
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

Over 12,300 people turned up to watch "John Silksong" release one last Hollow Knight: Silksong news update, and it was kind of a beautiful moment: "All of this truly has been my, no, our daily Silksong news"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News I just shed a tear

Weapons director Zach Cregger is making a Resident Evil movie without ever having seen a Resident Evil movie: "I think the people that are fans of the of the games are probably going to be stoked"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Can confirm, I'm stoked

Final Fantasy 14 boss Naoki Yoshida might not have become a Square Enix dev if it weren't for a "jerk" childhood friend that accidentally taught him PvP by tricking him into being bad at 1983 Mario Bros.
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "I hated the guts of my friend"

Silent Hill 2 remake studio boss says new game Cronos is on Switch 2 because he wants to bring back the "gold time" of GameCube horror classics like Resident Evil 4
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "We would like to be the one to open the new story for Nintendo right now"

Dan Da Dan anime voice actors are "very" influenced by the original Japanese cast, but Momo talks like her English-speaking grandma on purpose: "You could definitely see that she was raised by Seiko"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Exclusive: Dan Da Dan's Momo actor Abby Trott talks to GamesRadar+ at Anime NYC

Cronos: The New Dawn review: "An unabashed mash-up of survival horror greatest hits, from Dead Space to Silent Hill, with plenty of its own gory ideas"
By Ashley Bardhan published
Review

The best moment in the Dan Da Dan anime was also the hardest for Okarun and Momo's voice actors to record: "'I have to take a break.' I was like, 'I can't do it'"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The English voice of Okarun, A.J. Beckles, was so close to giving up

$112 million Borderlands movie was a critical and commercial disaster, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford just wants you to know "it would have been way worse if I directed it"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News OK, thanks for letting me know

"FromSoftware was my very first job after graduating": Legendary Bloodborne and Elden Ring composer says she'd watch the games in debug mode "partly because I couldn't beat the boss myself"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Me neither, Yuka Kitamura

"You could go and keep beating up people on top of buildings" forever in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but devs say "we're not making GTA" because even vampires need to sleep
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Vice City? No, no, you're in vampire country now

Hideo Kojima thinks video games are in the middle of a major shift: there was 2D, then 3D, and now "we have not just ChatGPT," but also extensive AI tech for devs to "take advantage of"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Kojima personally likes using AI to download celebrities

"No amount of hard work is enough to protect us": Over 450 Diablo devs sick of "the constant pressures of layoffs, passion tax, and crunch" under AI-obsessed Microsoft vote to unionize
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "I've witnessed the dread"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs denied DLC plans, but now the French JRPG's director admits that may have changed: "We may be cooking"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Yes, chef

Final Fantasy 9 translator admits some references to older games "slipped by us completely," and he'd love to see "a new team" tackle the JRPG: "I wish we'd been sharper about the nostalgia"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "Localization's come a long way in the last 25 years"

After their Black Panther game got killed, 14 EA devs are fleeing to D&D house Wizards of the Coast to "incubate a new game" under Monolith vet and Shadow of Mordor boss
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "Something very cool and new"

The first co-op multiplayer game from horror publisher Blumhouse is like REPO after a long, hot day in an Agatha Christie novel, and it just launched in early access
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Make your friends look into the Eyes of Hellfire

Hollow Knight: Silksong has now delayed at least 8 indie games in the 5 days since its September release date was announced: "I feel like a little krill trying to not get eaten by a blue whale"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News And the delays keep coming

Hideo Kojima says "I won't" play the Metal Gear Solid Delta remake from Konami, but its devs still "would love" if he did: "We want to deliver this game whilst being very respectful"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Maybe if Elle Fanning were in it

Silksong delayed a game so hard its devs made an entire trailer featuring a giant statue of Hollow Knight character Hornet
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Baby Steps can't baby step around this

"Dropping the GTA of indie games with 2 weeks notice makes everyone freak out": Devs wanted to "fight Silksong," but it's added another body to its kill count with delay of Persona-inspired tactics RPG
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Demonschool is delayed until November

The Balatro hivemind absorbs another victim as Super Smash Bros. modder is compelled to add Joker king Jimbo to Melee, and there hasn't been a new character this scary since 2001
By Ashley Bardhan published
News No, Jimbo – please don't hit me with a deck of cards, please!

It took Nintendo devs a year of "squashing and crushing watermelons" to record sound effects for Donkey Kong Bananza: "There were no more good watermelons"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News That's too many melons

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
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