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

Borderlands 4 screenshot showing bandit mask
Putting the Borderlands 4 reveal just 2 weeks after the Borderlands movie's $90m flop is being hailed as Randy Pitchford's ultimate "big brain move"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News "Damage control at it’s finest"

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Naraka: Bladepoint
Tomb Raider fans in shambles after Lara Croft turns up at Opening Night Live as part of a Naraka: Bladepoint crossover, not the long-overdue new game they got excited for

By Hirun Cryer Published

News The last Tomb Raider game was nearly 6 years ago

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A screenshot of gameplay for the game, Civilization 6.
After 8 years and multiple expansions, Firaxis had to make Civilization 7 because Civ 6 "was getting too big for its britches"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Civilization 7 is also solving a huge problem by dividing campaigns into three ages

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Mafia: The Old Country
Mafia: The Old Country is going "back to the roots of what fans love about the Mafia franchise," and acts as a prequel in 1900s Sicily

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It's out next year

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Key art of the Spiritborn class in Diablo 4's Vessel of Hatred DLC.
Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred is getting a new PvE co-op dungeon that sounds like a full-blown raid

By Hirun Cryer Published

News There's also a new dungeon with player control over loot

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Key art for Marvel Rivals.
Marvel Rivals reveals Captain America and The Winter Soldier, and confirms its leaked December release date

By Hirun Cryer Published

News All heroes will be unlocked at launch

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Path of Exile 2
Path of Exile 2 hits early access in November with various horrific demonic entities in tow

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It's looking like a hoot

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Borderlands 4
Borderlands 4 has finally been revealed, and it's out in 2025 across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S

By Hirun Cryer Published

News We're venturing away from Pandora this time

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Black Myth Wukong mana
Black Myth: Wukong's first optional boss Wandering Wight is taking names, so of course players are already doing no-hit kills and cheesing him

By Hirun Cryer Published

News This noggin packs a punch

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Grand Theft Auto
Former GTA dev on the studio that became GTA 5-maker Rockstar North: "There was a spirit of creativity and freedom that just doesn’t exist today"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Here's a bit of history you might not know

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Black Myth Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong Steam player count surpasses Palworld as the action RPG surges past Counter-Strike 2 to become Steam's second-biggest game ever

By Hirun Cryer Last updated

News It's Steam's biggest-ever single-player launch

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Black Myth Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong dev warns of "occasional serious issues" on PC even after "multiple internal full-process tests"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News This is given a PC's "myriad of software and hardware environments"

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Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation Warbond diving
New Helldivers 2 patch finally fixed ragdolling from those pesky Impalers and rocket-wielding Automatons

By Hirun Cryer Published

News There's also a fix for flamethrowers straight up ignoring enemies

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Stormgate screenshot featuring complex basebuilding
Dev behind StarCraft "spiritual successor" Stormgate says the strategy game's mixed reviews are fine, but players shouldn't expect StarCraft devs to make StarCraft quality straight off the bat

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It hasn't been the best start for Stormgate

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Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2's new story trailer was Bloober's "love letter" to the horror classic's 2001 trailer, and in some parts it's a shot-for-shot remake

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Here's our first look at Eddie

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Borderlands
Barely 3 weeks after its $90m flop, the Borderlands movie is reportedly giving up on cinemas and going straight to streaming

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It's reportedly earned back just $21 million of its $110 million budget

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Death Stranding 2
Hideo Kojima drops a new Death Stranding 2 actor teaser, but fans quickly deduce that it's one of his long-time collaborators

By Hirun Cryer Published

News That sure is Kenjiro Tsuda

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Star Wars Outlaws
Star Wars Outlaws gets stunning new art with a collaboration from acclaimed manga artist behind Afro Samurai and Batman Ninja

By Hirun Cryer Published

News This is Takashi Okazaki's latest collaboration

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Bully
Rockstar's classic Bully has been rated for consoles and PC, but it's probably just the imminent GTA+ re-release

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Hold the hype

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Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club
Nintendo's first Famicom Detective Club game in 35 years is getting an evolving demo starting next week

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Emio - The Smiling Man's demo will get two more chapters before launch

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Rollerdrome screenshot
"Please pirate it because none of us work at the company that owns this anymore": Dev of stylish skating shooter marks its 2-year anniversary with a call for piracy

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Rollerdrome dev Roll7 was reportedly shut down by Take-Two earlier this year, though the publisher denies doing so

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Hunt: Showdown 1896
Hunt: Showdown's Steam reviews take a battering after the colossal 1896 update brings dreary UI and stuttering to the gothic PvPvE shooter

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Just 36% of the recent 6,041 reviews are positive

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Monster Hunter Wilds
Monster Hunter Wilds is really putting the Chatacabra through it in the weapon showcases, and fans are almost feeling bad for the beastie

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It's hammer time!

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Dragon Age: The Veilguard fans are head over heels for Morrigan's return, but we've got more questions than answers

By Hirun Cryer Published

News What's actually going on with Morrigan?

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Definitive Edition
Meta says GTA San Andreas' VR port has been put "on hold indefinitely," nearly 3 years after it was announced

By Hirun Cryer Published

News So long, San Andreas in VR

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