Ashley Bardhan
Ashley is a Senior Writer at 12DOVE. 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

Legendary skating games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome just got yanked from storefronts after less than 3 years, and no one knows why
By Ashley Bardhan last updated
News Where did two of the best skating games go?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev on launching an RPG in a brutal month for games: "I think if this happened with the first game, morale would be crushed"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is out February 4

Fallout: New Vegas lead writer and Horizon Zero Dawn narrative director returns to Obsidian after 14 years, but swears "it's not" for New Vegas 2
By Ashley Bardhan published
News John Gonzalez returns to Obsidian as creative director

Dev behind the legendarily horny Dead or Alive series politely cites "impact on safety" while requesting fans stop sending romantic gifts to fictional characters
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Koei Tecmo will not be your Valentine this year, unfortunately

Elden Ring Nightreign beta invites are apparently so in demand, scalpers are already trying to resell them for hundreds of dollars
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Care for a $250 multiplayer invite?

Devil May Cry anime adaptation might have the best opening sequence in Netflix history
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Castlevania producer Adi Shankar's Devil May Cry is out this spring

Sanrio Animal Crossing successor Hello Kitty: Island Adventure gets off to a strong start on Steam, and a lot of fans are making the same 19-year-old South Park reference
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Hello Kitty: Island Adventure is now on Nintendo Switch and PC

Turn-based RPG Clair Obscur dev says all-star voice actor lineup includes people like Andy Serkis and Baldur’s Gate 3 alumni by accident: "He was like, 'Isn't that Clive from Final Fantasy?'"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Just accidentally casting some of the biggest names in games, no big deal

EA says Mass Effect 5 is now BioWare's "full focus" as it shuffles devs to other studios, with some reportedly facing layoffs following Dragon Age: The Veilguard's underperformance
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "We don’t require support from the full studio"

PlayStation says it's "evolving" its Plus subscription service to include only PS5 titles: "PS4 games will no longer be a key benefit"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News PS Plus is moving on

Palworld developer Pocketpair opened its publishing arm only one week ago, and it's already received 150 pitches: "We're determined to help as many great games get made as possible"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The first genre on its agenda: horror

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2 brings back a beloved game mode fans have been begging for, but all I care about is a practically meaningless bug fix
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Get ready for Gun Game and a better win-loss ratio

Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 stress test is here for real after its accidental early PS5 launch, but Larian asks that you please don't use photo mode for bug reports
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Keep photos of your limbless protagonist to yourself

Hogwarts Legacy gets official PC modding support in time for the wizarding RPG’s 2-year anniversary, but console players are feeling left out
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Officially deck out your PC games starting January 30

Nintendo Switch 2 fan notices musical Super Mario Bros Easter egg in reveal trailer, indicating just how badly everyone needs more details about the new console
By Ashley Bardhan published
News This sort of, kind of sounds like something, right?

The director behind one of anime's most extraordinary films manages to completely subvert my expectations with latest coming-of-age adventure: "Having a secret was really important"
By Ashley Bardhan published
Opinion Opinion | The Colors Within is out now

YouTuber reinvents the modern speedrun by chugging laxatives and shocking himself with a dog collar while playing Five Nights at Freddy's most disappointing sequel, and I can't stop watching
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You have never seen challenge runs like Mr. Wigglesworth's

After the success of Hogwarts Legacy and the failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Warner Bros. gaming boss leaves after 12 years
By Ashley Bardhan published
News David Haddad exits after a tumultuous few years

GTA 4 modders lose their YouTube channel as Take-Two seems to continue its quest to obliterate every GTA mod, but they still plan to deliver their upgraded Vice City
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Vice City: The Next-Gen Edition might escape Take-Two's wrath

Over 10 years later, Ninja Gaiden 4 is in the works with help from Nier: Automata and Bayonetta studio Platinum Games – and a Ninja Gaiden 2 remaster is out now
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Ninja Gaiden 4 looks like a worthwhile upgrade for the 37-year-old franchise

Analysts predict Switch 2 might struggle with attracting mainstream buyers for the same reason Wii U failed: "I can imagine 'normies' being a bit confused"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Oh, awesome, another portable handheld device!

Bloodborne still seems a long way from getting an official 60fps port, but fans have finally gotten PS4 emulators to deliver the remaster they’ve wanted for years
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It's not official, but it sure is Bloodborne 60fps

Sony isn’t ready to wheel out 60fps Bloodborne just yet, but it is prepared to help Dark Souls and Elden Ring dev's parent company pump out 9,000 original IPs by 2027
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Kadokawa is going into manga overload
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