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

As Marvel Rivals players get paid to throw games, devs threaten permabans for those who "deliberately sabotage matches"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Maintaining a positive gaming environment is a collective responsibility"

After 30 years, Pokemon Pokopia finally answers an important question for "the hardcore lore freaks"
By Kaan Serin published
News He got his dream, that's what

Former Ubisoft vet says Assassin's Creed developer is "hated" by "many of their own" devs, but there's still hope for it
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's tough to imagine Ubisoft making a big hit ever again," but all hope isn't lost

Slay the Spire 2 lead backtracks on Marathon "small indie passion projects" joke as the roguelike dominates Steam
By Kaan Serin published
News Mega Crit's deckbuilding sequel hit a Steam peak of over 314,000 players

Marathon stays competitive with Arc Raiders and hits Steam with 91% 'Very Positive' reviews: "Bungie cooked"
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's what you expect from a Bungie game. Feels like something between Halo and Destiny."

Arc Raiders was recording private Discord DMs, engineer claims in report, Embark rolls out hasty hotfix
By Kaan Serin published
News "Rest assured that your private and/or personal data was not sent outside your machine"

Marathon is already the top-selling new game on Steam, dethroning Resident Evil Requiem
By Kaan Serin published
News Mere hours before the Bungie FPS' launch

Dismissing Pokemon comparisons would make us "hypocrites," creature-collecting RPG devs say after $186,000 Kickstarter
By Kaan Serin published
News LumenTale: Memories of Trey is doing enough to stand on its own

Before Pokemon Winds and Waves, Pokopia crushes hopes for the Sound-type that fans have been begging to see for years
By Kaan Serin published
News DJ Rotom is the bearer of bad news

Despite contending with Final Fantasy 14, the 23-year-old FF11 is locking off a third server due to overpopulation
By Kaan Serin published
News The MMO's third server lockdown in less than a year

GTA 6 devs "must be quaking" over so much hype, Hell Let Loose lead says: "Is there too much that people are expecting?"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Everyone's gonna avoid GTA like the plague"

Resident Evil Requiem actor filmed with the lights off as Capcom tried to "make the situation" as scary as the game
By Kaan Serin published
News "...Without, you know, having a real-life zombie running at you"

Starfield reportedly gets its long-rumored PS5 release next month, ending two years of Xbox exclusivity for the RPG
By Kaan Serin published
News Just weeks after Todd Howard teased updates coming to the space epic

Helldivers 2 fan intent on challenging Arrowhead to beat the game's toughest challenge for $1,000: "No funny business"
By Kaan Serin published
News An impossible request for the sake of charity

Bungie wants more feedback on Marathon's controversial UI to make sure players can "read what's happening mid-fight"
By Kaan Serin published
News Bungie plans on iterating after Marathon's full launch

Resident Evil Requiem ties with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as users' best-rated game of all time on Metacritic
By Kaan Serin published
News And Leon Kennedy beats Cory in the House

PlayStation's allegedly making "a new franchise within the God of War universe," according to ex Sony Santa Monica dev
By Kaan Serin published
News Whatever that means

Pokemon and Balatro-inspired roguelike doubled its Kickstarter goal in 20 minutes and is now 570% funded
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's a very fun game!"

Demonschool dev says he "could find you 10 companies" that have pitched Bloodborne remakes, remasters, and spin-offs
By Kaan Serin published
News Even the Demonschool devs pitched a Bloodborne-related game to Sony

Pokemon Winds and Waves' best 'mon looks awfully like another creature collector's pomeranian and even the devs noticed
By Kaan Serin published
News Cassette Beasts' Pombomb has some heated competition

World of Warcraft Midnight composer says Blizzard devs "feel very lucky and happy that we're not using generative AI
By Kaan Serin published
News Leo Kaliski also reckons AI-generated music is a bit easier to spot

Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen speedrunner finishes the re-releases in under 3 hours, discovers Legendary events are included
By Kaan Serin published
News The Deoxys and Ho-Oh/Lugia events are seemingly still here

Pokemon Winds and Waves Browt already has quite the fan following despite agreement that the grass starter is kinda ugly
By Kaan Serin published
News The chick bean Pokemon uses that odd unibrow to photosynthesize
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