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
Helldivers 2 dev is working on friend requests as a "top issue," and you can tell it's serious because there's "no bad joke or military lingo this time"
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News Arrowhead gets serious
Stardew Valley will now beat you unconscious and leave you for dead on a mountain if you use an out-of-bounds glitch to cheat
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News Mr. Qi is not amused
Solid Snake himself has already played the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, and says it's "spectacular"
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News Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's opening section is apparently banging
After calling flying bugs "propaganda" and blue lasers "not real", Helldivers 2 director crumbles as one soldier captures both in a single screenshot
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News "Nooo...."
Helldivers 2 patch stops your mech blowing itself up when firing a rocket while turning, but doesn't fix ongoing cross-play frustrations
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News Now that's one welcome fix
After two Apex Legends pros were hacked mid-tournament, Respawn rolls out the "first of a layered series of updates" designed to protect players
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News There's no update on when the tournament finals might resume
Stardew Valley 1.6 update release date and patch notes we know so far
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News Here's everything you need to know about the big Stardew Valley update
Ahead of Dragon's Dogma 2, director says "We don't need to" call the RPG series a cult classic anymore: "It's sold its way and made its way into many gamers' hearts"
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News Hideaki Itsuno has a point
Nobody saw World of Warcraft's new update coming: a 60-player pirate MMO battle royale with its own servers and optional PvP
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News This has been seven months in the making for WoW players
After a bad launch, Konami acknowledges Metal Gear Solid Collection is still missing key features, says many fixes are "expected to take some more time"
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News Improvements like better upscaling and customized controls are in the works
After almost 7 years of solo development, exceptionally cool off-beat Metroidvania gets an increasingly disturbing trailer to celebrate upcoming launch
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News Animal Well is out in May
Final Fantasy 14's new Xbox-exclusive currency proves confusing for the MMO's community, yet all too familiar for Microsoft's console veterans
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News FFXIV Coins are the the new hotness, maybe
High on managed democracy, Helldivers 2 soldiers taunt D&D-style Game Master Joel after liberating 6 planets, defending 2, and capturing 2 whole sectors in days
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News Fellow soldiers are responding with a 'please don't do that'
New Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix remedies Xbox saves, makes a key change to the RPG itself: "Made Minthara promise to stop repeating her thoughts about Gale in Act 3"
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News Minthara also won't now abandon you under very odd conditions
Unhinged Dragon's Dogma 2 player goes too far, recreates Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's ugly Moogle but makes it even more cursed
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News If this is a Pawn, I'm never hiring it
Cities: Skylines 2 finally debuts first wave of mods in beta next week, with coding and map editing tools the first to launch
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News This follows Colossal Order pledging to avoid DLC until the game was in better shape
Dragon's Dogma 2 leaks and spoilers surfacing online following early streams and trophy data
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News Multiple people are allegedly streaming Capcom's sequel early
Major Apex Legends tournament postponed as pros fall victim to hacks mid-game, leading voluntary cheat watchdog to warn others off EA games for now
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News The Apex Legends regional finals were upended
If you only buy one thing in the 2024 Steam Spring Sale, I'd vote for this bundle uniting 5 of the best games of 2023 for nearly 50% off
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News Five truly outstanding indie games
Konami brings back David Hayter to try and explain what the hell is going on in Metal Gear: "This could go on for days"
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News It's also a mini look at Metal Gear Solid's cultural impact
Put your hands together for Helldiver 2's fastest Stratagem caller, who hit 5.8 million points in Stratagem Hero after 4 hours and presumably can't feel his fingers
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News We've previously seen scores clock in an over 1 million
The first Palworld raid adds new Pal Bellanoir to the survival game and is "coming soon," players immediately dub it their next goth girlfriend
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News Bellanoir will be the star of Palworld's first proper raid
Despite Yoshi-P's hesitancy, Final Fantasy 14 is temporarily freeing the MMO community to cross the regional server divide as Dawntrail congestion looms
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News We don't want Endwalker queues again