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

Overcooked-like medieval fantasy game debuts with 90% positive Steam reviews and a kitchen full of anthropomorphic rats: "We’re rats, what did you expect?"
By Kaan Serin published
News Restaurats is a co-op cooking game where you can beat up angry customers

"You cannot satisfy everyone": Heroes of Might and Magic leads are treating Early Access like a "full release," but "don't expect that everything works like a charm"
By Kaan Serin published
News "There is a long road ahead"

GoldenEye 007 had a "strong influence" on Banjo-Kazooie's sequel because Rare devs spent "probably every lunchtime for a couple of years" playing the N64 FPS
By Kaan Serin published
News "It just felt like the next logical step"

Indie single-player MMORPG that's not actually an MMO is still "on track" to hit its 1.0 launch target, but that might still be 2 years away
By Kaan Serin published
News Erenshor 1.0 is coming... not soon, but it's coming

Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star "cannot wait" to join the cast of Warframe developer's new fantasy MMO Soulframe
By Kaan Serin published
News Jennifer English is lending her voice to yet another RPG

Asked about adding multiplayer to his single-player MMORPG, indie dev says he doesn't want players getting co-op FOMO: "The solo gamer is very underrepresented"
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's a huge undertaking to rewrite a game into co-op," Erenshor's dev says

The Legend of Zelda movie leak shows Nintendo's princess in her Breath of the Wild outfit, hinting that the film might be an adaptation of the 2017 Switch game
By Kaan Serin published
News Blue blouse, leather boots, fingerless gloves and plaited hair? Check, check, and check.

"Rockstar delaying GTA 6 is a flex": Analyst says the studio's "most valuable currency" is anticipation, so Take-Two is strategically polishing its $2.7 billion project
By Kaan Serin published
News "In an era of rushed live-service fatigue, Rockstar's commitment to 'finished games' is both retro and radical"

Arc Raiders players are divided after Embark Studios nerfed a perk that everyone was gunning for, but don't worry, the devs are thinking about "adding a skill reset mechanic"
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News "Balancing is important for us"

The Witcher 3's love triangle was added "pretty late" into the RPG's development, but CDPR's CEO calls it "a great decision"
By Kaan Serin published
News Yennefer or Triss? The choice still inspires steamy debates

Indie dev behind single-player MMO that sold 30,000 in its first month quit his job to make the game because he "would have forever regretted not trying" otherwise
By Kaan Serin published
News "Leaving my job to do Erenshor full time was really tough"

Helldivers 2 CEO says Arrowhead chooses to "stick to our design guns" like Elden Ring developer FromSoftware: "They don't compromise, they go for the connoisseurs"
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News Shams Jorjani doesn't want to chase "the widest audience"

Former Xbox exec Major Nelson praises Valve's Steam Machine as "choice is always good," but doesn't think it should be dragged into a console war: "Not everything needs a winner or loser"
By Kaan Serin published
News Valve's PC/console hybrid is already being pitted against Xbox, PS5, and Switch 2

Pokemon Pokopia doubles down on its weird pseudo-post-apocalyptic setting where humans are "gone," but maybe that's a good thing as they seem better off without us
By Kaan Serin published
News Surprised Pikachu face

Red Dead Redemption gets a new ESRB rating for Switch 2 and current-gen consoles, hinting at another re-release for Rockstar Games' cowboy epic
By Kaan Serin published
News But no signs of the long-requested Red Dead Redemption 2 update

Fallout: New Vegas director and RPG maestro Josh Sawyer says it doesn't matter how good a game's writing is if the pacing is bad: "Players are going to get tired of it"
By Kaan Serin published
News Obsidian writers have more sway than most studios, though

Epic Games and Fortnite's billionaire boss Tim Sweeney plays devil's advocate in the Arc Raiders AI debate, argues the tech could create "an even bigger opportunity" for actors
By Kaan Serin published
News "When tech increases productivity, competition leads to building better games rather than employing fewer people."

The GTA 4 story is "really dark" because Rockstar's co-founder was "single and miserable" while making it: "We constantly thought we may be shut down"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Hot Coffee scandal did a number on Dan Houser

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."
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