Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
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
Features 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
Elden Ring Nightreign players sick of Everdark Augur boss can't even pretend to be sad there's a glitch that makes it jump off the edge of the map: "Nightlord felled… off the map"
News I will always remember you, Everdark Augur
Steam founder Gabe Newell predicts AI will be "10 times as significant as the impact of CGI," tells film directors to act more like 19-year-olds with chatbot girlfriends and "actually use this tool"
News OK, Steven Spielberg
Hideo Kojima corrects himself with a flex, says actually 79.5% of Death Stranding 2 players "are continuing to play" past its ending instead of the 79% he first reported: "Please keep enjoying the game"
News Good job, Kojima - from Kojima
"This is a monumental moment": Weeks after Microsoft laid off 9,000, Call of Duty devs vote to ratify union contract guaranteeing raises as the publisher pushes AI
News "It feels like we've been sprinting a marathon"
GOG preservationists hit back at "censorship in gaming" by making a bunch of notable NSFW games free-to-own for a limited time: "If a game is legal and responsibly made, players should be able to enjoy it"
News Fight for your right to be inappropriate
Weapons lead Josh Brolin was drawn to Barbarian director's queasy new project "because psychologically, you want to keep confronting things like" toxic masculinity: "This staunch masculinity, I get very sickened by"
News I'm sure all the blood doesn't help
The first FPS from horror publisher Blumhouse is an unexpected blend of Resident Evil, Bloodborne, and mermaid folk horror, and it shouldn't work – but it does
Hands-on Hands-on Horror Special | Crisol: Theater of Idols is strange enough to stand out from the crowd of Resident Evil-likes
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads predict rise in "AA-class games" as production costs reach ridiculous heights, say only GTA 6 maker Rockstar "is able to meet that demand"
News Who needs AAA when you have a baguette?
EA exec says The Sims 5 is "not a good idea for our community" because The Sims 4 got so much DLC: "What I wouldn't want to have happen is you to have to start from day zero"
News Sadness in Sim City
Oh, that's how EA apparently expects Battlefield 6 to get 100 million players: it seems to have its own Warzone-style battle royale mode, "coming soon to Battlefield Labs"
News "WARZONE FINALLY HAS SOME COMPETITION"
Bloober devs say "there is something" of Silent Hill 1 and 2 in "all our horrors," but "we needed to invent something different" for new sci-fi game Cronos: The New Dawn
News James Sunderland would never make it in Poland
Cozy life sim Hello Kitty Island Adventure adds puny little dustball with no prospects, and I would cry from joy if I weren't so afraid of melting her bones into smaller, more miniscule pieces of dust: "Peak has returned"
News Say hello to your leader, Cogimyun
Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober casually confirms Cronos: The New Dawn release date is imminent during Nintendo Direct, with the new horror game set to release in September
News Oh, OK!
