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's director can't believe its music hasn't won more GOTY awards, but the shooter's composer is happy because he had almost quit games forever
By Kaan Serin published
News "What I thought was impossible came true."
Hideo Kojima confesses that Metal Gear Solid 2's motion capture was done using "trial and error" 25 years ago
By Kaan Serin published
News "But every day felt fresh and exciting"
Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content"
By Kaan Serin published
News "It makes your experience feel more personal to you."
Borderlands 3 and The Elder Scrolls Online director says AAA game studios are playing it safe since "you have people who get nervous because big money is involved"
By Kaan Serin published
News "You're getting people who don't need to be a part of the creative process explaining how the creative process works."
A veteran Palestinian developer living under occupation is crowdfunding a "pseudo-3D stealth" game to "share the catastrophe that has haunted generations"
By Kaan Serin published
News Dreams on a Pillow tells the story of the 1948 Nakba
After Cyberpunk 2077's rocky launch, The Witcher 4 CEO acknowledges the biggest myth in gamedev is a lie: "There's no magic"
By Kaan Serin published
News "There's only hard work and making sure you stay on the right course"
Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours
By Kaan Serin published
News "Other people at the studio were also like 'are we really not going to do this?'"
Arcane writer says they've been sitting on the show's final scenes, mostly unchanged, for 6 years: "We always kind of knew where we were going"
By Kaan Serin published
News Amanda Overton says "that Vi-Jinx scene, the very last scene between them, is nearly the same as when we wrote it six years ago."
New Genshin Impact-style dragon-riding RPG borrows from The Legend of Zelda's "freedom of movement" to let you fly across its entire open world
By Kaan Serin published
News Dragon Sword will soar onto PC and mobile when it's ready
Despite playing the hero in BioWare's latest, Dragon Age: The Veilguard's lead actor loved being evil in Star Wars KOTOR: "That feeling of power, it's seductive"
By Kaan Serin published
News Another BioWare RPG inspired the star of the studio's latest game
Terraria developer says "there is no way" its sixth final update comes out before 2025 because it's "committed to being a quality-first studio"
By Kaan Serin published
News Re-Logic reckons Terraria 1.4.5 will be "well worth" the wait, though
Riot Games cracks down on Valorant and League of Legends streamers who promote boosting, smurfing, and buying accounts
By Kaan Serin published
News Riot "may suspend access" for anyone taking sponsorships from boosting websites
Acquiring the parent company of Elden Ring and Dark Souls creator FromSoftware outright might be too expensive for Sony, Japanese analysts say
By Kaan Serin published
News Sony is reportedly only interested in Kadokawa's anime and video game divisions
The Boys showrunner wasn't "designing it to reflect reality," but the world became bonkers and started "to reflect the show"
By Kaan Serin published
News Eric Kripke says "the world changed to reflect the show," not the other way around
Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch
By Kaan Serin published
News The 20th anniversary update included some annoying changes for speedrunners
One GTA 3 veteran hid cheats in the code to stop hackers from finding them at launch, but his clever little trick accidentally tripped up speedrunners
By Kaan Serin published
News A lot can go wrong when you're tapping away at lightspeed
Gearbox was "honored" to invite a terminally ill fan to play Borderlands 4 early: "His courage, strength, and determination are an inspiration to us all"
By Kaan Serin published
News And it's "deeply thankful" to the community for helping it happen
Bloodborne servers will undergo maintenance on the same day as a potential PlayStation tease, so surely nothing bad will happen this time, right?
By Kaan Serin published
News December 3 might be the day remaster hopefuls have been waiting for, but don't bet on it
The Halo 2 Arbiter mission that Bungie scrapped 21 years ago has been officially restored as a playable Master Chief Collection mod
By Kaan Serin published
News Touch down on Alpha Moon, now reconstructed using assets leftover from Halo's Bungie era
While most CD Projekt Red devs are working on The Witcher 4, the RPG studio still plans to double Cyberpunk 2's team size next year
By Kaan Serin published
News Project Orion currently has 64 developers working on it
Dragon Age and Anthem producer says live-service games can "dramatically" fail as they forget they're competing with juggernauts like World of Warcraft as they are now, not as they were 20 years ago
By Kaan Serin published
News Mark Darrah has a warning for folks walking into the live service arena
As Troy Baker confirms he's in Naughty Dog's next game, director Neil Druckmann says it's the "most excited he has ever been" for a project
By Kaan Serin published
News The Last of Us co-director is giddy about the studio's unannounced game
With Sony in talks to acquire Elden Ring developer's parent company, one investor reportedly jokes that the cost is worth it just to get director Hidetaka Miyazaki
By Kaan Serin published
News Sony's in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the anime powerhouse with a 70% share in FromSoftware
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