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

Blood of Dawnwalker devs explain how the vampire RPG's "narrative sandbox" builds on what they were "known for crafting" in games like The Witcher 3
By Kaan Serin published
News Blood of the Dawnwaller is very much carrying The Witcher 3's torch

Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio composer's new JRPG gets a Steam Next Fest demo, and it's basically a turn-based Metal Gear Solid
By Kaan Serin published
News Guns Undarkness is a stealth game while on the field and a turn-based RPG when the fighting starts

Doom: The Dark Ages developers go back to the OG 1993 FPS for inspiration: "Every time you look at it, you learn something new"
By Kaan Serin published
News id Software find new inspiration in an old classic

OG BioShock director recommends one very BioShock-y Steam Next Fest game that already has 500 "very positive" reviews
By Kaan Serin published
News Set in a twisted take on Disney World... need I say any more?

Avowed director would "love to see us do more" with the RPG after laying the groundwork for sequels and DLC
By Kaan Serin published
News Game director Carrie Patel has an appetite to continue cooking in Eora

Modder leading 13-year effort to remake Oblivion in Skyrim isn't worried about an official remake: "The fact Skyblivion is nearly in a releasable state is a miracle"
By Kaan Serin published
News Bethesda's Elder Scrolls 4 re-release was leaked in court documents years ago and hasn't resurfaced since

Marvel Rivals now lets Storm's ultimate turn into a raging, fiery tornado when teaming up with Human Torch - and I've never been so thankful to have hero ban
By Kaan Serin published
News Miss and Mr Storm

As if hell and demons weren't enough, Doom: The Dark Ages went medieval so id Software "could get more dark and sinister with the tool kit"
By Kaan Serin published
News "You think torture devices, ropes, and chains, and spikes"

Diablo 2 creator says players treated the action RPG like a "lifestyle game" because it was fun, and MMOs like World of Warcraft had more to do with starting the live service trend
By Kaan Serin published
News "That stuff didn't really come out of Diablo 2."

Another Helldivers 2 collaboration is already in the "early stages" after the sci-fi shooter crossed over with Killzone
By Kaan Serin published
News Arrowhead teases what's next

PUBG creator’s new project won't just be the hardest survival game ever made - it's aiming to be the hardest survival game anyone could possibly make
By Kaan Serin published
News Prologue: Go Wayback! is "supposed to be as hard a survival game as you can make"

Avowed director didn't add romance as RPG players often try to cheese companion relationships and she wanted them to "feel natural"
By Kaan Serin published
News "My hope with players and their companion relationships in Avowed is that they would feel natural," Carrie Patel says

2 years later, Overwatch 2 Steam reviews crawl back from 'Mostly Negative' thanks to its new perks and old loot boxes
By Kaan Serin published
News It's still got a long way to climb, though

Cancelled The Last of Us Online game was "great," but former PlayStation exec says Naughty Dog had to scrap it after Bungie told them how much work it would be
By Kaan Serin published
News Shuhei Yoshida spills the beans on the multiplayer game set in the Last of Us universe

Life is Strange director says Don't Nod returned to its episodic roots in Lost Records because he's not "invested" in Netflix's binge model
By Kaan Serin published
News Michel Koch much prefers HBO and Apple TV's appointment viewing

Overwatch 2 Season 15 finally lets you cancel emotes mid-animation, and it's unironically the best casual change since launch
By Kaan Serin published
News It might not seem like much, but it's an honest change

4 years later, the League of Legends MMO remains a major project for Riot Games' co-founder who says it's "exactly the type of company" that should be making MMOs
By Kaan Serin published
News "People want to run around the world of Runeterra."

Assassin's Creed Shadows parody game satirizes complaints about historical accuracy by giving Yasuke an assault rifle and sports car
By Kaan Serin published
News And "some Audio and Graphics where created with the help of AI"

Marvel Rivals' success is actually "really great" for Overwatch 2, and the FPS's director says the "pressure" that Blizzard feels is mostly "internal"
By Kaan Serin last updated
News It's like "music to their ears"

With Indiana Jones and Forza Horizon 5 ports, Phil Spencer isn't "trying to move" Nintendo Switch and PS5 players "over to Xbox anymore"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I know it’s not what everybody else is doing, but I just believe games should be the thing that’s at the forefront."

Xbox CEO Phil Spencer doesn't "want to see every game turn into some big live service," says Game Pass allows for more "games that have a beginning, middle and end"
By Kaan Serin published
News South of Midnight, Doom: The Dark Ages, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Fable are all set to come out this year

Overwatch 2 director reckons it would be "very difficult" to run a shooter that isn't free-to-play now, but the model's also changing how games are designed
By Kaan Serin published
News Aaron Keller calls full price tags a "huge barrier to entry"

Take-Two CEO says GTA 6's "creative genius is human" and believes in paying developers "for their work if it's replicated by AI after"
By Kaan Serin published
News "The tools may be digital, but the creative genius is human"
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