Latest articles by Kaan Serin
Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"
News Shawn Layden thinks publishers should spent a little less time chasing Fortnite
Tim Schafer wanted to "compete" with classic D&D CRPGs like Icewind Dale by cranking up the fantasy in Brutal Legend: "Let's really exaggerate it"
News Double Fine's open-world genre-blender came from two unlikely sources
My favorite sports game of all time has a Steam Next Fest sequel with 8-player co-op, more brutal deaths, and a new extreme way to speedrun
News Lonely Mountains: Downhill gets a snow-covered sequel that's both zen and nail-biting in equal measure
"People ask about Brutal Legend 2 all the time and I'm torn about that" - Tim Schafer says he'd expand on the 15-year-old game's RTS bits for a potential sequel
News Double Fine looks back at the genre-blending open-world game
Steam Next Fest serves up a brutal FPS with no live service nonsense, just pure 1v1 arena shooting with Call of Duty's sweaty slides
News I love Straftat. I suck at Straftat
Promising turn-based RPG Clair Obscur confirms spring launch, but more importantly mocap legend Andy Serkis plus Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 actors
News The actors behind Gollum, Daredevil, and Shadowheart link up in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Stalker 2 studio "dedicated" to making post-launch fixes if needed because they "don't want this game to be forgotten in a week"
News The quintessential Eurojank series is trying to be less janky
Overwatch 2's brilliant new roguelike-inspired mode lets you mod abilities, create builds, and cry over the cut campaign's potential
News Season 13 adds the hero shooter's best new mode in years
Phantom Blade Zero producer reckons cultural differences are "an advantage, not a disadvantage" since games like Black Myth: Wukong are "fresh"
News CEO Liang Qiwei says "players will perceive unfamiliar themes as something fresh"
400,000 people flood GTA 5's starting area in the first day of GTA Online's new Left 4 Dead-style zombie mode
News North Yankton has its fans, I guess
Steam Next Fest's most-popular early demo is an open-world PvP FPS about building badass giant walking mech-bases
News Performance might be a major problem, but SAND is one to keep an eye on based on its concept alone
Lord of the Rings initially inspired Metaphor: ReFantazio, before Atlus "threw out" all its fantasy research to preserve "the originality that defines us"
News Katsura Hashino decided that Atlus' own ideas are what makes its games special
Huge Game Freak leak reveals Pokemon source code, unused designs, Switch 2 details, and unannounced Gen 10 games
News Unprecedented amounts of information are coming out of the Pokemon gigaleaks
Metaphor: ReFantazio's original fantasy world gave the Persona 3, 4, and 5 director "freedom" to work on ideas "that we couldn't put into other games"
News Persona's high-schooling setting put a "limit" on what was possible for Atlus
A dangerously good blend of Diablo 2 and Vampire Survivors just left early access after 17 months, instantly becoming one of 2024's highest-rated roguelikes
News Steam players have glowing things to say about Halls of Torment
New JRPG giant Metaphor: ReFantazio beats all Persona games to become Atlus' fastest-selling title and biggest Steam launch
News It's a fantastic start for Atlus' new fantasy JRPG
Dead Cells dev says early access is key to help them make good games, but "it depends on the game you want to do"
News "At the end, it's for the player. So you need to know what they think."
RuneScape creator delays his new MMO to November 6 at the last minute: "Apparently there is some sort of election thingy on the 5th - who knew?!"
News Perhaps the only game in history to be delayed because of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
Dead Cells developers felt "pressure" to match the roguelike's high bar in their next game: "It's awful and very, very cool at the same time"
News Windblown has very big shoes to fill
The Tomb Raider series has sold 100 million copies and is now getting three more remasters - including Lara Croft's worst-reviewed game
News Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered comes with the series' divisive Angel of Darkness
Datamined Destiny 2 files namedrop Marathon pre-orders, spurring speculation that Bungie's FPS reboot could rear its head soon
News External Marathon playtests were also underway just last week
There's new hope for Concord - PlayStation's FPS is still getting updated on Steam 6 weeks after going offline
News Firewalk Studios are still seemingly working on the troubled hero shooter
For the first time in 20 years, Football Manager is missing its fall release date - the devs "simply cannot compromise" by "rushing to release it in November"
News Football Manager 2025 has now been pushed back until next March
