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

The Sims creator blew 10 years and millions of dollars on new game, laid off team, and isn't done
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Not even Will Wright fully knows what he's doing

Nintendo changing prices of Switch 2 exclusives in the US, digital will be cheaper for new Yoshi
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Nintendo of America is joining the rest of the world

6 months after Borderlands 4 launch, Gearbox admits "we have more to do" to fix PC issues
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Gearbox has already made some big changes

"Weird" Steam launch of two different games with the same name ended in 3x more sales than expected
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Piece by Piece is doing well, thanks to Piece by Piece

Former God of War dev thinks "the plan was to do Egyptian at some point"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Did Kratos build the pyramids?

Palworld devs are "still bad at spending money and we're still bad at saving money"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You have to spend money to make money

Overwatch creator tries showing off his new Rust-like game but finds dev stuck in a T-pose instead
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "Look at the beautiful full moon"

Square Enix plans to add Google gen AI to Dragon Quest 10
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Keep it to yourself

Arc Raiders devs tortured each other during playtests, juicing Arc into Elden Ring bosses
By Ashley Bardhan published
News That's not very nice

Slay the Spire 2 inundated with bad reviews on Steam as players decide they hate an optional patch
By Ashley Bardhan published
News ROLLBACK!

Xbox says Copilot provides "coaching," but it actually talks to you like a baby with a controller
By Ashley Bardhan published
News What hath God wrought

Mysterious "new IP" from CD Projekt Red is now in early pre-development stages
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Hadar is happening

"Apologies, Palworld gamers," but Pocketpair lead says an underwater level will never happen
By Ashley Bardhan published
News That Pal is not The Little Mermaid

Overwatch was originally called "Monetized Shooter" because you had to buy each of its heroes
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Anyone up for a round of Monetized Shooter?

Peak is coming to Fortnite in what could be the collab of the century if there's Bing Bong
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The bundle arrives March 21

Death Stranding 2 developer offers nuanced take on Resident Evil Requiem's DLSS 5 makeover: "No"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Good point
Todd Howard says the only thing wrong with paid mods for Skyrim and Fallout is that people don't buy them
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Howard admires his Creations

Assassin's Creed Shadows players protest Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 "AI slop" filter
By Ashley Bardhan published
News They're going to yassify feudal Japan

Resident Evil Requiem is “better” with Nvidia DLSS 5, says Epic Games producer
By Ashley Bardhan last updated
News "Look at Grace’s face. Her skin shader has much better subsurface scattering"

I'm convinced the greatest horror game of all time is the Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly remake
By Ashley Bardhan published
Feature Now Playing | I'm making a home in Koei Tecmo's ghost town

AI making something to GTA 6's scale is "laughable," Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "There is a creator economy that these tools have enabled, no doubt"

Arc Raiders update nerfs notorious Il Toro shotgun from basically every angle
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You're welcome

Assassin's Creed director says "maybe the future is, to use the dirty word, AI vibe-coding"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "You kind of want to see the asset reuse in a way"
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