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
Helldivers 2 poll sees over 70% of 69,000 players complain about the game's "not great" and sometimes even "awful" ragdoll physics
By Kaan Serin published
News Though, some divers only have a problem with it when fighting certain enemies
"Compromises were made": Space Marine 2 devs admit the shooter's story was limited by its 3-player co-op, and they "could have done way more"
By Kaan Serin published
News If the three-person squad weren't permanently glued together, that is
Speedrunners are already tearing the new Zelda game apart, beating Echoes of Wisdom in less than an hour with only 4 hearts
By Kaan Serin published
News Zelda was done with her first solo adventure before lunchtime
As Persona devs dove into fantasy with Metaphor: ReFantazio, the JRPG's director got advice from Neon Genesis Evangelion's designer: "Don't let yourself be hemmed in"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I ended up meeting up with a bunch of different Japanese fantasy creators"
For a hot minute, the Blizzard game that morphed into StarCraft was a Star Wars RTS concept that went nowhere
By Kaan Serin published
News LucasArts' president at the time has no memory of the project, though
Horizon: Zero Dawn developer's next game may be Horizon Online as a third single-player game looks "a ways off"
By Kaan Serin published
News Aloy's taking a lil' break
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach already has a 2025 release date "decided," but Hideo Kojima can't say when "due to unforeseen circumstances"
By Kaan Serin published
News Kojima's baby is still incubating
Desperate to get another RTS off the ground, Blizzard developers reportedly pitched Warcraft 4 and a Call of Duty RTS that got shot down
By Kaan Serin published
News Warcraft 3: Reforged made a real-time strategy return tough
After 6 years of solo development, anime-inspired Metroidvania riffing on Cuphead relaunches on Kickstarter with a $1 goal and raises over $9000
By Kaan Serin published
News Also inspired by Hollow Knight and Attack on Titan
23 years later and Halo: CE speedrunning is about to change forever with newly-discovered glitches that add playable Flood and a flyable Pelican
By Kaan Serin published
News You can now climb the walls as a little alien parasite in Halo: Combat Evolved
Not to be outdone by the PS5 Pro's price tag, Hideo Kojima stuns in $1700 Death Stranding 2 jackets that are already sold out
By Kaan Serin published
News The Death Stranding 2: On the Beach jackets have enough zips to make Tetsuya Nomura jealous
Hideo Kojima debuts new Death Stranding 2 footage of the most detailed photo mode ever, more famous faces, and an Alan Wake 2-style musical number
By Kaan Serin published
News Mad Max's George Miller is here, alongside a music video starring five of those puppet guys
Persona studio "working to address" problems plaguing Metaphor: ReFantazio's PC performance in the weeks before launch
By Kaan Serin published
News The Prologue demo had problems with stuttering and framerate dips
Space Marine 2 developers wanted it to feel like a Xbox 360 throwback shooter, but "didn't know it was that obvious"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Gears of War comparisons finally make sense
Going the Resident Evil route, Capcom says that a Dead Rising 2 remake or remaster is "definitely possible"
By Kaan Serin published
News As long as Dead Rising: Deluxe Remaster does well enough
Astro Bot head says "it's difficult to comment on" why Final Fantasy 7's Cloud didn't make a cameo
By Kaan Serin published
News Square Enix had no representation in the platformer referencing PlayStation's entire history
HBO's The Last of Us season 2 trailer has a twisted hidden Easter Egg referencing the game's most brutal scene
By Kaan Serin published
News Eagle-eared fans heard something familiar
Balatro creator in disbelief as the roguelike hit tops mobile sales charts, beating Minecraft and Stardew Valley despite one pesky issue
By Kaan Serin published
News Localthunk reacts to their already-huge game blowing up in a new arena
After admitting he was a Master Chief fanboy years ago, Atelier Yumia producer says the crafting JRPG's "biggest reference" is Halo
By Kaan Serin published
News Combat Evolved shaped the upcoming alchemy RPG
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P knows you want an FF9 Remake but doubts a new spin on the JRPG could fit into a "single title"
By Kaan Serin published
News He'd also rather revisit Final Fantasy 3 anyway
"StarCraft is not dead at Blizzard" - Blizzard reportedly "incubating" another StarCraft shooter after its last attempts failed
By Kaan Serin published
News With a former Far Cry boss at the helm
The next Yakuza game is the most newcomer-friendly and "least shackled to past events in the Like a Dragon series" - all because its protagonist has amnesia
By Kaan Serin published
News Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii hits Goro Majima with some probably-temporary memory loss
Metaphor: ReFantazio demo launches on PC to framerate woes, but fans are already cracking fixes for the new JRPG
By Kaan Serin published
News The Persona team steps out on a wobbly foot
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