Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
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”
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
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
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"
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"
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"
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"
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
News Elajjaz belongs in the Resident Evil hall of fame
This was supposed to be a chill fishing game with Animal Crossing vibes, but then hardcore players made movement sweaty and turned it into Tony Hawk’s Underground
News Webfishing is out now on Steam
Metaphor: ReFantazio has the ultimate solution to JRPG grinding, and all you need to do is cook a bunch of noodles
News Hope you're hungry
The game where you can parry everything, nukes included, adds its "most requested mechanic": the most violent fishing mini-game on the planet
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"
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
News Taking "get good" to a different level
GTA Online update destroys GTA 5’s most satisfying highways, and fans are ready to revolt
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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?"
News Poor, innocent Lae’zel
