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
Elden Ring Nightreign is saying goodbye to FromSoftware's beloved messaging system
By Kaan Serin published
News Seen in everything from Dark Souls to Bloodborne
Tetris some towns together in this cute city builder brought back to life by Kickstarter after the studio "had to let everyone go" last year
By Kaan Serin published
News River Towns asks you to rejig entire towns with buildings shaped like Tetris blocks
Balatro creator shares the GOTY love with other indie games while giving out a "very prestigious Golden Thunk award"
By Kaan Serin published
News And Animal Well tops the list
OG Minecraft creator "basically announced Minecraft 2" in the oddest way, but he won't "sneakily infringe" on Mojang's work
By Kaan Serin published
News Chances that it actually releases are slim, though
Less than a year after launching 2024's best live service, Helldivers 2 creative director has already started working on "the next Arrowhead game"
By Kaan Serin published
News Johan Pilestedt wants to know what your "expectations and desires" are
A Balatro crossover, GOTY nods, and near-perfect reviews propelled one of 2024's hidden gems to its highest selling day months after launch
By Kaan Serin published
News New Years Day was 1000xResist's best sales say ever
Vanilla Skyrim reaches a whopping 2 billion mod downloads, surpassed only by Skyrim: Special Edition's 6.2 billion record
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News Easily the two biggest games on Nexus Mods
BioShock's Ken Levine calls his most iconic FPS "a very, very long corridor," but his next game Judas is "made very, very differently"
By Kaan Serin published
News "This may be a bit alienating to some readers - but they're basically a corridor"
Borderlands 4 CEO wouldn't call the shooter an open-world, but it is the "most open and free" game Gearbox has ever made
By Kaan Serin published
News Randy Pitchford says you'll be able to go as far as the eye can see without load times, including (maybe) the moon
Microsoft said "'Nah'" to the Halo x Doom crossover pitched for Amazon's Secret Level, but I'm crossing my fingers for Season 2
By Kaan Serin published
News Master Chief and Doom Slayer? The internet's been manifesting this one for decades
After 30 years of work on Capcom's Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma games, director Hideaki Itsuno has already started his "new project"
By Kaan Serin published
News The legendary director is keeping his next game under wraps
Black Myth: Wukong lead blames the missing Xbox port on Series S specs, months after Microsoft claimed the delay wasn't due to "platform limitations"
By Kaan Serin published
News Games can't release on Xbox Series X without working on the Series S
With Concord in the rearview, Halo Infinite dev is glad it's still kicking "in a climate where games can be shut down with little notice"
By Kaan Serin published
News And this is why you don't pull the plug on games at the first sign of trouble
With almost 40,000 positive Steam reviews, dev behind this winter's biggest horror hit "never expected MiSide to be so popular" and will "carefully consider future plans"
By Kaan Serin published
News MiSide just got a new photo mode to celebrate the game's great success
As Sonic the Hedgehog 3 tears up the box office, its writers now want to adapt The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: "We're putting it out there in the world"
By Kaan Serin published
News Nintendo's already taking their fantasy series into live action
Godzilla studio Toho is adapting one of the Nintendo Switch's most popular games - a liminal space horror set in Japan's metro
By Kaan Serin published
News The Exit 8 is getting the live-action treatment
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth producer says the JRPG sold well, but future games "cannot be exclusive to a single platform" anymore
By Kaan Serin published
News The end of PlayStation exclusive Final Fantasy games?
After 10 months, 3 Game Awards, and the downfall of global productivity, roguelike hit Balatro reaches a new all-time Steam peak
By Kaan Serin published
News Balatro's still going strong
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was successful enough that Disney reportedly "picked up the phone and wants more"
By Kaan Serin published
News Weeks after Lucasfilm Games boss expressed interest in the idea
The Remedy Connected Universe that ties Alan Wake 2 and Control is "just getting started" with no endgame in sight, says Sam Lake
By Kaan Serin published
News "I love making it deeper and expanding on the lore"
After Astro Bot paid tribute to dormant classics, PlayStation's CEO is "looking at opportunities to leverage past IP"
By Kaan Serin published
News Herman Hulst might have some ideas for the forgotten games featured in Astro Bot
20 years later, the first Trails JRPG is getting a remake because its developer doesn't know where to tell newcomers to start
By Kaan Serin published
News Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is giving newbies the perfect starting point
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is longer than the last Yakuza spin-off, but it's not the dev's fault: "The volume increased by itself"
By Kaan Serin published
News What else do you expect from Yakuza games?
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