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
![MiSide screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RSjX9uWqYP2roDqaMJuXjQ-320-80.jpg)
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
![The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cmJp9iKB6Wa5CDv3miY4V5-320-80.jpg)
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
![Screenshot from Exit 8 showing a clean, bright passageway of a Japanese underground metro with a single suited man walking toward the camera.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zMTLietnMFSPnZ4VpMZQZ3-320-80.jpg)
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 Remake Intergrade](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5qBeaBAr8z6R75dNgbnyZg-320-80.jpg)
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?
![ben starr dressed in harequinn makeup chomping down on a banana](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/em8NcZnDpq7MZAgzMDerVi-320-80.jpg)
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 artwork](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/d4RuRPLJHfAyUJiusHpZem-320-80.jpg)
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
![Alan Wake 2 screenshot showing a live-action Alan standing in front of a stage curtain](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/a3E28H28ikT64vS5VybVzU-320-80.jpg)
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"
![Ape Escape](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ACs8h4NA2W7tuwTuwTbQGQ-320-80.jpg)
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
![The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GvjHiteoG8FeCD9rwPEQPW-320-80.jpg)
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
![Goro Majima performing an attack during the upcoming PS5 game, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JrjUFFwYwvEV7Y4E5kgqHc-320-80.jpg)
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?
![Metaphor: ReFantazio's protagonist looks into the camera with a determined expression.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XCCJf25PGdyg4vDRGTemyF-320-80.jpg)
Metaphor: ReFantazio director wants to turn it into "Atlus' third RPG series after Shin Megami Tensei and Persona"
By Kaan Serin published
News A Metaphor sequel gets more likely every day
![Master Chief holds a beaming energy sword in our first look at Project Foundry](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vqAo4AmL8CdeMMcRBKBrjN-320-80.jpg)
Almost 100GB of classic Halo content has leaked online, including the 1999 demo from when the legendary FPS was in third person
By Kaan Serin published
News After multiple members of the Digsite modding team quit
![Baldur's Gate 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2X4BZ4o3Z43ojuSmAovh74-320-80.jpg)
All Steam users only spent 15% of their time this year playing games that actually came out in 2024
By Kaan Serin published
News 85% of our playtime was from games that came out in 2023 and before
![Arcane season 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GK3P8dVDUbxioyytgD5XAH-320-80.jpg)
Arcane writer says "it was always our hope" to get a character from the show into League of Legends
By Kaan Serin published
News And Mel might be the most likely candidate
![Anime cutscene in Tales of Rebirth showing a woman trapped in crystal or ice](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZaAHcma8yFpSVS4X3Yfzwd-320-80.jpg)
20 years after its release in Japan, one of the best JRPGs in the Tales of series has finally been translated thanks to fans
By Kaan Serin published
News Tales of Rebirth is finally playable in English
![Screenshot of Desktop Survivors 90, showing someone's Windows desktop with a YouTube tab open of a cat playing the keyboard.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9fyYGDSQveyTcBcuX5JmkK-320-80.jpg)
This roguelike's basically Vampire Survivors, but you play as off-brand Clippy on your very own desktop
By Kaan Serin published
News Desktop Survivors 98 comes out sometimes in 2025
![Kingdom Hearts PS2 screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bsDwc22a4woSvmRVJEiDEF-320-80.jpg)
When making Kingdom Hearts, the "one thing" RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura "wasn't willing to budge on" was a non-Disney protagonist
By Kaan Serin published
News "I wanted Sora's design to be a kind of 'grand compilation' of all the characters I'd drawn up till then."
![Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii screenshot showing Majima in drag](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/apNKTfPckvV63GwpeMryUF-320-80.jpg)
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii revives another Sega arcade classic that's never been ported - a true Yakuza games tradition
By Kaan Serin published
News RGG Studios is reviving a 1998 arcade cabinet in-game
![Shadow brandishes a gun in Sonic The Hedgehog 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ojSiRhMG2HbniHGPAAafXZ-320-80.jpg)
With Sonic, Persona, and Yakuza under its belt, Sega thinks making a subscription service like Xbox Game Pass would be "very interesting"
By Kaan Serin published
News How many subscriptions is too much?
![Key art for Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aEg5hMmX4Fq74npE4m8g7D-320-80.jpg)
Dragon Quest's creator says he's "never thought about retirement," while Final Fantasy's father reveals his next script is complete
By Kaan Serin published
News A conversation between two JRPG legends
![Screenshot from OFF showing a monchromatic scene haunted looking white-collar working looking down at a smaller spirte.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tEo5HuWHBsbkL7aPfrLYn3-320-80.jpg)
The cult classic RPG that inspired countless weird indies, including Undertale, is making a comeback after 16 years
By Kaan Serin published
News OFF is returning on Steam and Switch in 2025
![Final Fantasy 7 Remake](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2pTDsMTMafg2sCkcJUdZHM-320-80.jpg)
Tekken 8 boss gives broken Tifa stans hope after Clive got to join the fighter instead: "It's not like we're only limited to one character from Final Fantasy"
By Kaan Serin published
News Begin the Tifa summoning circle
![Four Helldivers lined up on base ship](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/G2pD4rzEBVY55kroy3DbaK-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2's mysterious black hole might finally come into play as Arrowhead tweaks its look and the new faction inches closer: "Helldivers, protect your holes"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Illuminate might have something big planned for the spaghettified planet
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