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
After pumping out Xenoblade Chronicles games for a decade and helping out on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Monolith Soft is now fully owned by Nintendo
By Kaan Serin published
News Nintendo has owned 96% of shares since 2011
Steam hits a record 39 million concurrent users as Path of Exile 2 and Marvel Rivals continue to pull massive crowds
By Kaan Serin published
News Gaming's very own Barbenheimer
After Starfield's strict companions, I'm glad Avowed's crew won't be "backseat driving and second-guessing all your choices"
By Kaan Serin published
News They'll still have lots to say about all your misadventures, though
"My 5 minute game took me like 5 years to draw by hand": one dev broke 50 pencils to make this gorgeous "interactive illustration"
By Kaan Serin published
News Short Trip stays true to its name, even if it took the developer years to make
Marvel Rivals seems to make good on its DPS surplus as dataminers discover The Thing and Ultron in files
By Kaan Serin published
News Duelists won't be dominating the hero line-up forever
PlayStation 2's GTA exclusivity came because Sony was "worried when we saw Xbox coming" and "it wasn't clear that Grand Theft Auto 3 was going to be as huge as it was"
By Kaan Serin published
News Sony got a little lucky with the GTA 3 deal
Fortnite Ballistic is the battle royale's first 5v5 FPS mode coming in just a few days, and it's aiming for a piece of Counter-Strike's pie
By Kaan Serin published
News Attackers and Defenders fight over a 'Rift Point Device'
Almost every quest in RPG Avowed can be started in multiple ways: "We want to just constantly foster that sense of exploration, wanderlust"
By Kaan Serin published
News Obsidian Entertainment's next game lets you do things "out of order"
Final Fantasy 7 Remake director had to swap his inspirations from The Last of Us to The Witcher 3 to make Rebirth's open world
By Kaan Serin published
News Director Naoki Hamaguchi played CD Projekt Red's beloved open-world game to learn a few lessons
Stalker 2 boss thought bugs would bother y'all more and expected "much less success," still wants to fix things until it's a game "90% of people loved"
By Kaan Serin published
News The FPS sequel has great ratings despite the anomalies
"Where did all the content go?": Monster Hunter rival Dauntless debuts to "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam reviews as players rip into the action RPG's overhaul
By Kaan Serin published
News The removal of weapon crafting seems to have rattled monster slayers
"I guess it's just easy to be anti-Palworld": Pocketpair developer responds to latest round of controversy as the survival hit squeezes past 20 other games at the TGAs
By Kaan Serin published
News A Players' Choice award is courting heated reactions
As over a million fans turn up for Path of Exile 2’s Early Access, devs warn of queues because that’s more than anything they “could have ever predicted”
By Kaan Serin published
News Grinding Gear Games is already planning to expand its server capabilities
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's big bad isn't bald due to hereditary hair loss, his age, or a stylistic choice: "Solas lost hair because of stress"
By Kaan Serin published
News Tearing apart the Veil is a high-pressure job, okay?
"The party never ends" in Splatoon-like shooter Foamstars, except it does because Square Enix is pulling the plug on new seasons – but not before a Nier: Automata crossover
By Kaan Serin published
News 2B and 9S continue to tour every game imaginable
An Xbox Series S saved its owner's life in a truck accident, and while it still "runs games surprisingly well," Microsoft is sending him a new one anyway
By Kaan Serin published
News "This console saved my life"
Dragon Age: The Veilguard directors say they would've loved to explore "what lies beyond the sea" and add new classes in the DLC we're never getting
By Kaan Serin published
News BioWare leads speak about adding a dedicated Blood Mage class and exploring beyond Thedas
Former Blizzard president reckons Marvel Rivals has too much in common with Overwatch, comparing it to a viral Horizon Zero Dawn lookalike others called "shameless"
By Kaan Serin published
News Mike Ybarra doesn't seem too excited about the new hero shooter
Former PlayStation boss says exploding AAA budgets squeeze out creativity as the "finance guys" hunt for their own GTA and find a "lot of copycats, a lot of sequels"
By Kaan Serin published
News "'Give me GTA 7, because I know how to plot that course.'"
Marvel Rivals' microtransactions might be even stingier than Overwatch 2 as streamers show off its in-game store featuring MCU skins
By Kaan Serin published
News If the new hero shooter uses the genre's usual $1=100 coins exchange rate
Monster Hunter Wilds' new boss won't let you gang up on it in co-op - you'll instead need "new ways of playing" to squash the spider-like foe
By Kaan Serin published
News Lala Barina isn't letting co-op teams rest on their laurels
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth shippers waited 27 years to see Cloud kiss Tifa, but the team only added it because they wanted "something more" than a hug
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Hamaguchi breaks down the shocking Gold Saucer smooch
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."
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