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
Elden Ring is officially FromSoftware's most popular game — it outsold the developer's entire Dark Souls series by 2 million copies
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Elden Ring supremacy
As Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth finally escapes PlayStation prison, the JRPG's director says "I recommend the PC version" for the "improved lighting"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out on PC in January
Helldivers 2 director says the new Illuminate update is for the most hardcore players: "You can’t match everyone’s needs"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Casuals, watch out
PlayStation devs on Astro Bot share their GOTY acceptance with Nintendo, the king of platformers: "We want to pay tribute to them tonight"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The console wars are on pause
Splitgate 2 gets new gameplay trailer at The Game Awards, and the 4v4 portal shooter has never looked so ridiculously fun
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Splitgate 2 does not yet have an official release date
As if The Outlast Trials couldn't get any more deranged, the horror co-op game's big new update adds more tooth guns and lady who lives in the walls
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Project Breach is out now
Cyberpunk 2077 dev offers temporary beta branch so that Update 2.2 doesn’t make your mods explode
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It'll be available until January
Path of Exile 2 is dropping loot more generously, but Early Access players are still being bankrupt by the action RPG’s high respec costs: "Why am I being punished for trying out things?"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Power to the proletariat
"It seems we've missed the mark": As their Steam review score drops to 14%, Dauntless devs wade into feedback after a disastrous update that gutted progress
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Dauntless is having a very bad week
Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand devs say Baldur's Gate 3-style level caps help make games shorter, because not everybody has "time for 100-hour RPGs"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "It'd be much nicer if it was a 20 or 30-hour game"
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says that it's absolutely essential to Square Enix that his team makes Part 3 "the best experience we possibly can"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Good thing Part 2 is already so great
Forget Baldur's Gate 3, the Critical Role team are talking about creating their own video game
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "We've been talking about creating a video game since we first started playing together"
PlayStation's 30th anniversary trailer puts it nicely and praises overzealous Bloodborne fans for their "persistence"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News When will Bloodborne fans be free?
Nioh studio founder says if he wasn't in charge, he would have been fired for spending 12 years and 3 reboots making the action RPG
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It's a long path to greatness
The Planescape devs mutilated BioWare’s engine in a good way while making the legendary 1999 RPG: "We were lucky we didn't break the game"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Black Isle Studios couldn't be stopped
On the 23rd anniversary of Metal Gear Solid 2's Japanese release, Hideo Kojima pays lengthy tribute to his "favorite song" in the Metal Gear Solid series
By Ashley Bardhan published
News He can't get enough of it
Dragon Age players think Fallout creator's video about the worst RPG ever made is about The Veilguard, but he says it wasn't targeting anyone unless it "helps you make a better game"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Tim Cain knows what he's talking about
The Witcher 4 will be "better, bigger, greater" than The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077: "We don't want to go back"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "The next game we do will not be smaller, and it will not be worse"
Baldur's Gate 3 has had over 3,000 mods and 70 million mod downloads in just under 3 months, including a Larian favorite that makes enemies turn into cheese
By Ashley Bardhan published
News 'Tis the modding season
Arcane showrunner reminds fans that they "always will" listen to feedback, as long as it doesn’t overpower their vision: "At the end of the day, nobody asked for Arcane"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Christian Linke doesn't mind the criticism
Dragon Age The Veilguard player makes the number one dating mistake and pecks fan-favorite love interest’s face off with giant bird head
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Do not do this
Sparking Zero is the best-selling Dragon Ball game ever released in the US and Bandai Namco’s biggest published title outside of Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3
By Ashley Bardhan published
News This is big news for Dragon Ball
Vampire Survivors shares a ton of updates for 2025, but they're practically indecipherable on a sinfully cryptic roadmap: "Good luck working out what's next"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You'll never figure it out.
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