Ashley Bardhan
Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar🦋+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
The director behind one of anime's most extraordinary films manages to completely subvert my expectations with latest coming-of-age adventure: "Having a secret was really important"
Opinion Opinion | The Colors Within is out now
YouTuber reinvents the modern speedrun by chugging laxatives and shocking himself with a dog collar while playing Five Nights at Freddy's most disappointing sequel, and I can't stop watching
News You have ne🍎ver seen challenge runs like Mr. Wigglesworth's
Over 10 years later, Ninja Gaiden 4 is in the works with help from Nier: Automata and Bayonetta studio Platinum Games – and a Ninja Gaiden 2 remaster is out now
News Niജnja Gaiden 4 looks🅷 like a worthwhile upgrade for the 37-year-old franchise
After the success of Hogwarts Legacy and the failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Warner Bros. gaming boss leaves after 12 years
News David Haddad exits after a tumultuous few years
GTA 4 modders lose their YouTube channel as Take-Two seems to continue its quest to obliterate every GTA mod, but they still plan to deliver their upgraded Vice City
News Vice City: Tꦓhe Next-Gen Edition might escape Take-Two's wrat♒h
Analysts predict Switch 2 might struggle with attracting mainstream buyers for the same reason Wii U failed: "I can imagine 'normies' being a bit confused"
News Oh, awesome, another portable handheld device!
Bloodborne still seems a long way from getting an official 60fps port, but fans have finally gotten PS4 emulators to deliver the remaster they’ve wanted for years
News It's not official, but it🍌 sure is Bloodborne 60fps
Sony isn’t ready to wheel out 60fps Bloodborne just yet, but it is prepared to help Dark Souls and Elden Ring dev's parent company pump out 9,000 original IPs by 2027
News Kadokawa is going into manga overload
Nintendo says it believes in "giving proper credit" as it gets called out for failing to give proper credit to the original devs behind Donkey Kong Country Returns
News Credit where it's due, Nintendo
Resident Evil 4 director Shinji Mikami promised 20 years ago to disembowel himself if the legendary third-person shooter ever left GameCube, so nobody tell him it's now on over 10 different platforms
News Can someone check in on Shinji Mikami?
As the world reflects on the passing of David Lynch, let's remember his wonderfully weird, absolutely brilliant PS2 commercials: "This is so f***ing beautiful"
News Lynch could turn anything into art
Mario Kart 9 appears to take the Switch 2 back in time, swapping out Princess Peach’s sleek racing suit for the outfit she wore when she debuted in the kart racing series
News It's not aerodynamic but it is really cute
Nintendo can handle 20 million Switch 2 sales in the console's first year, analyst predicts – hopefully preventing any scalper plagues
News It's raining the Switch 2
Asked about Chris Pratt in the Helldivers 2 film, Arrowhead CEO says they want "as many A-list actors as possible" as long as "they all get violently killed immediately"
News Pratt is welcome to star in the Helldivers☂ adaptation, but it's gonna cost him
Skyrim artist secretly worked to save the RPG's ugly werewolves from getting cut before taking a demo to Todd Howard and getting a big reaction: "This is f***ing awesome"
News Werewolves are an art
I want to call this incredible action game with a harrowing story, bloodthirsty combat, and a psychedelic fantasy world my favorite game – but it doesn’t actually exist
Opinion Opinion | Alice: Asylum h🧸as been banished to purgatory, but that doesn't sto🎃p me from loving it
The sicko inside me desperately needs to play this ludicrous horror game that retells Dante’s Inferno through the power of anime girls
News Hell Maiden looks impossibly cool
Baldur's Gate 3 sleuth discovers "extremely dark" Astarion kidnapping scene that almost nobody has seen even more than a year later
news Have you found this rare scene?
Hideo Kojima is hard at work on Death Stranding 2, but he doesn't know how much longer he can stand the grueling game development process: "It's incredibly tough"
"At this age, I can't𒆙 hel🌄p but think about how much longer I'll be able to stay 'creative'"
Marvel Rivals is more popular than ever, soaring past 570K Steam players to set a new record as Season 1 launches
News The hero shooter is doing even better now🅠 than when it released
Indie dev slams the handbrake to pivot to what might be the first match-3 Metroidvania after playtests for a “match-3 survival horror comedy RPG” shockingly fell apart
News There was a lot going on
New Skyrim lore just dropped, and it only costs $49 in the Bethesda store
News It's now on sale
Marvel Rivals model "incredibly thankful to be able to say 'THAT'S MY ASS'" after realizing she's Sue Storm based on the curvature of her cheeks
News The "ass" in "asset" has been restored
