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
When making Kingdom Hearts, the "one thing" RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura "wasn't willing to budge on" was a non-Disney protagonist
By Kaan Serin published
News "I wanted Sora's design to be a kind of 'grand compilation' of all the characters I'd drawn up till then."
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii revives another Sega arcade classic that's never been ported - a true Yakuza games tradition
By Kaan Serin published
News RGG Studios is reviving a 1998 arcade cabinet in-game
With Sonic, Persona, and Yakuza under its belt, Sega thinks making a subscription service like Xbox Game Pass would be "very interesting"
By Kaan Serin published
News How many subscriptions is too much?
Dragon Quest's creator says he's "never thought about retirement," while Final Fantasy's father reveals his next script is complete
By Kaan Serin published
News A conversation between two JRPG legends
The cult classic RPG that inspired countless weird indies, including Undertale, is making a comeback after 16 years
By Kaan Serin published
News OFF is returning on Steam and Switch in 2025
Tekken 8 boss gives broken Tifa stans hope after Clive got to join the fighter instead: "It's not like we're only limited to one character from Final Fantasy"
By Kaan Serin published
News Begin the Tifa summoning circle
Helldivers 2's mysterious black hole might finally come into play as Arrowhead tweaks its look and the new faction inches closer: "Helldivers, protect your holes"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Illuminate might have something big planned for the spaghettified planet
Good news - Marvel Rivals is finally fixing its pesky mouse acceleration problem in next month's Season 1
By Kaan Serin published
News Marvel Rivals Season 1 is due to start sometime in early January next year
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto "very much" regretted making Super Mario Sunshine so hard as it should be something that even "Grandma and Grandpa" can pick up and play
By Kaan Serin published
News The Mario maker wanted to GameCube classic to be more playable for everyone
"We've been listening to the response" - Helldivers 2 is making amends with fans upset over crossover prices by giving away Killzone 2 items for free
By Kaan Serin published
News "The distribution of those items will begin shortly, in two waves."
After 17 JRPGs across 30 years, Bandai Namco is gearing up to release more Tales of remasters "fairly consistently" and "as much as possible"
By Kaan Serin published
News Following Tales of Graces f Remastered next month
After the PS5 Pro's less dramatic changes, PlayStation architect Mark Cerny says the next-gen will focus more on CPUs, memory, and machine-learning
By Kaan Serin published
News "We're not making PCs"
Manor Lords' next big update adds the city builder's first new maps and lets you build bridges to stop drunk villagers from drowning
By Kaan Serin published
News You'll soon be able to construct villages in Swiss Valley and Winding River
Sony becomes the largest shareholder in Elden Ring and Dark Souls' parent company, despite acquisition chatter
By Kaan Serin published
News Sony now owns 10% of Kadokawa, the massive anime publisher that itself owns FromSoftware
Valuable Pokemon TCG cards are reportedly being used to commit money laundering Poke Crimes
By Kaan Serin published
News Even criminals are hunting for shiny Pokemon
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead asks thirsty PC players to not make "inappropriate" mods after FF16's Clive got swiftly unrobed
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Hamaguchi has a polite request ahead of the PC port's release
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director wanted to add an "episodic story" DLC, but decided finishing Part 3 was the team's "highest priority"
By Kaan Serin published
News Development on the Remake trilogy's finale is now underway
In a year of brutal layoffs and closures, Helldivers 2 gave its studio the "financial stability to keep going" and "keep making the games that we want"
By Kaan Serin published
News "We really kept the Arrowhead way"
Path of Exile 2's new update lowers the cost of respeccing, adds far more fast travel points, and turns skitter golems into walking bombs
By Kaan Serin published
News Grinding Gear Games details its last update before the new year
Beware of Helldivers 2's new vehicles - Arrowhead were trying to maximize "laughter-per-minute" with High Command's cars
By Kaan Serin published
News "With everything we're adding, we want to get these chaotic, tense, fun moments"
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is one of the best-selling games in Bandai Namco history: "A nice surprise in a year that's been kind of rough overall," says analyst
By Kaan Serin published
News Sparking Zero is also the best-selling Dragon Ball game to date
The Witcher 4's Ciri sounded completely different because, yes, she has a new voice actor that "truly brought Ciri to life"
By Kaan Serin published
News The Witcher 3's Jo Wyatt isn't returning
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle might not be the end as Lucasfilm agrees "there's a lot of space in between the films"
By Kaan Serin published
News More Indy games could be "super interesting"
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