Latest articles by Kaan Serin
"We based our decisions on that selling 100,000 copies over 2 years, it did 200,000 copies in the first month": Indie publisher says planning small is key to its success
News Yogscast Games is "almost too realistic in terms of our projections"
Bungie thinks Marathon can coexist with games like Escape from Tarkov and help players get to "the survival storytelling a little bit faster"
News Wiping off the genre's usual jank to make everything more approachable
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's divisive weapon durability is getting a workaround, but it's locked to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition app
news Equipment Repair is a daily bonus you can unlock in Zelda Notes
FromSoft master modder brings their seamless co-op mod to Dark Souls Remastered, easing the wait for Elden Ring Nightreign and The Duskbloods
News From the modder behind Armored Core 6 and Elden Ring's co-op mods
"I looked it up and said ah, f***": As Balatro took over the world, another publisher was sweating over its own card roguelike – which LocalThunk then promoted himself
news Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers came out just a few months after Balatro
Marathon release date set for September, closed alpha coming this month – Bungie's extraction shooter is not free-to-play but we don't have a price yet
news The Destiny studio won't say how much it'll cost just yet, though
Hollow Knight devs originally wanted to make a "very small" Metroidvania and debated shaving $5,000 off its Kickstarter goal days before it went live
News Hollow Knight was at one point planned to be "like two hours or something"
Marvel Rivals Season 2 quietly made one big cheeky change without telling anyone by buffing all the male hero's assets
News Wolverine, Mr Fantastic, and more all get a small bump
Dethroning Monster Hunter Wilds and Split Fiction, this surprise roguelike has instantly become the best-rated game of the year
News 2025 has a new champ
One of Overwatch's most infamous abilities, Mei's freeze, may be coming back as a perk "in a different, less overwhelming way"
News It's 2016 all over again
Astro Bot's director sounds much more open to Final Fantasy bots than before, but it's still a "we'll see" situation
News All I can think about now is the possibility of a Tifa Bot
Before Nintendo even confirmed the Switch 2's mouse controls, Shovel Knight spin-off devs started making a co-op game with a cursed "Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative"
News Mouse Work devs started making a mice-centric game before Switch 2's mouse controls were official
After working on something "big and ambitious" with Xbox, the Spyro and Crash studio wants to tackle another iconic platformer: Banjo-Kazooie
News "I think we all can agree Banjo's been hibernating long enough, right?"
Former PlayStation boss says the platform wars are effectively over since "only the dog can hear" the difference between consoles now
News PS5 and Xbox Series X are "very similar," Shawn Layden says
Hollow Knight lead playtester's new Kickstarter game is another slick Metroidvania that's also coming to Nintendo Switch 2
News Inspired by everything from Persona and Hollow Knight to Donkey Kong and Smash Bros.
Nintendo Switch 2 scalpers aren't getting nearly as far as they did with the PS5 launch, as fans are mobilizing to boot them off resale websites
News "Bye Bye eBay Scalpers"
Nintendo clears up online confusion, confirms physical Switch 2 Edition games come with the original game and next-gen upgrade on the same card
News Online chatter suggested Switch 2 Edition boxes would only include a Switch 1 card and a download code for the next-gen enhancements
Warhammer's most overlooked strategy game was a "huge touchpoint" for Civilization 7's all-new narratives
News FTL was another big source of inspiration
First PEGI, now YouTube - Balatro's LocalThunk seems tired of his roguelike game being age restricted for gambling-related concerns
News "Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is"
14 years after Dark Souls' infamously clunky movement, FromSoftware has cooked up a "super jump" and "double jump" for The Duskbloods
news Thanks to The Bloodsworn's pseudo-vampiric powers
Balatro creator can finally enjoy his own roguelike after beating every deck on every difficulty: "All this time playing has killed any negative emotions I had toward it"
News 15 decks, 8 difficulties, 120 runs
The Duskbloods' winged rat "elderly gentleman" was actually FromSoftware's rare attempt at something "Nintendo-esque" and "cute"
News Hilariously on brand for the studio that made the atrocities seen in Dark Souls and Bloodborne
Nintendo accidentally leaks an unrevealed Donkey Kong Bananza character that might unironically have big lore implications for the Mario universe
News And it might also be a callback to Donkey Kong's origins 43 years ago
