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
The game where you can parry everything, nukes included, adds its "most requested mechanic": the most violent fishing mini-game on the planet
By Ashley Bardhan published
News This is not what cozy games are made of
When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Everyone wants to game on the go
Elden Ring streamer spends 20 hours dying 900 times in an attempt to beat Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss with basically 0 health or stamina
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Taking "get good" to a different level
GTA Online update destroys GTA 5’s most satisfying highways, and fans are ready to revolt
By Ashley Bardhan published
News What will they run over now?
Gorgeous new tactical RPG based on 28-year-old run and gun arcade game may be the best way to reignite a forgotten franchise
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Metal Slug Tactics is out November 5
The Sims 4 unveils its first batch of influencer-created DLC, and it’s better than anyone could have expected
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The Sims will start releasing Creator Kits in November
“Characters are sometimes depicted topless for prolonged periods of time”: Dragon Age The Veilguard’s ESRB rating deserves its own ESRB rating
By Ashley Bardhan published
News BioWare knows what it's doing
Palworld gets a taste of its own medicine in new mobile "pal-like" blatantly inspired by Pocketpair's survival game
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Pokemon's evolutionary line expands again
The biggest city-builder at Steam Next Fest is a Lovecraftian nightmare that might be the scariest colony sim ever
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Worshippers of Cthulhu is one-of-a-kind scary
After reports that an Xbox exec said "nobody cares about Banjo-Kazooie," he's correcting the record: "I absolutely know how much Banjo-Kazooie means to our fans"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The 26-year-old platformer franchise matters
After backlash and a Steam review bomb, Tekken 8 dev gives out $5 to cover controversial DLC and says it will do things differently next time
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Thanks, Bandai Namco
Riding high on the Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team reveals an original survival horror IP that looks like a fun sci-fi nightmare
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Cronos: The New Dawn will be out in 2025
As Astarion, Karlach, and Shadowheart get Funko Pops, actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular companion asks "No hot green girlfriend?"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Poor, innocent Lae’zel
Pokemon finally revives an ultra-rare Shiny that's gone virtually unseen for 14 years, but only the most dedicated Scarlet and Violet players can get it
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Shiny Meloetta is free from purgatory
A battle royale hero shooter MOBA from ex-League of Legends devs is smashing the Steam Next Fest charts
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Supervive is making it big
"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
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