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
![Monster Hunter Wilds](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XH4QfcD49jFyicHa4hMphF-320-80.jpg)
Don't like $70 games? Monster Hunter Wilds and Dragon's Dogma 2 publisher Capcom says wait 5 years and they'll all be $5
By Kaan Serin published
News Price reductions are always on horizon... unless it's a Nintendo game
![Koala bears break out of prison in a screenshot from Cuffbust](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ezhdy8c3EUgedVr6VL3nuS-320-80.jpg)
With 20-player jailbreaks, the new game from the viral creator of Choo-Choo Charles might be the next Lethal Company-sized multiplayer hit
By Kaan Serin published
News Jellybean koala bears escape prison, get high, and cause chaos in CuffBust
![A broken image of a woman's face drenched in red light in a teaser image from Half Mermaid's Project C](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n8ySmHQ3qm6NjZzivfW6aV-320-80.jpg)
The M3GAN and Get Out production company is investing so heavily in games that it's created the ultimate lineup for horror genre fans
By Kaan Serin published
News Six new games, from pixel farming sims to a new Sam Barlow-directed FMV adventure
![Baldur's Gate 3 Minthara, a drow with pale purple skin and light blonde hair, smirks as her face is covered in blood splatter](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NpUxhnk6UuFKDkZMY3wMgh-320-80.jpg)
Baldur's Gate 3 player loses Honor Mode save deep into Act 3, only to be rescued after Larian reconstructs a "custom save file" for them
By Kaan Serin published
News Support teams to the rescue
![Manor Lords screenshot showing medieval-style farm fields featuring autumn-esque colouring](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eEymKaBL8yajq3mYjymvNP-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords creator clarifies he planned to add regular ol’ walls in the city-builder's next update: "Wait, you guys thought I meant walls as in a siege system?"
By Kaan Serin published
News But the community simply recommends he takes a vacation
![Civilization 6's Leader Pass](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/awyXJdEdKwPZUHQHHsnz77-320-80.jpg)
2K Games teased another entry in one of its "biggest and most beloved franchises" - and it now seems to be strategy juggernaut Civilization 7
By Kaan Serin published
News Sorry, Bioshock and Borderlands fans
![KOTOR 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ndBCfkWoUgewqPRFjxRxhT-320-80.jpg)
A noted Knights of the Old Republic fan, The Acolyte showrunner would love to bring the fan-favorite Star Wars RPG to life: "It would be a really interesting story"
By Kaan Serin published
News With a focus on KOTOR 2's Kreia
![Helldivers 2 Polar Patriots Warbond helldivers standing in snow](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/b3ABWi9vJPPz3UPvvxeqU-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2 CEO says devs can have a doctor-patient relationship with their communities: "The patient is wrong, but they are also still in pain"
By Kaan Serin published
News Metaphorical pain, because Helldivers is just a video game, you see
![A knight bows before Miquella's Golden Cross inElden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rMdw5qUzUwsfuV6XiiNsFe-320-80.jpg)
For sheer install size, Shadow of the Erdtree is rumored to be bigger than all of Sekiro and almost a third of Elden Ring itself
By Kaan Serin published
News An expansive expansion on the horizon
![Fallout: New Vegas](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ssPXLtGsPYemnyBgTk2kUe-320-80.jpg)
Fallout: New Vegas director's sage advice for players who don't understand the RPG's divisive card game: "Try again"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Obsidian equivalent to 'git gud'
![Octopath Traveler 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DhK9245Aj6s3d9mMWS4faB-320-80.jpg)
Square Enix seemingly kickstarts its multiplatform approach by freeing some of its best JRPGs to cross the console divide
By Kaan Serin published
News The Octopath Traveler games have an odd history with exclusivity
![Little Kitty, Big City](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/C9TKaZqRpHTQUZg8NFfSt-320-80.jpg)
A Valve veteran spent his career "focused a lot on violence," before Portal 2 inspired him to make Little Kitty, Big City
By Kaan Serin published
News "The most fun I had working on a project was one that had the least conflict in it"
![Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/u5fvH8BCcvSj7m5ehvv2GY-320-80.jpg)
Don't worry, the Elden Ring DLC dims the exceedingly bright Bandai Namco logo so it can no longer hurt you
By Kaan Serin published
News FromSoftware nerfed it
![Terry poses with a cone hat in a screenshot from Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zJnawxAe5L67N3G7SupnnH-320-80.jpg)
My favorite thing about Breath of the Wild is all the mini-open-worlds it inspired, and another one just hit Steam with near-perfect reviews
By Kaan Serin published
News Drive to space in this zany open-worlder
![Tribesmen fight a big tiger in a screenshot from Soulmask](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kHMpC4xYwfdEpb7cri8vmS-320-80.jpg)
Another promising survival game strikes Steam and it's already sold over 100,000 copies - if you're hungry for more after Palworld and Enshrouded
By Kaan Serin published
News Soulmask is a new contender in the craft-y-survival genre
![GTA 6](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XoSWNN9JrGaGZ8gxaXPT5W-320-80.png)
Rockstar Games owner predicts AI, which has already impacted jobs, won't steal any jobs: "It's actually crazy. It's not going to make people irrelevant"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Take-Two CEO think AI could make development more efficient
![Guardians in Destiny 2 posing in Dnd gear](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QgueDjDFvJ57hxQKSGa3ue-320-80.jpg)
My Baldur's Gate 3 party would hate this Destiny 2 D&D crossover and its mind flayer propaganda
By Kaan Serin published
News Forged in the light of two worlds
![100 Pokemon Sapphire characters fill the screen in a challenge run](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Z3pT2LjPhQk7WGXaFAJBaQ-320-80.jpg)
Pokemon Sapphire engineer miraculously builds a working computer using "only assets that already exist in the game"
By Kaan Serin published
News Without using custom code and assets
![Balatro Joker card](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9Gq4KxfmsdkVnc5C6dsymF-320-80.jpg)
Roguelike hit Balatro's scrapped names include Hyperborean Hold 'em, Balatron, and other titles I can't stop thinking about
By Kaan Serin published
News Balatron, my favorite Transformer
![Helldivers 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/S9N55nKYTjaGJ5qdzFJB78-320-80.jpg)
Emergency Helldivers 2 hotfix addresses a nasty Major Order bug, so we can all go back to spaghettifying an entire planet
By Kaan Serin published
News While we wait for the balance patch to drop in two weeks
![Astro Bot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2v7yKoePzzCJGRFL6f4Dxh-320-80.jpg)
Astro Bot triples the PlayStation cameos with "over 150" VIP bots, restoring hope for a Bloodborne breadcrumb
By Kaan Serin published
News Our only crumb of hope
![GTA 6 trailer screenshots](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nudCJUNTTo7vw8Nksu4NNm-320-80.jpg)
CEO of Rockstar owner sizes up GTA 6: "The world's in a different place than it was when we launched GTA 5," and the sequel could be "unmatched in the industry"
By Kaan Serin published
News "The big and better only get bigger and better, and the mediocre go away"
![Helldivers 2 bile titan head exploding in intro cutscene](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2tkuSgmb8xbd8MDoGVw5zA-320-80.jpg)
A Helldivers 2 hotfix is dropping "as soon as possible" to squash a bug that's making the Meridia Major Order unnaturally difficult
By Kaan Serin published
News Dark Fluid drills are getting bashed by Terminids spawning directly under it