Latest articles by Kaan Serin
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"
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"
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
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
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
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
News "What I thought was impossible came true."
Hideo Kojima confesses that Metal Gear Solid 2's motion capture was done using "trial and error" 25 years ago
News "But every day felt fresh and exciting"
Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content"
News "It makes your experience feel more personal to you."
Borderlands 3 and The Elder Scrolls Online director says AAA game studios are playing it safe since "you have people who get nervous because big money is involved"
News "You're getting people who don't need to be a part of the creative process explaining how the creative process works."
A veteran Palestinian developer living under occupation is crowdfunding a "pseudo-3D stealth" game to "share the catastrophe that has haunted generations"
News Dreams on a Pillow tells the story of the 1948 Nakba
After Cyberpunk 2077's rocky launch, The Witcher 4 CEO acknowledges the biggest myth in gamedev is a lie: "There's no magic"
News "There's only hard work and making sure you stay on the right course"
Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours
News "Other people at the studio were also like 'are we really not going to do this?'"
Arcane writer says they've been sitting on the show's final scenes, mostly unchanged, for 6 years: "We always kind of knew where we were going"
News Amanda Overton says "that Vi-Jinx scene, the very last scene between them, is nearly the same as when we wrote it six years ago."
New Genshin Impact-style dragon-riding RPG borrows from The Legend of Zelda's "freedom of movement" to let you fly across its entire open world
News Dragon Sword will soar onto PC and mobile when it's ready
Despite playing the hero in BioWare's latest, Dragon Age: The Veilguard's lead actor loved being evil in Star Wars KOTOR: "That feeling of power, it's seductive"
News Another BioWare RPG inspired the star of the studio's latest game
Terraria developer says "there is no way" its sixth final update comes out before 2025 because it's "committed to being a quality-first studio"
News Re-Logic reckons Terraria 1.4.5 will be "well worth" the wait, though
Riot Games cracks down on Valorant and League of Legends streamers who promote boosting, smurfing, and buying accounts
News Riot "may suspend access" for anyone taking sponsorships from boosting websites
Acquiring the parent company of Elden Ring and Dark Souls creator FromSoftware outright might be too expensive for Sony, Japanese analysts say
News Sony is reportedly only interested in Kadokawa's anime and video game divisions
The Boys showrunner wasn't "designing it to reflect reality," but the world became bonkers and started "to reflect the show"
News Eric Kripke says "the world changed to reflect the show," not the other way around
Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch
News The 20th anniversary update included some annoying changes for speedrunners
One GTA 3 veteran hid cheats in the code to stop hackers from finding them at launch, but his clever little trick accidentally tripped up speedrunners
News A lot can go wrong when you're tapping away at lightspeed
Gearbox was "honored" to invite a terminally ill fan to play Borderlands 4 early: "His courage, strength, and determination are an inspiration to us all"
News And it's "deeply thankful" to the community for helping it happen
Bloodborne servers will undergo maintenance on the same day as a potential PlayStation tease, so surely nothing bad will happen this time, right?
News December 3 might be the day remaster hopefuls have been waiting for, but don't bet on it
