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 unauthorized Pokemon musical titled "Balls: The Monster Catchin' Musical" made me question everything about life and Nintendo copyright
Feature Opinio⭕n | Why did🐻 there have to be a "splash zone"?
Amid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's turn-based hype, Square Enix asks JRPG fans "what's the best combat system" in its catalog and shares "some games with brilliant battles"
News Can I interest anyone in𒁏 a little Final Fantasy?
"I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original
News Waitꦓ, did ConcernedApe just say S🅺tardew Valley 2?
"Stats in Souls don't matter": Ori studio founder and No Rest for the Wicked lead says the "attribute system has to die" in the ARPG inspired by Dark Souls since players don't get it
News "It's just ex🍸tremely 𝕴clear that we have to make a pretty drastic change"
GTA 6 map returns to Vice City and explores the riches of the Florida-lite state of Leonida: "Malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks"
News How quaint!
"IS THAT PHIL CASSIDY": New GTA 6 trailer seems to resurrect a fan-favorite GTA 3D loser years after he disappeared from the franchise
News If it is him, I say: congrats on the new arm
After playing Ghost of Yotei "at several stages of its development," former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida swears it's "even better" than Ghost of Tsushima
News Sounds good to me
LocalThunk shouts out "4th person to join the Balatro Discord" as their new deckbuilding tactics game gets rave reviews: "I TOLD YALL THIS GAME WOULD SLAP"
News StarVaders is out now
"It's a big first": Debut horse MMORPG from former World of Warcraft devs' studio is a Twin Peaks murder mystery unlike anything you've ever seen
Feature Feature | Equinox: Homecoming releases in Ea🀅rly Access on May 8
"Yesterday was probably one of the worst days of my life": New No Rest for the Wicked update was such a mess, its lead dev and the Ori studio's founder immediately issued a 23-point hotfix
News Hey, man – chill out
Elden Ring Nightreign outfits resurrect our favorite sun knight with their bucket load of Dark Souls references: "SOLAIRE IS BACK"
News Solaire is back, and so are we
Looks like Borderlands 4 heavily relies on the series' lore-bomb Sirens again, but it's sweetening the deal with new Vault Hunter Vex and her big purple cat
news Well, as long as there's a cat
In the longest dev apology in years, Infinity Nikki dev owns up to "nearly one hundred issues" in the dress-up RPG's new update as its Steam reviews disintegrate
News "We stand together with all our stylists"
$1,900 Doom: The Dark Ages graphic card bundle doesn't come with the game, but never fear – the $2,000 bundle does
News I can't do this anymore, Bethesda
Nier director Yoko Taro says "everything" he makes is influenced by Neon Genesis Evangelion, and that "I have zero charisma"
News Yoko Taro reflects on 15 years of Nier
Experts say Monolith's patented Nemesis System doesn't have to die with its Lord of the Rings games: "You can see some similar design language in the Mercenary system in Assassin's Creed Odyssey"
News More nemeses might await you
Nintendo tracks Super Mario friendships on official web page that reveals Pauline is an outcast, Waluigi is controversial, and Mario canonically doesn't like you
News Et tu, Kirby?
One giant leap for mankind: Baldur's Gate 3 mod "Withers' Big Naturals" succeeded by Oblivion Remastered mod "The Emperor's Big Naturals," so "finally the game is f***ing playable"
News Keep your eyes on the naturals – I mean, big pri𓃲z💖e, I mean the Emperor's eyes, I –
Oblivion Remastered is cool, Clair Obscur is good, but I just want this bizarre Legend of Zelda disciple that emerged from the sea of RPGs like a fish with legs
News Angeline Era is scheduled to release in 2025
Baldur's Gate 3 mocap director says Shadowheart actor's role in new JRPG Expedition 33 is even "better than her performance" in Larian's RPG
News "I'm immensely proud"
Ghost of Yotei leads say "the katana is still the most valuable weapon" even 300 years after Ghost of Tsushima, but "more opportunities to blow things up is never a bad addition for a video game"
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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director throws support behind JRPG Clair Obscur as Oblivion Remastered threatens to bury it: "This game was made by a team that has fewer people than I have years"
News "It's so brilliantly attuned"
