Latest articles by Kaan Serin
Persona studio realized it "didn't need to be so strict" about medieval conventions when making its new fantasy JRPG
News Metaphor: ReFantazio's world is more in service of its story rather than historical conventions
35 years after the iconic puzzler's release, someone has finally beat NES Tetris' 255 levels and achieved 'Rebirth'
News Someone has beat Tetris for the first time, a year after someone else also beat Tetris for the first time
After voicing Sora in 12 RPGs, Kingdom Hearts actor says maybe "the best thing to do" is let the long-running series end: "Even if you have something that you love"
News Haley Joel Osment thinks it's nice to not let a series "drag out beyond where the creator wants it to go."
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom players discover the game's most "busted" (and twisted) strategy is to literally drown foes
News Flashbacks to Korok torture
"Bethesda Game Studio's Big 3" RPGs are now Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Starfield, studio veteran says: "Starfield is simply developing its own unique fanbase"
News "Starfield has its own unique personality and now sits right next to Fallout and Elder Scrolls"
Persona director explains why Metaphor: ReFantazio's cast awakens their powers in the most brutal way: "The big theme of this game is anxiety"
News The JRPG continues Atlus' trend of brutal battle animations
Sonic the Hedgehog boss says the PS5 Pro justifies its $700 price and could allow for newer games "that can express the speed of Sonic”
News That's all Sony ever had to say
Ghost of Yotei is reportedly driving curious newbies and lapsed fans back to Ghost of Tsushima in droves
News Sucker Punch's open-world epic is getting a boost in players, four years on
I'm begging more devs to do this: indie gives out the prototype of its great Soulslike – "Do not tell me if you run into a bug I will hunt you down I do not care"
News "No takesies backsies if it does not run well!"
Metaphor: ReFantazio players could complete an entire Persona with the 60 hours some of them have spent in the JRPG's demo
News Metaphor: ReFantazio's Prologue demo is taking most people 4-6 hours to complete
Early Dragon Ball Sparking Zero stream and hours of spoilers get spirit bombed out of existence by Bandai Namco
News Bamco has its eyes peeled
Helldivers 2's take on a galaxy-traveling Death Star really is a death trap: "risk of collapse," no toilets, and the beds are stolen from "very sick children"
News High Command calls them "donations"
After 11 years of GTA Online players brute forcing their way to GTA 5's starting area, Rockstar Games is opening the gates in a new zombie mode
News North Yankton makes a return and it's worse for wear
League of Legends and Valorant studio shoots down bogus rumor Tencent handed it $200 million to take on Valve's hero shooter: "There's a lot cooking in R&D, but nothing like Deadlock"
News Riot Games isn't rivalling Valve's newest effort
A Metal Gear Solid 1 remake can't be done in the same way Konami remade Metal Gear Solid Delta, producers say
News But Konami's more focused on preserving the series "for the next 10 or 50 years" anyway
Helldivers 2 poll sees over 70% of 69,000 players complain about the game's "not great" and sometimes even "awful" ragdoll physics
News Though, some divers only have a problem with it when fighting certain enemies
"Compromises were made": Space Marine 2 devs admit the shooter's story was limited by its 3-player co-op, and they "could have done way more"
News If the three-person squad weren't permanently glued together, that is
Speedrunners are already tearing the new Zelda game apart, beating Echoes of Wisdom in less than an hour with only 4 hearts
News Zelda was done with her first solo adventure before lunchtime
As Persona devs dove into fantasy with Metaphor: ReFantazio, the JRPG's director got advice from Neon Genesis Evangelion's designer: "Don't let yourself be hemmed in"
News "I ended up meeting up with a bunch of different Japanese fantasy creators"
For a hot minute, the Blizzard game that morphed into StarCraft was a Star Wars RTS concept that went nowhere
News LucasArts' president at the time has no memory of the project, though
Horizon: Zero Dawn developer's next game may be Horizon Online as a third single-player game looks "a ways off"
News Aloy's taking a lil' break
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach already has a 2025 release date "decided," but Hideo Kojima can't say when "due to unforeseen circumstances"
News Kojima's baby is still incubating
Desperate to get another RTS off the ground, Blizzard developers reportedly pitched Warcraft 4 and a Call of Duty RTS that got shot down
News Warcraft 3: Reforged made a real-time strategy return tough
