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
Destiny 2 patch notes for The Final Shape's abilities and armor changes are so big they would have been one of the biggest posts in Bungie's 33-year history
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News That's a lot of ability and armor tweaks
Assassin's Creed Shadows marks another first for Ubisoft's stealth-turned-RPG series: It actually revealed both of its protagonists at once
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News Previous Assassin's Creed games have tended to only reveal the male protagonist at first
The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 studio dev thinks "it only makes sense" for CD Projekt Red to make a new IP that comes "straight from us"
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News Project Hadar is CD Projekt's new IP
With 30 million people signed up already, imminent open-world RPG Wuthering Waves is another Chinese action darling to watch
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News And it's out tomorrow
Kingdom Hearts hopeful held off buying the RPGs on Epic for 3 years - only to cave 5 days before the Steam version was announced
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News Ouch
GTA 6 publisher CEO says he wants to "vastly over-deliver" on price and offer "more value than what we charge"
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News GTA 6's publisher was the first to charge $70 for new games
Baldur's Gate 3 director isn't giving advice to whoever makes Baldur's Gate 4, but he did have one thing to say: "They have to do their own thing"
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News Swen Vincke doesn't want to "poison the well" for the next developer
Helldivers 2 devs need "more time" to sort out the shooter's divisive weapon balancing: "We're cooking"
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News Arrowhead is taking its time, and so it should
Baldur's Gate 3 director bragged it could be the "RPG of the decade" during development - then immediately regretted it
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News Larian ran into a "sh*tload of trouble"
Baldur's Gate 3 developer is gearing up for its "two very ambitious RPGs" by opening a 7th studio on the Witcher devs' territory
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News Larian heads to Warsaw
Death Stranding 2's filming and recording is complete, but now it's entering an "adjustment phase" that'll last for over a year
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News This means it likely won't launch until the latter half of 2025
GTA 6 publisher says "perfection is hard to measure," but Rockstar is trying to create "an experience that no one has seen before"
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News Take-Two is "highly confident" Rockstar can hit the fall 2025 release window
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players chase the elemental dragons after one player discovers a different Triforce on their backs
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News It also poses some intriguing lore questions
Hades 2 director teases the roguelike's first "Major Update" and what the patch process will look like "until we consider the game complete"
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News Here's what the future holds for the roguelike sequel
Who is Assassin's Creed Shadows' protagonist Yasuke? The history behind the first Black Samurai explained
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Features Exploring the history behind the first Black Samurai Yasuke, one of Assassin's Creed Shadows' protagonists
A Total War Star Wars game is reportedly in development at strategy game studio Creative Assembly
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News It's reportedly one of three new games in the works
"Perfect the moment you open it": Ghost of Tsushima PC players praise Sony's port after past stumbles with The Last of Us
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News "Just a really good port and a really good game"
"I'm sure your hill has a lovely view": Assassin's Creed Origins actor comments on the vitriol surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke
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News The historical evidence is right there
Valve sleuths believe mystery game trademarked 2 years ago is Overwatch meets Team Fortress 2, and they're still trying to manifest a reveal
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News Screenshots have purportedly leaked online
Here's why Final Fantasy 14's upgraded characters looked so bad in its Benchmark test, and how Square Enix is improving them for 7.0's launch
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News It's all down to lighting issues
Assassin's Creed Shadows "will not require a mandatory connection at all times," but internet "will be needed to install the game"
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News That clears up a little confusion
Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion is in the final stage of development, so rest assured it won’t suffer an Endwalker-style delay
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News Square Enix is currently in the final checking stage
22-year-old PS2 shooter Star Wars: The Clone Wars looks set to be the next PS2 game coming to PS5 via PS Plus emulation
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News The PSN store is the leak culprit this time