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

Time to snipe like it's 2004: Halo Infinite just added Halo 2 throwback maps for the game's 20th anniversary, built in Forge "with the help of key Halo community members"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Halo 2 is back, baby

Stardew Valley creator reveals "secret, experimental mobile multiplayer feature" hidden behind the most famous cheat code in video game history
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The Konami Code never dies

Dragon Age: The Veilguard streamer spends over 21 hours in character creator out of extreme dedication to being sexy: “I have my priorities sorted, and they’re insane”
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Was it worth it?

Former GTA lead explains "probably the worst bug we missed" in San Andreas and why "anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News GTA may have been out for decades, but you still don't know everything there is to know about it

Borderlands 2 player who spent 9 months trying to finish the game without getting hit was beaten to the punch just hours before finally accomplishing his goal
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Now two people have completed a near-impossible challenge

BioWare dev says "maybe 20 people" left at the studio have used an old Dragon Age engine, so it's harder to remaster than Mass Effect: "Never say never, I guess"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News A Dragon Age collection might be far away

Desperate GTA 6 fans give up on predicting the elusive action-adventure game's release date through normal means, instead resort to astrology
By Ashley Bardhan published
News If the moon is over there, and the stars are over there, does that mean GTA 6 is coming out soon?

Baldur's Gate 3 devs celebrate 50 million mod downloads since Patch 7, including 10,000 renaming Withers to Bone Daddy: "Uh, glad we could facilitate that"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News He's still dead though

Skyrim veteran says "there’s not a single day that I’ve even contemplated going back" to Bethesda: "You're very much a cog in the machine"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Nate Purkeypile just wrapped up his own horror game

This Halloween-themed monster catching RPG looks like a Pokemon romhack in all the best ways, with one big twist: battles are 4v4
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Pipkin is the cutest Pokemon-like

After beating what should be the hardest Baldur's Gate 3 challenge ever, masochistic streamer raises the bar with a diabolical plan: “Honor Mode, solo, without using any consumables”
By Ashley Bardhan published
News This level of difficulty should be studied

Concord development deal reportedly rivaled The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West at $200 million, which Sony has now chucked into a big ol' furnace
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Concord was a huge loss in every sense

Dragon Age players desperate for greatswords in The Veilguard are working through the 5 stages of grief before the RPG even comes out
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Why don't you try a dagger instead?

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle won’t see Indy kill any dogs: "This is obviously a little bit different" from Wolfenstein "where the dog will explode"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Dog people, rest easy

Balatro creator added extra Jokers to the hit roguelike because someone at its publisher "mentioned something about '150 Jokers' and instead of correcting them I just made 30 more"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Could you survive without these cards?

After forming a new studio at an "apocalyptic" time for game devs, Disco Elysium writer says "this industry is finished" but "video games are not"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Summer Eternal plans to be worker and player owned

Bungie's reportedly troubled FPS Marathon breaks 18 months of silence with a vague update from its game director: "We do this all for you"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Marathon might expand its playtests in 2025

After "a month of grinding" and 123 deaths, Resident Evil 4 master completes what should be an impossible challenge
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Elajjaz belongs in the Resident Evil hall of fame

This was supposed to be a chill fishing game with Animal Crossing vibes, but then hardcore players made movement sweaty and turned it into Tony Hawk’s Underground
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Webfishing is out now on Steam

Metaphor: ReFantazio has the ultimate solution to JRPG grinding, and all you need to do is cook a bunch of noodles
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Hope you're hungry

The game where you can parry everything, nukes included, adds its "most requested mechanic": the most violent fishing mini-game on the planet
By Ashley Bardhan published
News This is not what cozy games are made of

When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Everyone wants to game on the go

Elden Ring streamer spends 20 hours dying 900 times in an attempt to beat Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss with basically 0 health or stamina
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Taking "get good" to a different level
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