no no, it doesn't remind me of Fable, it reminds me of Black & White.'"
Embracer spins off Coffee Stain and 250 game studios under it, including devs of Satisfactory and Deep Rock Galactic, while rebranding The Lord of the Rings group
News Fellowship Entertainment is still in charge of Lord of the Rings, Tomb Raider, Kingdom Come Deliverance, and more
Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford sorta kinda apologizes over $80 "real fan" comment: "Nobody likes being taken for granted and it was not my intent"
News Prompted by an AI-generated Handsome Jack, of course
Mario Kart World devs who "aren't that good at Mario Kart" are "favorites" in the Nintendo office because they can be the best playtesters: "Oh, so you don't get that. Interesting!"
News Newbie-friendly offices
"For the price of one copy of Borderlands 4," Devolver says you can get 4 copies of its own co-op shooter – which Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford inexplicably says is "cheaper than a point of meth - probably has fewer side effects, too!"
News This has seemingly not helped the pricing backlash
Mario Kart World started development as an OG Switch game in 2017, but went open-world because MK 8 Deluxe perfected "the formula that we'd been following" for 25 years
News The swap to Switch 2 came in 2020
Fallout: New Vegas-inspired FPS Atomfall added to the "rise of the mid-tier game" along with Clair Obscur and did so "incredibly well," sequels are already in consideration
News Rebellion is even thinking about spin-offs for the very British shooter
Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"
News Larian Studios' Michael Douse chimes in on the controversy
Take-Two's CEO is probably the world's only person to refuse the chance to play GTA 6 because "I'm not a gamer" - his role is to "get out of their way"
News Strauss Zelnick thinks it's best to leave developers like Rockstar Games alone
God of War Kratos star Christopher Judge on watching Atreus' actor grow up alongside the boy: "He's a whole new mother****er"
News "You turned into a wonderful young man"
Cult RPG sequel Fantasy Life i's early access was due today, but delayed on Xbox at the last minute "due to an ongoing technical issue"
News The issue's now been resolved, just hours after its start time
Morale at Bungie reportedly at an all-time low as the iconic FPS dev investigates stolen assets in Marathon: "The vibes have never been worse"
News Bungie previously admitted that an indie artist's work somehow ended up in Marathon's alpha
Death Stranding 2 is Hideo Kojima's answer to James Cameron's Alien sequel: "We've introduced battles to give it this new dimension"
News Because "everyone understands Death Stranding’s world" now
Space Invaders creator says devs are "increasingly expected to listen to the sales team," but game creation "needs to be creatively led first"
News Tomohiro Nishikado thinks today's games need to be made differently
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors tripped up over French words a lot, but "if you don't like the way we say it, you can just go and play it with the amazing French cast"
News "I think their French is a little bit better. I can't prove it but I think it might be."
Take-Two boss makes lofty GTA 6 promises, despite sky-high hype: "Rockstar Games is trying to create the best thing anyone's ever seen in entertainment"
News "Not just interactive entertainment"
3 years later, these JRPGs from genre veterans are stuck in purgatory despite raising nearly $2.6 million in a combined Kickstarter campaign
News The new games from Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts devs, Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood, have been getting love online recently
Death Stranding and The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus doesn't think "anybody can understand" what's going on in Hideo Kojima's brain
News But he'd be happy to return to his character in live action either way
Another GTA 6 delay is unlikely as "historically" Rockstar is "very good" at meeting solid release dates like with Red Dead Redemption 2, says Take-Two boss
News GTA 5 and Red Dead 2 were only delayed before being given concrete launch dates
Rockstar's arguably "been putting out a new GTA release a couple of times a year," says Take-Two CEO who reckons GTA Online updates could count as "standalone" games
News "If you go back 15 years, it would have counted as a standalone title"
