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

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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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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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Yuffie stands in a jungle in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation with her mouth open
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is "the end," but Square Enix director won't rule out a spin-off

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News The trilogy could become a universe

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Wardogs character points weapon at the camera
Wardogs devs are "d*** heads," according to Wardogs devs feeling sorry for prioritizing streamers

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Self-awareness is the first step

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Genshin Impact
Genshin Impact dev HoYoverse wins $112K in court after AI company stole 63 of its characters' voices

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News "Nearly identical characteristics"

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Marvel's Wolverine - Sabertooth holding Wolverine up with a clawed hand ready to strike and a big grin
That great PS3 Wolverine game saw zero crunch because the movie it accompanied was delayed, dev says

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News X-Men Origins: Wolverine still gets two claws up

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Link looks at an NPC couple twirling
After another scalping disaster, Nintendo is restocking the Legend of Zelda Switch 2

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Everyone else: good luck

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Large monster stands in field of purple flowers
The AA games industry needs "a few more Expedition 33s," says Valor Mortis director

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Come on publishers, take a chance on AA

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Adult link holding the Master Sword in Ocarina of Time Remake
Zelda: Ocarina of Time Direct viewership more than doubled the last State of Play, analyst finds

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Nostalgia is a powerful weapon when you're looking for viewers

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GTA 6
GTA 6 fans track down real-life nudist resort featured in leaks just to drive its owner to madness

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Leave these nice naked people alone

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Fallout 2 promotional art
Fallout co-creator tells new devs they're "wrong" to expect making games to be a "stable job"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Get used to what you could never be used to

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