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

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.

The best Dragon Age Origins character was nearly cut content before a writer’s pigeon trauma saved her: "The pigeons used the HVAC like some kind of sex den. Angry, ugly pigeon sex"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News What did pigeons ever do to you?

Fallout: New Vegas director took one look at the Strip on a console devkit and thought, "Oh my god, this isn’t going to run"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Good thing it did!

Sega is finally reviving the world’s first 3D fighting game franchise after leaving it in arcade purgatory for 18 years
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Virtua Fighter is coming out of retirement

Nintendo says it hasn't really changed its approach to first-party games in 39 years and that's why more people are "playing and enjoying our games"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Good job, Nintendo

Rare Charizard card worth £30,000 returned to rightful owner after alleged thief tried selling it on Facebook
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The Fire/Flying type Pokemon has been through a lot

Ex-Rockstar dev says one of GTA 5's most mysterious Easter eggs was really "just put in there to mess with people"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Former Rockstar designer Ben Hinchliffe thinks your theories need work

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
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