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
![The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/t4tz4z6vMKprQaovmHvdzK-320-80.jpg)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom supercharge the series as Switch Zeldas account for 40% of all sales
By Kaan Serin published
News BOTW and TOTK have sold over 50 million copies combined
![Star Wars Outlaws Nix and Kay](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zYtJf6SwMeK4ZJnbjH86xn-320-80.jpg)
Star Wars Outlaws lead explains how relationships with criminal factions "lends itself very well for an open-world game"
By Kaan Serin published
News Letting us role-play as the non-committal Han Solo-type
![Battlefield 2042 screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ef8U3QMsKb2pARpCSd368D-320-80.jpg)
EA boss doubles down on commitment to AI, believes "more than 50% of our development process" will be impacted
By Kaan Serin published
News Andrew Wilson also expresses desire for AI to impact games in the same YouTube impacted film
![Helldivers 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zdiwidETy9fNPnFXFPHVxG-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2 players get mixed signals around the Eruptor nerf as one dev calls the changes unintended and another says it's still "absolutely viable"
By Kaan Serin published
News Removing explosive shrapnel saved players from friendly fire, but also nerfed the Eruptor's damage output
![Hades 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7D9D8ZCbDhsVf72tHegrfF-320-80.jpg)
Hades 2 roadmap reveals the roguelike will be in early access "at least through the end of 2024," while devs add to the "biggest, most replayable, most feature-rich game we've made"
By Kaan Serin published
News Hades 2 promises new weapons, regions, and ways to customize the hub area
![Key art for Splatoon.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qk5AyFjBXB4KEPddsVbWKG-320-80.jpg)
A month after Nintendo killed 3DS and Wii U servers, eight final players beat a 14-year-old record held by Halo 2 superfans
By Kaan Serin published
News The last Halo 2 players held on for 25 days
![Helldivers 2 Warbond](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RqUkpdCB8Mif79ohc3XoFg-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2 Steam rating nosedives as one dev says refunds and the 145,000 negative reviews "gives us more pull in discussions with Sony"
By Kaan Serin published
News Helldivers 2 now holds an "Overwhelmingly Negative" rating based on recent reviews
![Baldur's Gate 3 Gale and Tav looking up at aurora in the sky](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HTCp7FWXfCWkSSkW7YWrRP-320-80.jpg)
Avowed and Cyberpunk 2077 leads weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3 setting a new standard for RPGs: "Baldur's Gate is a D&D game, we're not going to start rolling now"
By Kaan Serin published
News But it might make some choices weirder, in all the good ways
![A screenshot from the Helldivers 2 opening, showing the Super Earth Spokesperson shouting.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hRx9K587iPRyZnyrCTXDg9-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2 has been pulled from Steam in 170 countries without PSN access, while Valve ignores its own policy to issue refunds for players with over 100 hours
By Kaan Serin published
News Steam only issues refunds for players with less than 2 hours of playtime in-game, normally
![Helldivers 2 Polar Patriots Warbond helldivers standing in snow](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/b3ABWi9vJPPz3UPvvxeqU-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2's PSN mandate won't stop players in unsupported regions from playing the game, while devs look "for better options"
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead won't "force people to either break Sony TOS or not play the game"
![Manor Lords](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jNRcgbntxnbzGdVXVah4Ni-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords player complains about undead animals taking up space, dev pops up to say "I fixed it already – will be added to the next patch"
By Kaan Serin published
News Ox corpses won't stick around for too much longer
![Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty V riding motorbike through night city](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tduDLKSmxzFBAr2fxwxdnX-320-80.jpg)
Cyberpunk 2077 lead reveals the smoke and mirrors behind one of the RPG's most unique quests: "Our cinematic team wanted to kill me"
By Kaan Serin published
News Nighttime dives aren't as simple as they seem
![No Rest for the Wicked](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6AAipgmWHNrVVA76zRuqxm-320-80.jpg)
Like the Ori Metroidvanias, No Rest for the Wicked director says his new ARPG starts with a rainstorm to pay homage to Zelda games as a "good luck charm"
By Kaan Serin published
News There's something about loud winds and angry rain that just sets the mood
![Halo Infinite season 2 last spartan standing mode](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PEVS46WME4uVszwJc457LT-320-80.jpg)
After 343 reportedly shot down a Helldivers 2-style ODST game, Halo Infinite players are making it themselves in Forge
By Kaan Serin published
News That dream ODST spin-off is now a reality... built in Forge mode
![Top-down shot of a Manor Lords village overrun with sheep](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dHaSn4PChpMbaMCCng3xLo-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords farmer raises 2,100 sheep and counting, immediately regrets defying the city builder's dev: "Send help, I'm drowning in wool"
By Kaan Serin published
News An exponentially growing sheep herd
![A screenshot from the Helldivers 2 opening, showing the Super Earth Spokesperson shouting.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hRx9K587iPRyZnyrCTXDg9-320-80.jpg)
Thousands of negative Steam reviews hit Helldivers 2 after players learn they need a PSN account to continue playing
By Kaan Serin published
News Sony announced mandatory account linking today
![Helldivers 2 Polar Patriots Warbond helldiver chargin purifier plasma weapon](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zqSn8oFkqzJVYjvzhhiNG-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2's new weapon is a "real tentacle-tearer," fuelling conspiracies about the Illuminate faction's return or another Terminid variant
By Kaan Serin published
News Psychic squids or the Terminid Impalers?
![The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eVZyhuVM5Hi8r8EdohSM3H-320-80.jpg)
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom builder masterfully recreates the tank from 1996's Metal Slug to devastate Hyrule
By Kaan Serin published
News The arcade classic bulldozes into Hyrule
![Screenshot from Escape from Tarkov showing lush greenery and two soldiers.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mQMvERcnLQsMu2x9yY4vPV-320-80.jpg)
Escape From Tarkov dev apologizes for paywalling PvE behind a $250 edition - will now open access to the mode in waves "for free"
By Kaan Serin published
News To all Edge of Darkness owners
![Manor Lords](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mXwpugvVsdMAvhaNVLyXMe-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords archers are a little "ineffective" now because they were totally overpowered before: "This will surely take a while to get right"
By Kaan Serin published
News The wrinkles that come with early access
![Fallout 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pr83jsBMmbdpMMTQvd3bE5-320-80.jpg)
Fallout vault mapper faces their biggest challenge yet with the map for the canceled game that would have been Fallout 3
By Kaan Serin published
News Find a vault near you, soon
![Escape from Tarkov](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JiXK6A2fGeJjHM2Xb46eCe-320-80.jpg)
Escape From Tarkov devs reverse course on $250 PvE mode, promise it'll be free for all when the game exits beta - but its early access is still paywalled
By Kaan Serin published
News Battlestate Games also triples down on its definition of DLC
![Exoborne](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uyubFLCa94JDsuH4tqU5AQ-320-80.jpg)
The Division director is coming for Escape from Tarkov with his new extraction shooter: "There's still an opportunity to be the best in this genre"
By Kaan Serin published
News Martin Hultberg doesn't think the PvPvE genre has reached mass market appeal yet