Hirun Cryer
Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.
Latest articles by Hirun Cryer
Lego Horizon Adventures puts Aloy in a wonderful co-op world later this year across, PC, PS5, and Nintendo Switch
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News Now this looks like a blast
Good Diablo 4 Season 4 vibes keep coming as Steam reviews recover to 'Mostly Positive' and the action-RPG hits a new all-time peak
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News 77% of recent user reviews have praised Blizzard's recovering game
Team Fortress 2 actor throws support behind players speaking against the state of the shooter: "I have never seen such passion"
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News Bots are rendering the game "unplayable" for many
Former Dragon Age lead thinks The Veilguard being more similar to Mass Effect was "inevitable," but it "likely means good things for gameplay"
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News We're seeing 15 minutes of gameplay next week
New Helldivers 2 Warbond features armor and guns straight out of Predator, but expect future releases to slow down as Arrowhead takes in fan feedback
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News Viper Commandos goes live next week
Visions of Mana and Dragon Quest 12 lead the list of five exciting JRPGs we want to see more of at Summer Game Fest 2024
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SGF Predictions SGF Predictions | We're craving more info on Blue Protocol, Reynatis, and more
Beloved horror devs' new soulslike and Metroidvania mashup Nine Sols is proving a welcome distraction for Silksong hopefuls: "My dream was Hollow Knight but CAT and it came true"
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News Nine Sols is a hit with players on Steam
In just 5 words, an out-of-nowhere patch for one of 2023's best JRPGs brings me back for more as Octopath Traveler 2 adds new super-bosses
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News Three new brutal showdowns await
Silent Hill 2 remake producer says original Konami devs wanted to make more changes, but thanks to Bloober Team "the remake is highly faithful to the original"
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News If the remake had been made exclusively in Japan, it probably would be vastly different
Following Resident Evil 4 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth fallout, the Silent Hill 2 remake is avoiding 'yellow paint' trend
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News Konami and Bloober Team will avoid using the environmental signposts
Nine Sols review: "Metroidvania blended with Soulslike elements and the execution is nothing short of astonishing"
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Down-bad Monster Hunter Wilds players brute-force the 'Dating Sim' tag onto Steam mere days after meeting Gemma the Smithy
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News It can only get worse from here
Final Fantasy 14 role-players are creating their own Bridgerton storylines with scandal, drama, and romance across a 7-day MMO event
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News The two share more history than you think
Assassin's Creed Shadows fan theory over its map gains momentum after fans solve Ubisoft's riddles for more tantalizing concept art
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News Does this finally confirm the Kyoto setting?
Final Fantasy 7 Cloud actor says the most challenging part of Rebirth was voicing a Moogle: "It was just hard to take seriously"
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News It was a "ridiculously funny" process
God of War devs say they were "scared as hell" that they would "f*** up" the now-iconic E3 2016 reveal
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News It's not hard to see why
As Destiny 2 servers recover from The Final Shape halting log-ins, skipping cutscenes, and booting players mid-activity, Bungie apologizes and hits the reset button
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News The servers were under intense pressure
Solo dev behind indie roguelike hit Balatro threatens us with a good time, might "bloat this game with even more banana lore"
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News They can do what they want, at this point
Final Fantasy 14 gets more US Worlds as Dawntrail's launch looms, hoping to avoid the dreadful Endwalker queues of the MMO's past
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News Square Enix is preparing, and a good thing it is
Final Fantasy 14 superfan and series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is running riot with the goofy FF6 outfit he made Yoshi-P add to the MMO
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News And he's already got an entourage
Metaphor: ReFantazio - Everything we know about the upcoming JRPG from ex-Persona developers
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Medieval fantasy Metaphor: ReFantazio is in the works from Studio Zero
Team Fortress 2's long-running bot issue hits a historical low as recent Steam reviews hit 'Mostly Negative' for the first time in its 17-year history
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News The bot issue appears to originate from late 2023
Monster Hunter Wilds - everything we know so far about Capcom's new game
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News Everything we know about Monster Hunter Wilds, the follow-up to Monster Hunter World