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
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
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
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