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

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

Steam Next Fest's biggest city builder adds a new feature after "outright mad scientist-like" players kept trying to brute force it themselves
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The cozy Tiny Glade just got even cozier

Elden Ring masochist uses one "horrible spell" for the most tedious Shadow of the Erdtree challenge I've ever seen by rolling into bosses a zillion times
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Rolling in the deep

As Xbox shutters studios like Tango, Silent Hill creator says FromSoftware might have the "key to life" in the industry: "Not changing everything every time"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Games like Elden Ring demonstrate that well

The last Splatoon player has somehow made it to two months on the shooter’s dead servers, even as Nintendo starts removing features from the sequel
By Ashley Bardhan published
News They're not going anywhere

Tiny Glade, the biggest game ahead of Steam Next Fest, now has a Manor Lords-style exploration mode
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The castle creator has a free demo out now
Sign up to the 12DOVE Newsletter
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more