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
"We've been listening to the response" - Helldivers 2 is making amends with fans upset over crossover prices by giving away Killzone 2 items for free
By Kaan Serin published
News "The distribution of those items will begin shortly, in two waves."
After 17 JRPGs across 30 years, Bandai Namco is gearing up to release more Tales of remasters "fairly consistently" and "as much as possible"
By Kaan Serin published
News Following Tales of Graces f Remastered next month
After the PS5 Pro's less dramatic changes, PlayStation architect Mark Cerny says the next-gen will focus more on CPUs, memory, and machine-learning
By Kaan Serin published
News "We're not making PCs"
Manor Lords' next big update adds the city builder's first new maps and lets you build bridges to stop drunk villagers from drowning
By Kaan Serin published
News You'll soon be able to construct villages in Swiss Valley and Winding River
Sony becomes the largest shareholder in Elden Ring and Dark Souls' parent company, despite acquisition chatter
By Kaan Serin published
News Sony now owns 10% of Kadokawa, the massive anime publisher that itself owns FromSoftware
Valuable Pokemon TCG cards are reportedly being used to commit money laundering Poke Crimes
By Kaan Serin published
News Even criminals are hunting for shiny Pokemon
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead asks thirsty PC players to not make "inappropriate" mods after FF16's Clive got swiftly unrobed
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Hamaguchi has a polite request ahead of the PC port's release
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director wanted to add an "episodic story" DLC, but decided finishing Part 3 was the team's "highest priority"
By Kaan Serin published
News Development on the Remake trilogy's finale is now underway
In a year of brutal layoffs and closures, Helldivers 2 gave its studio the "financial stability to keep going" and "keep making the games that we want"
By Kaan Serin published
News "We really kept the Arrowhead way"
Path of Exile 2's new update lowers the cost of respeccing, adds far more fast travel points, and turns skitter golems into walking bombs
By Kaan Serin published
News Grinding Gear Games details its last update before the new year
Beware of Helldivers 2's new vehicles - Arrowhead were trying to maximize "laughter-per-minute" with High Command's cars
By Kaan Serin published
News "With everything we're adding, we want to get these chaotic, tense, fun moments"
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is one of the best-selling games in Bandai Namco history: "A nice surprise in a year that's been kind of rough overall," says analyst
By Kaan Serin published
News Sparking Zero is also the best-selling Dragon Ball game to date
The Witcher 4's Ciri sounded completely different because, yes, she has a new voice actor that "truly brought Ciri to life"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Witcher 3's Jo Wyatt isn't returning
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle might not be the end as Lucasfilm agrees "there's a lot of space in between the films"
By Kaan Serin published
News More Indy games could be "super interesting"
Just like Tetris, someone's found Balatro's "true ending" by chasing a score so high that it actually crashes the game
By Kaan Serin published
News "Now I can rest..."
He's just like us - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "was so excited" about The Witcher 4, "when Ciri removed her hood, he almost stood up"
By Kaan Serin published
News One of us, one of us
Helldivers 2 lead thought it would bang, but not that hard: "We were prepared for having 150,000 players peak CCU"
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead hadn't prepared for 800,000 divers trying to jump into the game at the same time
As the live service wars continue, analyst says games like Black Myth: Wukong, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 prove it's hard to predict the next hit: "All bets are off"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Right now, these kinds of games are the ones that are winning"
After Concord and Suicide Squad's failures, Elden Ring Nightreign director isn't worried since FromSoft doesn't "base our game design" on industry trends
By Kaan Serin published
News FromSoftware "want it to be clear that this is what we wanted to make"
Slay the Spire 2 is another roguelike juggernaut as the deckbuilder reaches one million Steam wishlists, even before debuting gameplay
By Kaan Serin published
News Mega-Crit's sequel is now the storefront's 13th most wanted game
Harrison Ford praises Troy Baker's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle performance, years after arguing "nobody else" could be Indy
By Kaan Serin published
News The Hollywood icon crashed The Game Awards 2024
The Horizon curse is far from over as PlayStation's Zero Dawn multiplayer spin-off might bump into Elden Ring once again in 2025
By Kaan Serin published
News Elden Ring Nightreign is offering the chance for a rematch next year
Elden Ring Nightreign director calls the co-op spin-off a "short RPG" for how it condenses the base game into 40-minute rounds
By Kaan Serin published
News Shrinking what FromSoftware does best into shorter multiplayer matches
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