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

"We were scared as hell when Silksong was announced to release on our day," indie dev says, but "now it seems it was a blessing in disguise"
By Kaan Serin published
News Jetrunner benefitted from the Hollow Knight black hole

Silksong release pushes Kingdom Hearts 4 fandom over the edge after 3 years with few updates, leaving fans to invent their own form of silkposting fueled by Genie memes and nonsense
By Kaan Serin published
News Skongmania, again

Helldivers 2 CEO knows "we're not getting a passing grade on performance and stability" right now, but another 60-day action plan wouldn't be enough to fix everything
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead's Shams Jorjani says "the fixes that are required are deep engine stuff"

Subnautica 2 takes the crown on Steam's Top Wishlists chart after Hollow Knight Silksong finally releases, despite its $250 million lawsuit
By Kaan Serin published
News Steam has a new most-wishlisted game

GTA 6 apparently pushes us beyond AAA and into "AAAAA" territory, industry veteran claims: "It's just bigger than anything else"
By Kaan Serin published
News GTA...AAAA?

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles devs blur the line between remake and remaster further, say the new strategy RPG is neither
By Kaan Serin published
News Square Enix opens a whole new can of worms

Helldivers 2 patch goes live "ahead of schedule" to calm angry divers, but it doesn't seem to address Into the Unjust update's biggest problems
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead Game Studios is moving fast

"We actually did put Daniel Craig in there": Hitman developers secured the 007 First Light license by modelling James Bond's face onto Agent 47's body
By Kaan Serin published
News IOI wanted to show the game's "not necessarily about only shooting and cut scenes"

"You just delayed Silksong another year thanks to this idea": As the 6-year wait for the Hollow Knight sequel finally ends, the community says goodbye in the most absurd ways
By Kaan Serin published
News Silkposters, stand down

A new "chaotic roguelike" inspired by genre top dog Balatro quietly came out months ago, but still has 100% positive Steam reviews and its free demo totally proves why
By Kaan Serin published
News Omelet You Cook has literally perfect user reviews

Haunted Chocolatier was announced almost 4 years ago, but don't worry, Eric Barone says Stardew Valley 1.7 won't "hinder" the development of his next life sim
By Kaan Serin published
News The ghost-ridden life sim is apparently unaffected by the next Stardew Valley update

Square Enix would rather ask all its legendary JRPG devs the meaning of life than announce an FF9 remaster, and Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida says he's found no meaning "at all"
By Kaan Serin published
News Yoshi-P is still looking

As AAA games try to push $80 price tags, Hollow Knight Silksong leaks suggest it'll only be $5 more expensive than the first game
By Kaan Serin published
News Modest for a game that's been in the making for eight years

Lego Batman devs have "never" adapted older movies, TV shows, and comics before, but Legacy of the Dark Knight will create "one definitive, essential, epic story of Batman"
By Kaan Serin published
News "So it's a fusion of all those iconic moments that you remember"

"There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update": Creator ConcernedApe confirms another update to the immortal life sim hot off a new Haunted Chocolatier tease
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News At the Stardew Valley concert

The FromSoftware modder who put Halo maps into Dark Souls is back with an equally absurd but exciting mod: "I ported Morrowind to Elden Ring"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I was originally targeting the Dark Souls 1 engine, but found that it could not handle how dense the Morrowind landscape was."

Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P is "a maniac about One Piece," but his dream collab is still the RPG he's spent 1000s of hours in: "I love Diablo so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself"
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Yoshida is a Blizzard Entertainment fan

Former FPS pro Shroud says Valve's Deadlock is already "one of the best games ever made" and it's "just a matter of time" until people realize
By Kaan Serin published
News The shooter is still doing limited playtests

In the face of countless live service shutdowns, Danganronpa creator believes devs should be "taking responsibility" to give "players a sincere conclusion"
By Kaan Serin published
News Kazutaka Kodaka is giving Tribe Nine an unofficial web comic

Nintendo has more than Palworld to deal with – IP expert says Genshin Impact dev's new Pokemon-style game "clearly infringes" on a hard-to-avoid patent Pocketpair is accused of infringing
By Kaan Serin published
News Honkai: PokePal Wars

PlayStation's Final Fantasy-style action RPG launches after 11 years to 'Mixed' Steam reviews, so Lost Soul Aside devs are "actively working on optimizations"
By Kaan Serin published
News Complaints point at performance and animation

Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was in "a lot of debt" before the breakout RPG, a "really classist" reality for many industry performers: "How on Earth do you do it?"
By Kaan Serin published
News Jennifer English gets real about acting in video games

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs love feedback, but will stick to their guns when it comes to game direction: "Yeah, but no thanks, because we already have a very good idea that we believe in"
By Kaan Serin published
News "What is it we want to do? What's the story we want to tell?"
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