
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

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is the hardcore Soulslike you'd get if you tried to turn Sekiro into Chinese Dark Souls 3, and that devotion to FromSoftware is exactly why I like it
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | But, like, can developer Leenzee make me stop dying? Please?

Bandai Namco's first-ever roguelike is an entertaining, direct descendent of Hades with anime girls, but I wish it really was "unlike any roguelike" the way its devs promised me
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree will launch September 19

Capcom's android apocalypse Pragmata is such a genius mix of shooters and puzzle games, both of which I normally hate, and I'm starting to rethink my entire existence
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Pragmata is set to release in 2026

With Haunted Chocolatier still miles away, farming sim with serial killers Grave Seasons is here to scratch that cozy horror itch until it bleeds
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | I'd live in this spooky Stardew Valley, despite the risks

Flanked by The Duskbloods and The Blood of Dawnwalker, Code Vein 2 swoops into the vampire game renaissance by "improving" the lovably janky Soulslike RPG we got 6 years ago
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Code Vein 2 promises heavy emotions and heavy combat

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Order of Giants DLC is out this September with more of everyone's favorite fedora-wearing archaeologist
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The DLC will release on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S

I didn't know how badly I needed a PvPvE Dark Souls in my life until Mistfall Hunter threw one in my lap
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Hunt: Showdown meets FromSoftware was always going to look this cool

Capcom finally reveals first trailer for Resident Evil 9 at Summer Game Fest a year after its announcement
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Resident Evil Requiem looks… well, evil

Nostalgic new Mixtape trailer demonstrates the impossible power of a Life is Strange-like: I now want to attend my high school reunion
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Mixtape looks like a teenage daydream

Wildcard Wishlist: These are the games we've pinned our hopes and dreams on turning up at Summer Game Fest 2025
By Andrew Brown published
Feature SGF Predictions | Our brains might not want to take the risk, but these are the games our hearts demand

Elden Ring Nightreign recovers faster than a two-phase boss, hitting Mostly Positive reviews on Steam as FromSoftware drops patches to improve the solo and duo experience
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Take a look at that stamina regeneration

Palworld studio is releasing a psychological horror game so terrifying, even Pocketpair's own publishing manager has been "too scared to play it"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "I just watched others play"

Elden Ring Nightreign wizard accidentally discovers 4-perk stack that turns the game into Vampire Survivors bullet heaven
By Ashley Bardhan published
News I don't think you're supposed to do that

Zynga suddenly shuts down studio from Diablo and Torchlight creators before they even had a chance to reveal its first original IP
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "This decision is part of a strategic realignment"

"Long time no see": Lethal Company update V70 is out now after several quiet months, adding a radar face cam and "the most powerful creature in the game"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "The power easily goes to its head"

GTA 5 dev says his new open-world game is 20 hours of no-filler content at a now-quaint $60 because players "worried about the price of eggs" want "value for money"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "I think people want the meat, and they want the potatoes"

Canceled EA Black Panther game reportedly had its own version of Monolith’s patented Nemesis System, which studio closures keep punting toward oblivion
By Ashley Bardhan published
News We had our chance, EA blew it

FromSoftware reveals mysterious Elden Ring Nightreign character hours before the game comes out, singlehandedly ending the parrying debate with undead knights who do all the work for you
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The Revenant makes necromancy look easy

Very dead Sony game Concord is offline for good, but you can still buy this commemorative plaque that's already soaring past $3,000 at auction
By Ashley Bardhan published
News This feels like watching a body get donated to science

"It's terrifying": CEO behind ex-Helldivers, WoW devs' new studio says it's a "silly," "ridiculous" time to create a new studio, but someone needs to stop "ignoring 52% of the world population"
By Issy van der Velde published
news Blue Scarab Entertainment is doing something different with Equinox: Homecoming

22 years on, the designer behind Silent Hill 3's "cute but scary" Robbie the Rabbit mascot is still obsessed with the "tiny but grotesque" – and so am I
By Ashley Bardhan published
Interview Interview | I can't imagine Silent Hill without Usagi Tanaka's Robbie the Rabbit

REPO's "most powerful weapon" yet is a cannon that turns the cart into a tank, and this thing's friendly fire is absolutely going to destroy relationships
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The Cart Cannon seems terrifying

"The game has been thoroughly massacred": Infinity Nikki manages a reverse No Man's Sky, destroying a good game with a single update that might be the biggest mess of 2025 so far
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Infinity Nikki players are prepared to boycott – I mean, #girlcott
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