
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

New Dan Da Dan season 2 teaser reveals beloved Attack on Titan character as voice of Kinta as it marches on toward "chaotic" kaiju battle climax
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Bryce Papenbrook is very versatile

Silksong is powerful, but a new foe emerges at Gamescom: over 70 million horny otome game players – "Today is truly a momentous day"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News GTA 6? Hollow Knight? Sorry, I only know my hot stepbrother in Love and Deepspace

Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 finally exists in a world where technology "caught up to the ambition of what our game is" and praises the '80s double-jump: "Where in the rules of physics can I leap into the air and, out of mid-air, jump again?"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Technology has come a long way since the OG Borderlands

The Blood of Dawnwalker dev says comparisons to The Witcher 3 are inevitable, but it's OK because "we are not compared to a bad game" and "we are making our own kind of beasts"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It's flattering, really

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Netflix adaptation from John Wick writer gets first look trailer that's so full of moody anime spies, you might forget there hasn't been a new game in 12 years
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Whatever works for you, Ubisoft

Indie devs' weirdly promising Bubsy 4D wouldn't exist if the clouds hadn't parted and blessed the Atari CEO with a revelation: "I was like, 'Is this a nationally known IP?'"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News I don't know, is it?

Palworld suddenly has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam after Valve introduces language-based scoring: "As always, we're so incredibly grateful"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Goode werk, Palworld

"You have a dodge, people are like, 'Ah, that's a Soulslike'": Silent Hill f leads "disagree" melee combat makes it a Soulslike, say "the most authentic" way to play is story mode
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Chill, bro, it's just action-horror

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "I think they could charge $200" for Borderlands 4, "you can't find a better value in the world for any type of entertainment," then adds: "I wish they'd give it away, because then everyone would play it"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You might worry about pricing, but Randy Pitchford won't

The Blood of Dawnwalker lead say the medieval vampire RPG is a "narrative sandbox" with quests that "can be completed in any order, skipped entirely, or even never discovered at all"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You're a real vampire now

New Bloober game trailer at Gamescom seems to include a secret Silent Hill 2 cameo, unless I'm as confused as James Sunderland
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Meet me in our special place: Kraków

Control 2 fans in shambles after mysterious, psychological Gamescom trailer is revealed to be an advertisement for more Gamescom: "Step on legos for eternity"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News How could this happen…

You know and hated Bubsy 3D, now get ready for Bubsy 4D from Atari: a bit of '90s "platforming purrfection" that might signal the End Times
By Ashley Bardhan published
News We're in danger

Kirby Air Riders director Masahiro Sakurai says those who haven't already played the GameCube racer might ask themselves "if it's basically Mario Kart," and, uh, yeah, "it basically is like Mario Kart"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News OK, cool

Final Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts writer Kazushige Nojima is "delighted" to learn his games have made you all cry: "There's nothing more joyful"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News What's that supposed to mean?

Valve makes major change to Steam user reviews with new "language-specific" scores enabled by default – which could explain or minimize review bombs
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "Maintaining trust in the system is crucial to us"

More "Japanese companies seem to realize the value" of releasing old games without DRM, GOG staff say, so top "Dreamlist" game Final Fantasy 7 might actually, eventually happen
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Free Final Fantasy 7

Assassin's Creed Shadows beats Mario Kart World and Elden Ring Nightreign to be the top-selling 2025 game in Europe this year, but EA Sports FC 25 has still managed to sell more
By Ashley Bardhan published
News How could you, EA Sports FC 25?

Ex PlayStation boss believes developers are tired of "doing the same thing for so long" and welcomes a new era of "AA gaming, with a wide variety of content and games" like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Shawn Layden is over it!

"The biggest competitor to Grand Theft Auto 6 will be Grand Theft Auto 5," says industry analyst, because AAA is struggling against the live-service behemoths it created years ago
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "It's wild times to be trying to make new video games"

Fan of Steam's latest gacha craze Umamusume: Pretty Derby sacrifices brand new fridge to his sociopathic horse girl who's only winning third place: "She's a late bloomer"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Nothing wrong with that

Minecraft "is actually a hardcore action RPG in disguise," says former Path of Exile co-creator, "more hardcore than even Path of Exile," in fact, because there's lava
By Ashley Bardhan published
News I guess that makes sense

"They say that, in space, no one can hear you scream": Devs of hit space sim Hardspace Shipbreaker "reacquire full ownership" of the series, announce "multiple" follow-ups in development
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "That's right!"
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