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

Lucia looks over her shoulder from the driving seat of a car, from the GTA 6 extended look
Amid PS5 Pro shortage, Sony implements a lottery system in Japan that requires 60 hours of playtime

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Real gamers only!

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A woman looks off to the side
PS5 survival horror everyone thought Hideo Kojima was working on returns to the PlayStation Store

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Abandoned is seemingly no longer abandoned

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Sothis, a goddess, lounges in her chair in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is too massive for How Long To Beat to have any useful results

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News A great activity, if you've got a spare 100 hours

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Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2 remake
Resident Evil 2 remake sales double on PS5 after Zach Cregger movie and discounts, says analyst

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News If discounts and Austin Abrams don't inspire you to get into Resident Evil, nothing will

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Tifa where's a mage-like outfit as her hand glows green in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead "regrets" hard Platinum trophy, director says Revelation's is "easier"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Completionists, take heed

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Nathan and Sam Drake with Sully in Uncharted 4: Among Thieves
Uncharted 4 was "a very different" game under Amy Hennig, says former Naughty Dog artist

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News But you already knew that

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Pragmata co-star Diana
After co-founder apology, Discord rolls out "rightfully" controversial age verification system anyway

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "More than 90% of you won't be asked to confirm your age"

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StarCraft 2030 screenshot
Blizzard confirms StarCraft "won't be exclusive" to Xbox and refuses to elaborate

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Curious…

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Halo: Campaign Evolved AI companion Cortana
Halo Studios didn't get to launch even one original title before Xbox decided to let Activision try

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News It got Halo: Campaign Evolved, and that's it

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Former Valve writer says "giant teams" don't work in video game dev, unless you're making GTA 6

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Chet Faliszek doesn't think Valve needs to get any bigger

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Marathon players shoot at a giant bug
Bungie admits Marathon "did not reach as many players as we had hoped"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Marathon is evolving with Bungie

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lets you automatically level characters and blast through the campaign

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News You'll have to earn the option, though

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God of War Laufey
The Last of Us director regrets using God of War Laufey as an example of the sorry state of AAA

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "Hot take: There's a lack of good leadership"

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Wolverine snarls as he tears apart a Sentinel from within in Marvel's Wolverine, his suit tattered and covered in blood
Marvel's Wolverine beat Death Stranding 2's entire lifetime PS5 revenue in 3 days, analyst estimates

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Go get 'em, bub

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Control Resonant screenshot showing Dylan and Jesse Faden reaching into the void
Control Resonant Metacritic score is better than its predecessor, but it can't touch 2026's top 20

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Remedy has some tough competition

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Blue AOE damage spreads in Divinity: Original Sin
Steam is shoveling RPGs at people, and I think it's the perfect time to get Divinity: Original Sin

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News But you only have until September 21

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God of War Laufey
TLOU director says AAA games are "boring," he's "not excited" looking at God of War Laufey gameplay

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "And that's nothing against the God of War team"

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GTA 6
With GTA 6 about to launch, Take-Two boss unloads on investor criticizing "years of delays"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Take-Two was "nearly bankrupt" before GTA 5 launched

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Hyper Light Drifter dev lays off "nearly everyone at the studio" after publisher backs out

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "Navigating an increasingly challenging industry has been extremely difficult"

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Diablo 4 patch 1.1
Activision Blizzard responds after new lawsuit alleges sexual harassment, discrimination, and crunch

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "We take these allegations seriously," the company says

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A man is shot in Wardogs
As Wardogs hits a "perfectly acceptable decline," studio boss asks players what they want to change

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News I'd like a banana gun, please

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Balatro Joker card
LocalThunk "leaks" Balatro 1.1 details and promises to avoid "a rushed botch job"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "I don't want this to be half baked"

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Exodus screenshot
Exodus lets you do polyamory, but the Mass Effect-like RPG's companions won't all be happy about it

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Behave yourself

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A Doom villain fixes his red eyes on what's ahead of him
Xbox Game Pass is "extremely poorly managed" and Doom should never have been on it, says ex-producer

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Andrew Willis isn't impressed

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The Leonida license plate "VCE BBY" appears on the back of a pink Corvette
GTA 6 teasers keep popping up as Travis Scott and more hint at Rockstar collaboration

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Who passed Rockstar the aux?

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