Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
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"
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"
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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)
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"
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
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
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
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"
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
News They're not going anywhere
Tiny Glade, the biggest game ahead of Steam Next Fest, now has a Manor Lords-style exploration mode
News The castle creator has a free demo out now
Everyone wanted this popular tactical RPG to have a dating system, but its developer sadly admits that “my team members have no experience with it, even in real life”
News Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children is a great XCOM imitator anyway
Original GoldenEye and Perfect Dark composer “would’ve loved” to work on the reboot, but the studio “chose someone else”
News The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics are revisiting Perfect Dark after nearly 20 years
Helldivers 2 dev teases a massive patch with over 100 changes and fixes, including Super Samples for level 6 missions and visible supply lines
News The co-op third person shooter is only getting better
Hideo Kojima says he’s been thinking about monkey action-RPG Black Myth: Wukong since it was revealed 4 years ago: “Finally, its release has been confirmed”
News Black Myth: Wukong will release on PC and PS5 this year
Blumhouse Games' debut project Fear the Spotlight seems like it could be the unpredictable survival horror/cozy game mash-up of my dreams
News The 90s inspired narrative game will land on all platforms later this year
