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

Elden Ring Malenia boss fight blade miquella goddess rot cheese
Shadow of the Erdtree gives Elden Ring heroes 'Let Us Duo Her' a new way to wreck Malenia: Kick her into stun-locked mush for 35,000 damage

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Dryleaf Dane's new shoes are deadly

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Psychonauts 2
Psychonauts 2 was designed as the "complete opposite" of an FPS, because Tim Schafer wanted players to leave levels in a better condition than they found them

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Double Fine co-founder Tim Schafer looked to action games and shooters when planning out Psychonauts 2's levels

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Tekken 8 screenshot
Tekken icon Katsuhiro Harada asks fans to stop sending him character concepts, because he doesn't want to be sued

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Whether he could win a theoretical lawsuit is missing the point

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Cities: Skylines 2
Cities: Skylines 2 woes continue with console ports delayed indefinitely due to missed "stability and performance targets"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Colossal Order will review the ports again in August

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CD Projekt/NexusMods via nikich340
Huge Witcher 3 mod offering custom characters with new combat styles and quests predates CD Projekt's own modding tools

By Hirun Cryer Published

News But it also utilizes AI voices

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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
9 years after Metal Gear Solid 5, no one can decide if one particular scene is a piece of classic Kojima genius, or just a simple olfactory plot hole

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Can Big Boss canonically smell?

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FromSoftware/@SteinsAlter via Twitter
This fan-made Elden Ring anime teaser shows a greatest hits collection of the RPG's bosses, and it's out later this year

By Hirun Cryer Published

News The anime will cram everything into 5 minutes

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Baldur's Gate 3 emperor
Baldur's Gate 3 leads gather at the same place they considered how to finish the RPG 2 years ago to discuss "lift-off" for what's next: "Spirits are high"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Larian previously confirmed two new games were in the works

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Sekiro veteran beats infamous Isshin after 45 tries without running, jumping, or countering, and they're asking the FromSoftware community for other boss challenges

By Hirun Cryer Published

News And I thought Isshin was tough on a normal playthrough

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CD Projekt/NexusMods via MerseyRockoff
Another Witcher 3 mod adds cut content back into the RPG, and this time it's boat races that have been lurking in the game files for nearly 10 years

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Wind's howling, but now that's a good thing

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The First Descendant crossplay
The First Descendant lead explains that the shooter's microtransactions didn't work properly at launch because too many purchases were made all at once

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Suffering from success?

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Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail cinematic screenshot showing Alphinaud Leveilleur, an Elezen boy with short white hair
Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail players on PlayStation and Xbox get free game time as Yoshi-P apologizes for the bumpy launch

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Yoshi-P apologizes for disconnection and freezing issues

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard art showing the RPG's companions grouped together
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has transmog for all the RPG's companions, and 'aspirational' armor so you can see what your Rook will look like in the "mid-to-late game"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Aspirational armor preview is a novel new feature

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot showing Solas, a pale bald Elven mage, wielding lightning-like powers while grimacing
Before Dragon Age: The Veilguard, one fan is archiving 15 years of BioWare's additional RPG series storytelling to prevent it being lost

By Hirun Cryer Published

News There's short stories, comic books, and even cookbooks here

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Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing a male Viera - a rabbit-like race with lengthy ears - looking up, his eyes yellow and skin a deep blue
Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail reached "a record number of concurrent users" for a total the MMO hasn't seen since the release of A Realm Reborn 11 years ago

By Hirun Cryer Published

News That record isn't without its caveats, though

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Elden Ring
Shadow of the Erdtree fans feel vindicated after Elden Ring patch reveals a Spirit Summon was actually healing bosses: "Tiche really was healing the f***ing enemy!"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It was Black Knife Tiche all along

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Elden Ring DLC launch trailer invader
Elden Ring's busted Perfume Bottles and most overpowered weapon are no more thanks to a new Shadow of the Erdtree patch

By Hirun Cryer Published

News No more boss cheese for you

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Helldivers 2 Viper Commandos
Helldivers 2 dev says "no new Warbond yet," reaffirming Arrowhead's commitment to slow them down and provide quality over quantity

By Hirun Cryer Published

News We don't know when we'll see Arrowhead's next Warbond

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Elden Ring
First new Elden Ring patch finally gets Shadow of the Erdtree's annoying Golden Hippopotamus off your back

By Hirun Cryer Published

News We all hate the big hippo

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Elden Ring
The most terrifying bug in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is this one that makes the final boss spawn twice

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Yes, he just used a Mimic Tear

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
Nintendo says it doesn't need generative AI to make games because it has "decades of know-how" and doesn't want any "issues with intellectual property rights"

By Hirun Cryer Published

News Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa speaks on generative AI

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Fallout 76
Fallout 76's infamously rare masks get even harder to find as Bethesda adds a whole bunch more and the drop rate plummets to 0.238%

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It's rough out there

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Final Fantasy 14
Grape news: Final Fantasy 14's beloved low-poly grapes are still appropriately polygonal after the MMO's huge graphics update

By Hirun Cryer Published

News 7.0's big overhaul didn't cull our lovely grapes

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom evil genius creates a Lynel killer to surpass Metal Gear: the rock 'em sock 'em golem

By Hirun Cryer Published

News It's far from an honorable death

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The First Descendent
Co-op looter shooter The First Descendant gets 3 days of increased XP and gold gains to appease fans after launch issues lead to 'Mixed' start on Steam

By Hirun Cryer Published

News The apology tour commences

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