Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
Assassin's Creed Shadows canon mode doesn't include romance because it's too "personal": "It was better to not make it canon"
News But, but, but, but
Phantom Blade Zero director says playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 "reminded me of Final Fantasy 10" and "I'd love to bring back some vibes from the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 era"
News Soulframe Liang misses the good ol' PlayStation days
Blizzard narrative team votes in favor of union one week after Call of Duty workers did the same, pushing back against mass layoffs at Microsoft that saw 9,000 jobs lost in favor of AI
News "With a union, we're able to preserve what makes this place special"
Evil otome game that tracks my period adds rail shooter where you murder Pokemon-style pets for love, and everyone's a lot more shirtless than you'd think
News Love and Deepspace has it all
Behold, the unlikely but 95% positively reviewed challenger to Steam's anime horse girl empire: "A roguelite training game where you raise a dragon girl who eats anything"
News Go ahead, eat a mountain in Drapline
Superman star says she'd instantly say yes to a solo Hawkgirl movie with James Gunn, who's "prioritizing" quality over "the most money": "And I'm not just saying that to get my own movie"
News The Last of Us actor Isabela Merced is ready for more Hawkgirl
Even Helldivers 2 studio CEO agrees Fortnite's new bug-squashing season "feels very democratic," but only God and General Brasch know if that makes an official collab more or less likely
News Could you be more vague?
Battlefield 6 dev responds to aim assist comparison with Call of Duty, says "you are the skill," and assist doesn't play for you
News "This has always been the case"
Enraged Dragon Age fans are punishing EA for rejecting BioWare's remaster pitch by covering pixel art map Wplace in adorable threats
News Oh no! I'm so scared, I guess
Subnautica 2 dev says people like survival games so much because they speak to our "little monkey brains" and "we're all little monkeys"
News How do you do, fellow monkeys?
The Outer Worlds 2 dev says "it was quite a shock" to get bought by a giant corporation like Microsoft while making a game about how evil giant corporations are
News Art imitates life, etc.
43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland "worried about job loss" from AI, which seems justified now that his parent company Microsoft laid off 9,000 in exchange for more slop
News Brian Fargo is still deciding how he feels about generative AI
Silent Hill 2 composer Akira Yamaoka says making the game's soundtrack "felt almost like touching something divine" because he got to design sound for the game's many "smells"
News Hm, smells like lo-fi binaural beats for studying to
Take-Two boss dodges GTA 6 pricing as $80 games loom: "We've had variable pricing at the company forever"
News Well, that's not… bad, I guess?
Final Fantasy 10 dev reminds players obsessed with retro-style PS1 graphics in modern games that, back in my day, those graphics were a problem
News But they're so cute!
I visited a video game archivist trying to preserve some of the world's most forgotten history against all odds, and sometimes even other gamers
Feature Interview | The Strong Museum is protecting what even some game companies won't keep
Baldur's Gate 3 mocap actors were so dedicated to the RPG's romance that they really kissed, so Larian had to make sure nothing too garlicky was nearby: "We were very careful at lunches"
News Now, kiss!
"Yo this isn't Mass Effect, my guy, put the flirt gun down": Devs behind sci-fi survival game The Alters shoot down thirsty fans' requests to romance their clones
News Can't we all just love ourselves?
Helldivers 2 CEO says you should thank Sony for the game's Xbox port even though "we were all in support," and "we get a lot of help from PlayStation" with bug fixing
News Thanks, Sony!
20-year Rockstar vet Lazlow has been Grand Theft Auto's radio host since GTA 3, but he doubts he'll appear in GTA 6: "It was an amazing journey"
News Jeffrey Crawford "Lazlow" Jones is hanging up his headphones
Horror dev says her FMV game contains "no pornography whatsoever" but still got banned on Steam for NSFW content: "What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women"
News Vile: Exhumed is dark, bloody, and emotionally devastating, but that's not the problem
Microsoft, EA, and other publishers should give up on artificial intelligence: We peaked 21 years ago, when Resident Evil 4 devs were thrilled AI enemies could think "like a smart person" by using "weapons, of course"
News Chainsaws? I think you mean "undeniable genius"
Resident Evil names "AI-first" affront to humanity Duolingo bird its newest biological weapon, making it canon that Leon Kennedy has only learned Spanish by force
News He's green and holding me hostage
