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

Mass Effect Legendary Edition
Hot dang, the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition trilogy is just $9 on PlayStation - that's less than $1 per romanceable alien

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Bang for your buck

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Stalker 2
Stalker 2 gets another delay, this time to November so devs can sort out its technical issues

By Hirun Cryer Published

News There's bugs to fix

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Tekken 7's ending cutscene
Tekken 8 director Harada "didn't mean to lie" when he said awful dad Heihachi Mishima was really, truly dead

By Hirun Cryer Published

News He sure was dropped into a volcano, though

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Two Helldivers shake hands in a screenshot showcasing the Viper Commandos Warbond
As Helldivers 2 gears up to bring back an old threat, veterans of the original shooter come together to train newer recruits on how to squash them: "It is our duty"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News This can only go badly

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Kay and Nix take cover and hide from an approaching droid in Star Wars Outlaws
Leaked Star Wars Outlaws gameplay shows how Ubisoft's open-world adventure begins

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Oops

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Gemma in Monster Hunter Wilds.
I imagine Capcom popping a blood vessel as helpful investors make suggestions like this: just release Monster Hunter Wilds earlier bro, just put it on Switch dude

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Yeah, just do it

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Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode
After 150 hours and over 2,000 bodies collected in Honour Mode, the sanest Baldur's Gate 3 fan crowns the "ultimate Durge playthrough"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Even Shadowheart and Lae'zel weren't spared

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Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom
Helldivers 2 gets a Crowdstrike-Microsoft situation of its own as Ministry of Truth tells service technicians to manually reboot affected computers 15 times "to bring systems back online"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Don't worry, no holidays have been canceled

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A Tarnished warrior in Elden Ring stands in front of Miquella's cocoon.
Elden Ring players, put on your best armor and robes: the Drip Inspector is back in town, and you don't want this Invader to catch your fashion lacking

By Hirun Cryer Published

News But please don't kill them

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Assassin's Creed Shadows
Assassin's Creed Shadows debate somehow reaches Japanese government ministries, who reportedly remind everyone that historical fiction isn't really their concern at all

By Hirun Cryer Published

News No, the Japanese government isn't investigating Ubisoft's game

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Helldivers 2 screenshot showing a fully geared/armored diver standing with gun in hand as three jets soar the skies behind him
Helldivers 2 tackles "grief kicking" in its massive August update: if you get kicked, you'll be the host of a new session with "all of the team's loot" intact

By Hirun Cryer Published

News This is a solution promised back in late May

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Helldivers 2 screenshot of a Helldiver posing in front of a Charger enemy, which is being attacked with a flamethrower
As Helldivers 2 grunts are tasked with squashing 1 billion bugs, High Command not-so-subtly hints that "Terminid aggression and expansion may increase in response"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News That's not worrying at all

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot showing the RPG's companions standing as a united group, the main protagonist at front wielding a sword
Baldur's Gate 3's sex noise specialist is here to voice your Dragon Age: The Veilguard character: "I sit on a throne of moans"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News "You get brought in to solely make sex noise ONE TIME…"

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Assassin's Creed Shadows screenshot showing female protagonist Naoe
Ubisoft apologizes for Assassin's Creed Shadows promotional material that's "caused concern within the Japanese community," promises the RPG will "keep evolving until launch"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Ubisoft also addresses conversations surrounding Yasuke, again

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Manor Lords
Manor Lords gets crossbows and a new trade feature when the city builder's next update lands in the "next few weeks"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News There's also a fix to stop deer getting stuck

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Square Enix/@quachacho via Twitter
Final Fantasy 14's new raid armor makes some of the MMO's lewdest pants even lewder, and the community's treating this bug as a feature

By Hirun Cryer Published

News "One wrong bump and everything's gonna come flying outta there"

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Diablo 4 DLC
Blizzard says it was "freeing" to make a Diablo 4 class like the Spiritborn and just "try some crazy stuff out" that you won't find in the base action RPG

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Not everything made will make it into the final product, though

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Warframe: 1999
Baldur's Gate 3's award-nominated narrator is going to mess with your head in Warframe: 1999

By Hirun Cryer Published

News "I'm SO looking forward to getting into all your heads"

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Tekken 8
Fighting game legend Harada said he couldn't believe how dead Heihachi Mishima was, so Tekken 8 is resurrecting the big bad dad yet again

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Guess who's back

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Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing Astarion, a pale white-haired vampire man with red eyes
"I realized very quickly this was D&D": Astarion actor Neil Newbon sniffed out Baldur's Gate 3, or maybe Icewind Dale 3, and put in for 10 of the RPG's 12 races mid-Final Fantasy 16

By Hirun Cryer Published

News "I'll play a goblin holding a pint"

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BioShock
Former BioShock director Ken Levine spoke about Alec Baldwin and Emma Stone for roles in the sci-fi series, but he's unsure gamers really care about Hollywood actors

By Hirun Cryer Published

News They're also apparently too busy

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Arrowhead Game Studios/64 Bits via YouTube
This 16-bit arcade-style Helldivers 2 demake concept captures the chaos of managed democracy perfectly

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Imagine it's 1996 and this hot new arcade game just released

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Star Wars Outlaws Trailblazer ship flies towards the desert planet of Tatooine
Ubisoft shoots down delaying Star Wars Outlaws over widespread graphics complaints: "The level of quality of the world and the experience is really very high"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News "We are really leveraging our engine, and I think people will love it"

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Diablo 4 Hanged Man's Hall is home to endgame boss Ardariel
Diablo 4 Season 5 campfire livestream from Blizzard devs is coming "in a couple weeks with final notes and all"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News We'll find out which features from the PTR will be sticking around

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Diablo 4's new Spiritborn class races through the jungle
Ironing out Diablo 4's first new class, Blizzard went through "like 60" prototype skills: "What feels fun? What's different? What's working for people?"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Making the Spiritborn sounds tough

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