Ashley Bardhan
Ashley is a Senior Writer a𝓡t GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freela𒊎nce 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
Elden Ring Nightreign recovers faster than a two-phase boss, hitting Mostly Positive reviews on Steam as FromSoftware drops patches to improve the solo and duo experience
News Take a look at that stamina regeneration
Palworld studio is releasing a psychological horror game so terrifying, even Pocketpair's own publishing manager has been "too scared to play it"
News "I just watched others play"
Elden Ring Nightreign wizard accidentally discovers 4-perk stack that turns the game into Vampire Survivors bullet heaven
News I don't think you're supposed to do that
Zynga suddenly shuts down studio from Diablo and Torchlight creators before they even had a chance to reveal its first original IP
News "This decision is part of a strategic realignmenဣt"
"Long time no see": Lethal Company update V70 is out now after several quiet months, adding a radar face cam and "the most powerful creature in the game"
News "The power easily goes to its head"
GTA 5 dev says his new open-world game is 20 hours of no-filler content at a now-quaint $60 because players "worried about the price of eggs" want "value for money"
News "I t🌠hink people want the meat, and t🐬hey want the potatoes"
Canceled EA Black Panther game reportedly had its own version of Monolith’s patented Nemesis System, which studio closures keep punting toward oblivion
News We had our chance, EA blew it
FromSoftware reveals mysterious Elden Ring Nightreign character hours before the game comes out, singlehandedly ending the parrying debate with undead knights who do all the work for you
News The Revenant makes necromancy look easy
Very dead Sony game Concord is offline for good, but you can still buy this commemorative plaque that's already soaring past $3,000 at auction
News This𒈔 🅺feels like watching a body get donated to science
"It's terrifying": CEO behind ex-Helldivers, WoW devs' new studio says it's a "silly," "ridiculous" time to create a new studio, but someone needs to stop "ignoring 52% of the world population"
news Blue Scarab Entertainment is doing ꦦsomething different with Equinox: Homecoming
22 years on, the designer behind Silent Hill 3's "cute but scary" Robbie the Rabbit mascot is still obsessed with the "tiny but grotesque" – and so am I
Interview Interview | I can't imagine Silen💜t Hill without Usagi Tanaka's Robbie the Rabbit
REPO's "most powerful weapon" yet is a cannon that turns the cart into a tank, and this thing's friendly fire is absolutely going to destroy relationships
News The Cart Cannon seems terrifying
"The game has been thoroughly massacred": Infinity Nikki manages a reverse No Man's Sky, destroying a good game with a single update that might be the biggest mess of 2025 so far
News Infinity Nikki players are prepared to🌠 boycott – I mean, #girlcott
Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"
News I guess that's one way to look at it!
GTA 6 fans think a blurry screenshot proves the game will be the first in the series to feature children: "That's gotta be a kid FR"
News Is it, though?
Saints Row 2 "glitch" that sets your entire body on fire is actually an intentional human torch mechanic that was removed from the game
News It was a good idea, Volition
6 years before Batman: Arkham, Saints Row developer Volition kept working on a stealth Batman game even after its original idea got scrapped for being worse than GTA 3
News Volition's Batman was the blueprint
A zillion years before Hogwarts Legacy, pre-Saints Row Volition was making a Baldur's Gate-style Harry Potter RPG and "it's never been seen by the public before"
news "When Volition and THQ p🉐itched this game, at least some of the THQ executiveꦡs came dressed in robes and had owls with them"
Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition announced – it's out next week, promising visual "overhaul," expanded mod support, and a free upgrade for some
News Embrace the god rays
The First Descendant devs reveal Nier: Automata collab and hoverbike at PAX East as live audience politely claps for anime butt
News Yep, looks good!
The unauthorized Pokemon musical titled "Balls: The Monster Catchin' Musical" made me question everything about life and Nintendo copyright
Feature Opinion | Why did there have tℱo be a "splash zoไne"?
Amid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's turn-based hype, Square Enix asks JRPG fans "what's the best combat system" in its catalog and shares "some games with brilliant battles"
News Can I interest anyone in a little🍒 Final Fantasy?
"I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original
News Wait, did ConcernedApe just say Stardew Va🍨lley 2?
