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

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?

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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?

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

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

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

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

Good news - Marvel Rivals is finally fixing its pesky mouse acceleration problem in next month's Season 1
By Kaan Serin published
News Marvel Rivals Season 1 is due to start sometime in early January next year

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto "very much" regretted making Super Mario Sunshine so hard as it should be something that even "Grandma and Grandpa" can pick up and play
By Kaan Serin published
News The Mario maker wanted to GameCube classic to be more playable for everyone

"We've been listening to the response" - Helldivers 2 is making amends with fans upset over crossover prices by giving away Killzone 2 items for free
By Kaan Serin published
News "The distribution of those items will begin shortly, in two waves."

After 17 JRPGs across 30 years, Bandai Namco is gearing up to release more Tales of remasters "fairly consistently" and "as much as possible"
By Kaan Serin published
News Following Tales of Graces f Remastered next month

After the PS5 Pro's less dramatic changes, PlayStation architect Mark Cerny says the next-gen will focus more on CPUs, memory, and machine-learning
By Kaan Serin published
News "We're not making PCs"
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