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

Balatro creator started "properly playing the game myself about a week before launch" and had "a pretty emotional moment" where he realized it's "actually fun"
By Kaan Serin published
News Well, of course

Kingmakers is a strategy game about taking on medieval armies with a gun, but its devs thought the giant mech was too much
By Kaan Serin published
News Bringing a giant mechanized titan to a sword fight isn't very demure

The Witcher 3 lead says "not many games" were trying to match the RPG back in 2015, and that meant "there was a risk" to making it in the first place
By Kaan Serin published
News CDPR's big risk paid off

The Sims rival InZoi has 300 people hanging out in each of its in-game cities and they all "interact with each other in real-time"
By Kaan Serin published
News A good recipe for mayhem

The Witcher 4 devs explain how Ciri's fighting style will differ from Geralt's: "He's nimble, but he feels like a block...she's liquid"
By Kaan Serin published
News Ciri's build and personality all influence a new fighting style in CD Projekt Red's sequel

True to the anime, Stardew Valley's hottest mod adds two romanceable Demon Slayer dudes who are both "rude and standoffish" at first
By Kaan Serin published
News Genya and Sanemi seem to have retired to a peaceful life

Arrowhead reveals the Helldivers 2 ideas left on its cutting room floor, from 5-player squads to low-gravity planets and a whole new armor system
By Kaan Serin published
News I'd quite like to see floating Divers some day

With 18,000 glowing Steam reviews on their lovely debut game, this indie team's game about leading cute fantasy yaks up a mountain is instantly one to watch
By Kaan Serin published
News From the FAR team

Genre giants Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell might not be kicking like they used to, but underrated stealth gem Styx is coming back for another game
By Kaan Serin published
News Styx: Blades of Greed is sneaking out later this year

This Harry Potter parody game is more than just a meme - it's a co-op "comedic sandbox with a complete lack of safety nets" and 100% positive Steam reviews
By Kaan Serin published
News Secret Agent Wizard Boy's early access release has no negative reviews so far

"What the f*** is this?": Split Fiction's Josef Fares shuts down players upset by the game's two female protagonists
By Kaan Serin published
News The It Takes Two director doesn't "care what's in between your legs"

Balatro's first few hours generated over $600,000, "far more money" than the roguelike's creator had ever made: "It is the most surreal day of my life"
By Kaan Serin published
News Its launch was 10-20 times bigger than LocalThunk thought it would be

Yet another Respawn shooter has reportedly been canceled, following the studio's Star Wars FPS and rumored Titanfall Legends game to the grave
By Kaan Serin published
News It's reportedly EA's third Respawn cancelation in just over two years

Changing your pants in Monster Hunter Wilds also changes your most important weapon: the little knife you use to carve beasts, with at least 25 different skins available
By Kaan Serin published
News And Capcom never brings attention to the little detail

Rumored Gears of War Collection reportedly includes campaign co-op for the OG Xbox 360 games, but no PvP multiplayer
By Kaan Serin published
News Unlike its older sibling Halo: MCC

Dark and Darker's legal battles are far from over as the popular extraction RPG has been pulled from the Epic Games Store again
By Kaan Serin published
News Ironmace is "currently working to understand the exact reasoning behind this removal"

"The Nintendo way is to take it that much further": Legendary Star Fox dev says the company's philosophy was to push games past the point anybody else "would be happy with"
By Kaan Serin published
News Takaya Imamura looks back on his iconic 32-year run

After dominating 2024 with Sonic, Persona, Yakuza, and Metaphor, Sega is the first company to become the year's best-rated publisher 3 times
By Kaan Serin published
News Atlus did some heavy lifting, but Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Sonic X Shadow held their own too

Assassin's Creed Shadows devs added a Canon Mode removing RPG choices after Odyssey fans "expressed their disappointment" over not having a "definitive" story
By Kaan Serin published
News Ubisoft now has a "reference story within the franchise"

Netflix's The Witcher casts its first game-exclusive character with a Witcher 1 deep-cut who Geralt first took care of in the 2007 RPG
By Kaan Serin published
News Season 4 adds a game-only character that'll make everyone go "Oh, him?"

Assassin's Creed's Kassandra stole the show in Odyssey, popped up in Valhalla, and she's still "very much alive" during AC Shadows
By Kaan Serin published
News The 2,000-year-old icon could still show up in the series' future

After Square Enix's attempt flopped, Avengers: Endgame and Doomsday directors are "open" to working on their own Marvel team-up game
By Kaan Serin published
News The Russo brothers' entertainment company is stepping deeper into the video game world

Marvel Rivals publisher indefinitely delays its other hero shooter on Xbox and PS5 2 days before its free-to-play launch
By Kaan Serin published
News FragPunk is still set to come out on PC tomorrow, however
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