Ashley Bardhan

Ashley Bardhan

Senior Writer

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

Destiny 2 Gambit's Drifter
Bungie studio head reportedly leaves after 16 years with the company following mass layoffs

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News The Bungie "reduction" continues

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Amy Rose gives a thumbs up
Sonic fans couldn't wait for Sega's new ARG – until they spotted the AI training agreement

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Kind of kills the vibe

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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld with purple backdrop and sad text face on screen.
$949 Steam Deck OLED is the beginning – MSI lead warns there's "much room for another price hike"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News I felt that in my wallet

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Tenna's face screen shows the number five
Deltarune Chapter 5 immediately breaks all-time Steam peak with nearly 300,000 players and counting

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News It's getting closer and closer!

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Arc Raiders Reaver Set trailer screenshot shows someone wearing spiky armor with antlers.
Arc Raiders dupes might be dead after Embark squashes them with patch that makes cheaters cry

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Let's hope it stays that way

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Half-Life: Alyx
$1,049 Steam Machine is still a "good value," Valve engineer says

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News This is an expensive time to be alive

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Helldivers 2 soldier watches a nuclear explosion in the distance with his arms stretched wide
Next Helldivers 2 Warbond "needs more time to cook," Arrowhead says, so it's getting delayed

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Most fans are just glad Arrowhead let them know

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Path of Exile mirage djinn in sandy with chain
Path of Exile co-creator "would have scoffed at something like Baldur's Gate 3" 10 years ago

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "There are so many different ways to monetize a game. Every one of them has drawbacks," says Chris Wilson

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Sorry Kingdom Hearts nerds, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead says sea salt ice cream "isn't a homage"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News It's a nice idea, though

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Hand pressing Steam Machine power button on desk.
Valve says Steam Machine is $1,049 because it "doesn't align with our beliefs" to subsidize the cost

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News If you say so

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Green petals fly around a green flower
Deltarune Chapter 5 features a song Toby Fox wrote 10 years ago, to his mother's disappointment

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News But fans couldn't be more excited

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A synth torso wriggles on the ground
Alien Isolation 2 leads want better tech and more space to sear the horror sequel into your memory

By Ashley Bardhan Published

Interview Interview | Al Hope and Ana Sopikova want to show you what they hath wrought

Interview
Fractured Blooms character stands in field
This farming sim horror demo is better than anything you'll play during Steam Next Fest

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News I've never experienced anything like Fractured Blooms

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Key art for Valor Mortis shows a man kneeling before a large bust of Napoleon
Valor Mortis' Steam Next Fest demo shouldn't work, but the first-person Soulslike combat is too good

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Receiving psychic messages from Napoleon has changed me

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Pinhead glowers in the shadows
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival reveals October release date in age-restricted new trailer

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Saber Interactive is letting it all hang out

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Orange GamesRadar+ Summer Preview border highlights a screenshot of Pinhead looking smug
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is the first shooter to match my freak

By Ashley Bardhan Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview | Saber Interactive isn't holding anything back – unless it's with chains

Summer Preview
Simon Ordell looks at a gadget in his hands in a dark, misty town in key art for Silent Hill Townfall, cropped for a header, with the orange GamesRadar+ Summer Preview 2026 frame
Silent Hill: Townfall would be a better horror game if it had nothing to do with Silent Hill

By Ashley Bardhan Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview | We're really not in Silent Hill anymore

Summer Preview
Key art for SAW: Genesis showing a figure with a head crushed by square pistons, flanked by two characters with smudged faces, with the orange GamesRadar+ Summer Preview 2026 frame
Saw: Genesis is a bloody blend of Dead by Daylight, The Outlast Trials, and nu-metal music video death scenes

By Ashley Bardhan Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview | Saw: Genesis seems prepared to withstand the asymmetrical horror game blight

Summer Preview
The xenomorph attacks, drool glistening as its multiple mouths open, in Alien Isolation 2's prologue, with the orange GamesRadar+ Summer Preview 2026 frame
15 years after the first game made horror history, Alien Isolation 2 unleashes a smarter, meaner Xenomorph

By Ashley Bardhan Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview | After going hands-on, Creative Assembly seems to have done the impossible: improving the apex predator

Summer Preview
A man missing a jaw screams
I am diagnostically rabid for Silent Hill remake studio Bloober's new Saw horror game

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Saw: Genesis is my gift from God

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A close-up of blue eyes
Alien Isolation 2 claustrophobic new trailer promises pure terror 12 years later

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Creative Assembly will have more to share soon

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Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell designer Clint Hocking says "I don't think I could ever do better" than Chaos Theory

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Done and dusted

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GTA 6
"Not every publisher" is running away from GTA 6 and making September a nightmare of game releases

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Hold your ground, indie people

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God of War Laufey
God of War will "always tell stories about Kratos," says Sony Santa Monica creative lead Cory Barlog

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News It's not a departure, it's an expansion

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A masked man holds a baby
Sony likes Phantom Blade Zero so much, it's getting its own show this summer

By Ashley Bardhan Last updated

News Pre-orders will soon begin for the game's October 29 launch

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