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
Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand devs say Baldur's Gate 3-style level caps help make games shorter, because not everybody has "time for 100-hour RPGs"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "It'd be much nicer if it was a 20 or 30-hour game"
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says that it's absolutely essential to Square Enix that his team makes Part 3 "the best experience we possibly can"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Good thing Part 2 is already so great
Forget Baldur's Gate 3, the Critical Role team are talking about creating their own video game
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "We've been talking about creating a video game since we first started playing together"
PlayStation's 30th anniversary trailer puts it nicely and praises overzealous Bloodborne fans for their "persistence"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News When will Bloodborne fans be free?
Nioh studio founder says if he wasn't in charge, he would have been fired for spending 12 years and 3 reboots making the action RPG
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It's a long path to greatness
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?
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