Hirun Cryer

Hirun Cryer

Freelance Writer

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

Dying Light The Beast: A screenshot of Kyle Crane in the upcoming game.
Dying Light: The Beast – Everything you need to know

By Hirun Cryer, Jasmine Gould-Wilson Last updated

Guide Dying Light: The Beast is here, so this guide offers everything that you need to know about Techland's new survival-action horrorfest before you make any purchases

Guide
Hollow Knight: Silksong screenshot of hunter Hornet on a mount that tunnels through the earth
Hollow Knight Silksong: Everything we know so far

By Hirun Cryer Last updated

Guide Hollow Knight Silksong is out now, officially

Guide
Enzo Favara in a dark room during a cut scene in Mafia: The Old Country.
Mafia: The Old Country – Everything you need to know before playing

By Hirun Cryer, Emma-Jane Betts Last updated

Guide Mafia: The Old Country is finally here! So here's a complete guide on all the information that you need to know before picking it up for yourself

Guide
Tales of the Shire: a screenshot of the upcoming Lord of the Rings game's artwork.
Tales of the Shire: Everything you need to know about the new Lord of the Rings game

By Hirun Cryer, Emma-Jane Betts Last updated

Guide Tales of the Shire is finally here, so here's everything you need to know before picking up the new Hobbit game!

Guide
InZOI: a screenshot of the InZOI character creator.
inZOI: Everything you need to know about the new life sim

By Hirun Cryer Last updated

Guide inZOI is finally here, so here's everything that you need to know about the new Sims 4 competitor's release date, gameplay, and more

Guide
Monster Hunter Wilds reveal
The ultimate Monster Hunter Wilds guide to weapons, monsters, multiplayer, and more

By Will Sawyer Last updated

Guide The Monster Hunter Wilds release date has finally been confirmed, so here's everything you need to know ahead of the new game!

Guide
Metaphor: ReFantazio
Metaphor: ReFantazio - Everything you need to know about the new JRPG

By Hirun Cryer Last updated

The new medieval fantasy Metaphor: ReFantazio is finally here!

JRPGs
Deadlock
The best Deadlock hero has a whopping 93% pick rate, and it's wiping the floor thanks to its "low skill ceiling" and huge area-of-effect attacks

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Seven has won a staggering 58.93% of all matches played

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Star Wars Outlaws screenshot
13 years after it was taken offline, a legendary Star Wars MMO helped influence Star Wars Outlaws' iteration of Tatooine

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Outlaws expands on the versions of the planet we've seen before

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Helldivers 2 enemies
Helldivers 2 players just miss out on unlocking the Orbital Napalm Barrage - after Arrowhead itself leaked the Stratagem last month

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Fans weren't able to collectively eliminate 500 million Automatons in time

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Assassin's Creed Shadows screenshot showing female protagonist Naoe
Assassin's Creed Shadows is bringing back double assassinations for the first time in 9 years, and there's a weird lore theory as to why

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Naoe's wielding a hidden blade and a tanto

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Enotria
"They don't care about you": Dev delays upcoming Soulslike Enotria "indefinitely" as it claims Xbox has ignored its emails "for 2 months"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News "Obviously they don't care about Enotria and they don't care about you"

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Star Wars Outlaws trailer shots
Self-professed Star Wars Outlaws "tourist" brilliantly recreates Tatooine stills from A New Hope

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Star Wars Outlaws' Tatooine is staggeringly accurate

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Mass Effect
Iconic Mass Effect and Metal Gear Solid actor Jennifer Hale warns "AI is coming for all of us," and it can "destroy who you are"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News The veteran actor also urges fans to ask their Congressional representatives to vote in favor of bills against AI

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Deadlock
Valve's new hero shooter Deadlock exceeds 150,000 concurrents despite still being invite-only as a new Portal 2 reference appears in-game

By Hirun Cryer Published

News That sure is a familiar teleporter logo

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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Hideo Kojima celebrates Metal Gear Solid 5's 9th anniversary by remembering how he did basically "everything"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Alexa, play Humble by Kendrick Lamar

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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy top long-time Mario actor Charles Martinet's list of favorite Mario games, but "Luigi's Mansion just touches my little heart"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Martinet's drawing plenty of praise for his picks

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A player wearing a gasmask and holding a gun in the upcoming PS5 game, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Call of Duty voice chat reaches its final form, gives enemy players a way to scream at you mere inches from your ear by using you as a meat shield

By Hirun Cryer Published

News This can only go badly

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Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight: Silksong fans tragically trolled by a random Steam update listed as "for beta testing"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It actually was too good to be true

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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty screenshots
Cyberpunk 2077 sequel will "double the headcount" at its studio as it nears the end of its research phase

By Hirun Cryer Published

News CD Projekt's joint-CEO gives an update

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Death Stranding 2 PS5 screenshot
Hideo Kojima says he's working on Death Stranding 2's "specs and flow," and adding details, abating fan fears of a larger overhaul

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Chill

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Verdansk 84 new warzone map
4 years after it was destroyed, Call of Duty: Warzone's Verdansk map will make a comeback in 2025

By Hirun Cryer Published

News The original Verdansk was obliterated in 2021

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The Witcher 4 Polaris
The Witcher 4 has made "substantial progress" in 2024 and will soon advance to the "full production phase"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It's good news for the sequel

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Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club
Metroid co-creator and a Nintendo veteran of 42 years came out of writing retirement just to work on the first Famicom Detective Club game in 35 years

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Yoshio Sakamoto has a very long history with the Famicom Detective Club series

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Monster Hunter Wilds SGF hands off preview
Monster Hunter Wilds took over 5 years to make partly because Monster Hunter World blew up so hard that Capcom had to figure out what all these new fans would want

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Selling 26.3 million copies is a hard act to follow

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