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
Zelda 2-inspired indie asks for $200 to make a spin-off in a month, but accidentally racks up $17,000 in Kickstarter funds instead
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News Sheep Lass: Tower of Ragigund didn't ask for much
Sand Land review: "Feels inferior to what Akira Toriyama constructed years ago"
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Review
Stellar Blade players ask for help containing spoilers as copies of the upcoming game start arriving more than two days before launch
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News Shift Up's action game has broken street date
Helldivers 2 dev says they don't know if the shooter will ever go bigger than 4-player squads, but it "would require a lot of work"
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News When you think about it, the workload would be staggering
Final Fantasy 16 DLC makes the most of the RPG's mature tone by audaciously adding some caked-up Tonberries: "Oh no not their Tonbussy…"
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News Not like this
Despite 'Mixed' launch, beloved Metroidvania dev cites Baldur's Gate 3 and Hades 2 in claiming that going Early Access for its new RPG is "one of the best decisions we could've made"
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News Thomas Mahler believes early access can lead to games that never would've been made
Persona veterans' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio bumps a major series staple by excluding romance
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News It's worth remembering this isn't made by P-Studio
Diablo 4 will "probably" get more Public Test Realms, but devs remain torn as they "take away some of the excitement" of new seasons
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News Blizzard will likely discuss a new PTR prior to each season
Team behind Steam's latest mega-hit was just joking when it said it would "double our sales," but then its horror gambling game actually sold 1 million copies
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News Buckshot Roulette is sitting pretty with 95% of its 14,000 reviews positive
GTA 5 Trevor actor says he shot "James Bond" DLC where "he's still kind of a f**k up," but then it "just disappeared" at Rockstar
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News Sorry Trevor, not today
After designing a Helldivers 2 Assault mission pitch "crazy similar" to one Arrowhead kicked around, fan returns with another concept that takes you right into the lair of the bugs
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News Fancy carrying a payload into a bug nest?
Team Fortress 2 patch fixes a game-crashing bug that was happening because the game thought you were Half-Life icon Gordan Freeman
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News Sorry, that's not Gordon
While New Vegas veterans lure players to their deaths, Fallout 76 players are instead helping the MMO's newbies take advantage of its enemy-melting Perk system
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News Turns out those Perks really can make a difference
Persona veteran's new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio attempts to bridge real-time and turn-based combat in a move Final Fantasy has tried to make work for years, and it's out in October
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News Persona's long-time composer is also pushing himself into new territory
Hollow Knight Silksong: Everything we know so far
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Feature Where is Hollow Knight Silksong? Your guess is as good as ours
Seizing upon Fallout's popularity, New Vegas veterans are luring unsuspecting newcomers to the RPG's most infamous location
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News Please don't go to Quarry Junction unprepared
Valheim's massive new Ashlands update gives the survival RPG its "most challenging biome yet" plus raid-like sieges and new endgame weapons
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News The Ashlands update is now open for testing
After a Mixed early access launch, acclaimed Metroidvania director behind the Ori games is striving to turn his new action-RPG's Steam rating from a "58 into a 90"
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News No Rest for the Wicked’s Steam review score has already improved
Helldivers dev reveals who is the bigger threat to Managed Democracy between the Automatons and Terminids: “Yes”
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News You'll need to fight both equally (sorry)
Stellar Blade’s “uncensored” Japan release sparks controversy as EA exec complains his 2023 game was banned over similar gore
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News Dead Space was refused a CERO rating unless it altered its gore
Fallout 4 devs have "worked to minimize" the number of mods that the new update breaks
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News The update arrives next week
Frostpunk 2's beta hides a terrible scenario where all of the city-builder's factions "go to war," but so far no one's found it
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News So far, so good
Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes is getting a sequel despite the passing of the throwback JRPG's director and studio co-founder
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News Yoshitaka Murayama passed away earlier this year