Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
After 20 years stuck in Japan on the GBA, Nintendo revives legendary F-Zero game and adds it to Switch Online
By Ashley Bardhan published
News F-Zero Climax is now easier to play than ever
Final Fantasy 16 went all-in on action, so modders are defying Square Enix by cranking up the RPG elements the series is known for
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It's as cool as you think
Moo Deng is welcome everywhere, especially Helldivers 2: "Protection Order for pygmy hippos implemented" by the one and only General Brasch
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The tiny hippo is safe in the Galactic War
Monster Hunter Wilds director casually reveals that you can bait a giant lightning wyvern to help you "round up whole herds" of weaker monsters
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You will become the dragon master
A manga legend's forgotten series got translated into English for the first time in 26 years, and it's everything I love about paranormal romance
By Ashley Bardhan published
Opinion Last Quarter by Ai Yazawa is finally getting an English release
Hi-Fi Rush 2 was already 6 months into development when Xbox shut down Tango Gameworks
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Why, Xbox, why?
YouTuber figures out how to run Valve’s Deadlock on PS4, and it’s completely worthless: “I’m scared to even move the mouse”
By Ashley Bardhan published
News I hope you like low resolution
“At least your load times are great”: Dragon Age The Veilguard director showed the game to EA’s CEO only to immediately “get walloped right off the edge and down into a pit and die”
By Ashley Bardhan published
news Happens to the best of us
Helldivers 2 player pleads for help after a bot tank eats a 500kg bomb like it's nothing – accidentally summoning the creative director, who says: "Agree, that should be bye-bye"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It's a monster
Risk of Rain 2 co-creator says "don't do that" as one fan gets the roguelike sequel running on Nintendo 3DS
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The 2019 shooter is too powerful for the little 3DS
As Windows bug stalls global flights and hospitals with blue screen of death, Warframe dev thinks the timing for “our Y2K-themed demo is a little too on the nose"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Taking nostalgia too far
After lending his skills to mega mod Fallout London, Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon says he wants to do "Bethesda stuff – I love Fallout, man"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News I'm sure Astarion could handle nuclear apocalypse
Dev behind some of the best retro throwbacks on Switch turns an April Fools joke into a gorgeous Zelda-like with ’90s anime vibes
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Divine Dynamo Flamefrit will be out on all platforms
CDPR vet reflects on a classic RPG problem: The stats-over-fashion "clown meta" in Cyberpunk 2077, which lots of players hated but almost nobody knew how to fix
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It had to exist
After 22 years, the remastered version of a cult classic Game Boy Advance JRPG just appeared on Steam with a bunch of user-friendly updates
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Now's your chance to play Riviera: The Promised Land
World of Warcraft and other MMO veterans form new studio to make something that combines "cozy escapism and true crime"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The Swedish developer is working on a MMORPG
“If the sales don’t stagnate, we can actually live off of this”: Dev of open-world horror game says “lifelong dream” may come true after promising early access launch
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Envelope is out now on Steam
"We didn’t make the game of our dreams": Splitgate 2 is a AAA FPS built to "last a decade or more" using everything the first FPS couldn't be, all in Unreal Engine 5
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Back and better than ever
Hideo Kojima says it was even harder to explain his solar-powered vampire game than Metal Gear - and ironically it was raining on release day 21 years ago
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Boktai was ahead of its time
Sony apparently can’t stop leaking Helldivers 2 updates: new Warbond Freedom's Flame with "fiery weapons" and "cool capes" spotted on PS5
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Here we go again
Elden Ring investigator bravely tries to explain Shadow of the Erdtree’s little wormy guys, finds little wormy legs we weren’t supposed to see (which I need you to see)
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You're not ready for this
Sprawling survival game Light No Fire is "crazy ambitious," says No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray, but it's part of an exciting trend: "It's a lot for a small team"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News No Man's Sky just got a huge free update
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 dev confirms major leak spoiling "many of the surprises we worked to keep secret," but says the build is almost a year old
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Space Marine 2 will be out soon, anyway
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