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's Quasar Cannon becomes even more of a fan-favorite as players realize it one-shots bot ships of every flavor, including the new Gunships
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News We have a new popular Stratagem
Palworld patch adds slew of new items, abilities, and quality-of-life changes, leading to "amazing" praise from players: "These guys keep knocking it out of the park"
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News The new Raid boss Bellenoir is finally here
Stellar Blade's dev working on a new "cross-platform next-gen" game after its PS5 exclusive
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News Shift Up goes back to multi-platform
The Suicide Squad battle pass can be smashed through in just 17 hours - as long as you skip all the missions and murder hordes of giant red spiders
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News But you'll have to unlock the Joker first
Helldivers 2 honors fallen soldiers with a free cape as part of 'Malevelon Creek Memorial Day,' including a presidential directive from Super Earth's leader
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News The 'Fallen Heroes' Vengeance' cape is rolling out now
Stellar Blade director recommends players make Eve wear actual clothes "as much as possible" in the action-RPG, instead of the NSFW 'Skin Suit'
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News Wrap up warm
In a move Helldivers 2 soldiers call "uncalled for," devs nerf shotgun key to the war effort as it was "hands down the best sniper rifle" in the game
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News Players aren't pleased, even after a developer explained the adjustments
A 24-hour free giveaway sent Steam's new viral co-op mega-hit to the moon, with 6.2 million owners after its first day
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News Content Warning is the hot new topic
Palworld community manager hits back at DokeV being a "Palworld killer," says the open-world RPG "looks incredible" and games don't have to compete
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News Knock it off
Oh good, Helldivers 2's new Automaton Gunships are very real and here to obliterate Super Earth’s forces from the skies
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News This felt a little inevitable
More than 3 years since its disastrous launch, Cyberpunk 2077 CEO says he's "finally happy" with the RPG
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News It's been a long road for CD Projekt's game
RPGs are so hot right now: Dragon’s Dogma 2 sells 2.5 million copies in a week, while Unicorn Overlord races past 500,000 copies sold
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News Capcom and Vanillaware's new games are off to flying starts
New Helldivers 2 patch unleashes blizzards and sandstorms, and quietly increases the level cap to help you manage democracy even harder
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News There's good news and bad news aplenty
Hours after claiming Malevelon Creek, Helldivers 2 players spot massive cloaked gunships above Automaton worlds, which seems bad
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News Nothing good can come of this
Helldivers 2 daredevil flattens a Hulk, tanks a Rocket Devastator, shrugs off a punch from another Hulk, bombs 2 factories, somehow lives: "They aren't letting me die"
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News How in the name of Super Earth did they survive?
Capcom wants to know how much you’d pay for Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC - and it sounds like more than just new microtransactions
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News Could this be an indication of things to come?
Helldivers 2 brought to its knees by snow, as devs tell players to stop having game-crashing snowball fights
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News "We advise against snowball throwing!"
Action-RPG standout Stellar Blade might get a sequel if there's demand, director teases
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News A sequel could potentially reveal more about Eve and her allies
Legendary strategy studio responsible for Company of Heroes and Age of Empires 4 goes independent as Sega cuts 240 jobs across 3 developers
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News Relic Entertainment is going solo
10,000 Among Us players are using an outdated version from 2.5 years ago, and the devs are begging them to update
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News Innersloth is just as confused as you are
Embracer sells Borderlands studio Gearbox for $460 million after acquiring it for $1.3 billion just 3 years ago
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News Embracer retains Gearbox's publishing arm, however
As Stellar Blade's demo gets action RPG fans unglued, director says there isn't a photo mode but you can ask for one, which folks will surely be normal about
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News Expect a lot of demands
I want so many of my favorite JRPGs to get the kind of update that just dropped for already-stellar remake Star Ocean: The Second Story R
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News There's new bosses, endgame gear, and more