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

"You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it": Skyrim and Oblivion vet on Bethesda's horse armor, and how the dev "didn’t know what the hell it was doing at the time"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News He has a point

Baldur's Gate 3 dev tempts fate and taunts players as the RPG's latest patch fixes yet another easy-gold trade exploit: "Any more of these up your sleeves?"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Sorry about that

Microsoft yoinks $1 Xbox Game Pass trial ahead of new Call of Duty, just like it did before Starfield came out
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Interesting timing, Microsoft

Horror game devs team up to create the most ridiculous spiritual successor to PS1 Harry Potter games, and Steam Next Fest players are loving it
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Welcome to the world of Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate

RuneScape dev reveals Unreal Engine 5 survival game set in the MMO’s universe, accidentally blocks players from signing up due to Steam shenanigans
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The sign-up Steam ID issue has been fixed

Former Nintendo employees say the photo of Mario teasing the Switch was "very controversial" in the company: "It got memed into oblivion, and people were kind of upset"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News At least the controversy couldn't kill Mario's smile

25-year-old FPS Delta Force is back with an extraction shooter revival that's already tearing up the Steam Next Fest charts
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It's spooky good

Tekken boss says iconic ruffian Heihachi has so many "illegitimate children" he has trouble remembering them
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Heihachi, you dog

Microsoft asks devs using "competitor's products" why they aren't making games for Xbox: "You probably have a great perspective we could learn from"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News PlayStation and Nintendo, watch out

The famous Blizzard graveyard of canceled games includes a sci-fi Diablo and a Warcraft take on Helldivers
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The Overwatch developer has a ton of skeletons in the closet

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
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