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 screenshot showing Melina, a young woman with short copper-y hair, staring ahead as flames rise behind her](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8jdwBqJxh7r8GHwBaYfURG-320-80.jpg)
Elden Ring's Hidetaka Miyazaki jokes he's not great at presidenting because "95% of what I do" is still "directing games"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I really get my hands dirty"
![Avowed screenshot Xbox Series X](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LoLdwXqVAvRvhqQhTZXGDa-320-80.jpg)
Avowed director pushes back on the Skyrim comparisons, says the RPG is "a lot closer" to Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity and The Outer Worlds
By Kaan Serin published
News Avowed does what Bethesdon't
![Halo 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/syhZrX6Zqp9zZuAgPmirNM-320-80.jpg)
After 20 years, Halo 2 excavators get the stealth missions Bungie scrapped up and running for modders to revive
By Kaan Serin published
News Sneaking in shadows, enemy alert tiers, and alternate routes across the moon were all prototyped
![Carl Johnson rides a motorcycle and fires a submachine gun into the night in GTA: San Andreas.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5GzyX5ocSuV9mUb4gAG8HP-320-80.jpg)
GTA San Andreas used "real gang members" to record voiceover: "We showed them the scripts and they were like, 'we wouldn't say that'"
By Kaan Serin published
News According to Rockstar Games veteran Lazlow Jones
![GTA 6](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hBWx3UpU2Je2zJqrHLyUQW-320-80.jpg)
With Fable and Doom: The Dark Ages coming in 2025, Xbox lead wants to avoid the elephant in the room: "Many are going to plan around GTA 6"
By Kaan Serin published
News 2025 is shaping up to be an absolutely stacked year
![Star Wars Outlaws](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JUex4Pgcy6UUJRJJQs5cL7-320-80.jpg)
Star Wars Outlaws director says Uncharted wasn't a "reference point," but "if you're going to be compared to somebody, it might as well be the best"
By Kaan Serin published
News Let offbrand Han Solo and Indiana Jones fight
![Malenia seen in Elden Ring's cinematic story trailer.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q29kfVwTk9MfUnLow7MmTZ-320-80.jpg)
Elden Ring nerfs two of its most popular boss cheese strategies just in time for Shadow of the Erdtree
By Kaan Serin published
News A time for celebration and mourning
![Manor Lords](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EVLJYhGyMmLRhSzHBRHNDY-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords creator is sorry about bugs leftover from the city builder's latest patch, but promises the move to Unreal Engine 5 will sort out other "annoying" issues
By Kaan Serin published
News "Annoying engine things" are getting smoothed out
![Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LkadvUzyF4PHAcZr9pdxzC-320-80.jpg)
Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D isn't just an Octopath Traveler-style glow-up - the remake reportedly expands the iconic 1988 JRPG's story with famed creator Yuji Horii's oversight
By Kaan Serin published
News Not the Dragon Quest 3 you grew up with
![Fallout 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dQvE2Med5HMHmkDZ8xpnw5-320-80.jpg)
Fallout's co-creator was "convinced" the cancelled OG Fallout 3 could've shipped and been "a really good game" in 18 months, but money troubles got in Interplay's way
By Kaan Serin published
News Fallout Van Buren was coming along cleanly
![Cartoon Hideo Kojima holds a gold figure in a screenshot from Meme Mayhem.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bnp3hBGQiHJnU6MvLquvra-320-80.jpg)
Make memeified versions of Hideo Kojima and Gabe Newell fight in this bonkers Steam Next Fest roguelike
By Kaan Serin published
News Meme Mayhem is an auto-battling roguelike with some familiar faces
![An Inkling looking shocked as she stares at the Smash Bros. logo in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate reveal trailer.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/65cGCbs4MMSLmMd3qHZjmZ-320-80.jpg)
Defying Nintendo, just two players remain on the 3DS and Wii U's dead servers after the last Splatoon player's 68-day streak ends
By Kaan Serin published
News So long, squid kids
![Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot showing the RPG's companions standing as a united group, the main protagonist at front wielding a sword](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pv8fhUYcpCFYVhwTV6E7sY-320-80.jpg)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is "almost the total inverse" of Mass Effect's "big action, minor RPG" split, BioWare lead explains
By Kaan Serin published
News Minor action, big RPG?
![Helldivers 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VCowJCoSrUWana49UePiXi-320-80.jpg)
In a cruel switcheroo, Helldivers 2 sends players to "cleanse" bug babies right after we chose to save Super Earth children
By Kaan Serin published
News The new Major Order is twisted
![Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation Warbond diving](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cGLQZ9w52Ae29ZoHnrj7Ai-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2 tweaked one of its most popular Stratagems because players weren't using it as Arrowhead intended
By Kaan Serin published
News Democracy restored
![Two ducks fly over an island in a screenshot from Duckside](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vfL24o6zqSLBkTBR2XaKwb-320-80.jpg)
One of Steam Next Fest's biggest survival games makes a compelling promise: "Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck"
By Kaan Serin published
News 10 million ducks are hunted every single year... it's time to change that
![Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UR3xQE7FQqAuAHrgGVZJQX-320-80.jpg)
Despite Elden Ring's triumphs, director Hidetaka Miyazaki still hasn't made his "ideal fantasy RPG" - so how much better can FromSoftware games get?
By Kaan Serin published
News Elden Ring is "not quite it"
![A screenshot of Davrin seen in Dragon Age: The Veilguard's reveal trailer.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bZ83BEJRMzEJfGfNrSeTy6-320-80.jpg)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's "web-like" skill trees were "heavily influenced" by Final Fantasy 10 and 12's RPG progression
By Kaan Serin published
News The Sphere Grid and License Board provided inspiration for BioWare's next romp
![Destiny 2 The Final Shape art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cSAWXeh2nEra7VsVrJPLNP-320-80.jpg)
Destiny 2: The Final Shape debuts as 2024's best-rated game, beating Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Balatro
By Kaan Serin published
News Bungie closes a 10-year-saga in style
![Sea of Thieves](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Rf8xG8PPmYtpUmi5PyaY6c-320-80.jpg)
Xbox's big multiplatform olive branch Sea of Thieves was last month's most-downloaded PS5 game
By Kaan Serin published
News Xbox's Minecraft topped the PS4 charts
![Assassin's Creed Shadows cinematic screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TtK5U2vSbELVszGXen73QH-320-80.jpg)
Assassin's Creed Shadows will reportedly launch from the Animus Hub, previously known as Assassin's Creed Infinity
By Kaan Serin published
News A platform from which other Assassin's Creed games will launch
![Diablo 4 Mother's Blessing](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PegWNAxnVT9wmHYJda6SaP-320-80.jpg)
Diablo 4 tried to repackage Diablo 2's grind for the modern era, but series overseer Rod Fergusson says the "consumptive nature of a live service" made it unfeasible
By Kaan Serin published
News Rod Fergusson explains players have changed in the two decades since
![Dragon Age: The Veilguard](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/G7bvH5ERT8GufsVuAWEPQ3-320-80.jpg)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Baldur's Gate 3-style romance has "limits," says series' former lead writer, but "if they unapologetically lean into it as BG3 did it should be fine"
By Kaan Serin published
News You can romance all of Veilguard's companions