Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
The most mid Square Enix game in existence, Balan Wonderworld, shocks the nation and sells a single copy in the US this September: "Somebody made the conscious decision to pick up that game"
News Balan Wonderworld lives
Ex Nintendo marketing leads say Pokemon devs "were very shellshocked" and "freaking out" about Pokemon Sword and Shield 'Dexit' controversy: "It wouldn't go away"
News The people need their Pokemon
After 30 million rounds and 816,162 rubber ducks, Arc Raiders celebrates successful Server Slam open beta with some prompt bug squashing: "We took immediate action"
News It was a good Server Slam
Arrowhead thanks Helldivers 2 fans begging for optimization for their "restraint from calling in orbital strikes," promises to fix everything from snow distribution to NPC eyeballs
News Strap in, Helldivers
Proudly offensive Japanese video game receives sequel after 30 years in which players destroy hot dogs and Taylor Swift tacos in fictional "Amurikkka," and it's going straight to my wishlist
News Hong Kong 97 is back with a vengeance
"The darker side of the universe": No Man's Sky adds "spooky" Breach Expedition update with new solar systems as devs celebrate last big patch hitting 110,000 concurrent PC players
News We have to go deeper
Treyarch admits Black Ops 7 "controller players are winning slightly more in close-range" thanks to aim assist, says it's reworking it while Raven eyes similar changes for Warzone
News Check on the mouse-and-keyboard players in your life
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will now let players aim down sights "while sliding, diving, and wall jumping" without hated dexterity perk, and it's also adding louder footsteps
News One step forward, and then one louder step forward
Starfield designer admits Bethesda's space epic isn't "the same caliber" as Fallout and Elder Scrolls because it's full of procedural generation: "The planets start to feel very samey"
News It's good, but not great for Bethesda
Silksong fans discover how to put Hornet in jail for life and ruin their saves, which no one should do willingly unless they love suffering
News Free Hornet!
Nier creator Yoko Taro says he includes "small unknown features in my real autographs," so you might be getting scammed: "Nearly half of the autographs being resold are actually fake"
News What I do have are a very particular set of autographs
Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game"
News Shuhei Yoshida says he "cannot tell the difference" between new tech
Ex-Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says awkward Microsoft "this is an Xbox" campaign is the "wrong idea, wrong time": "Whoever came up with this clearly doesn't play games"
News Are you sure it's an Xbox?
Blumhouse first-person horror game is a Silent Hill dystopia where nobody sleeps, and you need to stealth around like it's Alien: Isolation – which I might be better at if I weren't so scared
Hands-on Hands-on | Sleep Awake is straight out of a bad daydream, and that's a good thing
The best part of Silent Hill f is also my favorite from Bloodborne, and it has nothing to do with "Soulslike" combat
Opinion Opinion | It's not always a haunted doll, but it's usually a haunted doll
Sony was so desperate for video games and the PS1 to look "f***ing cool" that marketing execs say they'd take games to "places that were almost quite dangerous" to be "associated with alcohol, drug taking… anything"
News Wow, that's pretty cool
Battlefield 6 players fear Closed Weapons mode was unfairly buried in the beta, but DICE lead says "we did measure" how many people picked it based on where it was in menus
News The battle for Open vs. Closed rages on
"My apologies for the screaming": Hades 2 magician beats most difficult Max Fear challenge after earth-shattering "lock in" that shouldn't be possible
News Boated has done it again
Ghost of Yotei only lets you pet the fox because of its "proper" research into Japanese history, says expert, but you might get a tapeworm if you tried it today
News Don't pet the fox, OK?
Bungie pushes the indefinitely delayed Marathon back on stage, announcing a closed test for this month and promising a "public update" on its development coming soon
News Marathon lives!
Nintendo requests $4,500,000 in court judgement against alleged Switch pirate, but its lawyer says the price tag "is nowhere near" a fair compensation for the "seriousness" of the issue
News The formerly anonymous defendant chose not to respond to a summons served in 2024
Ghost of Yotei fans tap the sign on new open-world games – you don't have to compare it to Red Dead Redemption 2
News Although, those Red Dead ice animations do look pretty cool
Years before Fable, Peter Molyneux finished making proto-city builder Populous in 12 hours because he "forgot" to do it sooner: "There was no end of the game"
News And the rest was history
