Ashley Bardhan

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Ex Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says "of course" The Duskbloods will "be great," but it and Elden Ring Nightreign present a "new challenge" for FromSoftware and boss Hidetaka Miyazaki

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Ashley Bardhan

Dark Souls developer FromSoftware may be currently working on not one, but two multiplayer games at the moment – The Duskbloods and Elden Ring Nightreign – but former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida thinks the studio might have trouble adapting to them. FromSoftware director Hidetaka Miyazaki just isn't a PvP fan, as he's said himself. "I think it's a new challenge for [FromSoftware], to design game for multiplayer," Yoshida tells Easy Allies in a recent podcast episode.
Grossest game of the year doubles as the most kitty friendly, as you can pet real-life cats amid alien gore: "There was like a casting for cats"

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Ashley Bardhan |Rollin Bishop

Cronos: The New Dawn – the first original horror IP developer Bloober is working on after its Silent Hill 2 remake – is a rancid reimagining of Soviet-era Poland, and sweet kitties apparently love feasting on the monstrous flesh it's littered with. Or something like that, based on what Cronos co-director Wojciech Piejko told GamesRadar+ during a recent interview at GDC 2025.
"We're in a post Baldur's Gate 3 world": Indie publisher says Larian proved players "are not stupid" and want "50 million copies" of intense CRPGs

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Ashley Bardhan

Ever since Baldur's Gate 3 released two eternities ago, in 2023, the video game industry has been at cold war with itself over how much the intensely successful D&D 5e adaptation has changed the landscape, if at all. But if you ask New Blood Interactive co-founder Dave Oshry, the answer is simple: everything's different after Baldur's Gate 3. "We're in, like, a post-Baldur's Gate 3 world," Oshry says on a new episode of the Quad Damage Podcast.
"We're in a post Baldur's Gate 3 world": Indie publisher says Larian proved players "are not stupid" and want "50 million copies" of intense CRPGs

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ashley Bardhan

2 hours ago”To be clear, I never wanted to end things with Billy." Christie Brinkley is opening up about her short-lived love story with Billy Joel in a new memoir, Uptown Girl, that is poised to tell all about the supermodel's personal life when it drops later this month. Writing in an exclusive excerpt shared …
New Cronos: The New Dawn trailer shows Bloober learned its lesson from Silent Hill 2 remake with nasty sci-fi combat that would make James Sunderland cry

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Ashley Bardhan

Gummy piles of monster flesh, a skinny Christmas tree, burnt-out buildings, frozen in time – this is not an antisocial shopping list, but the broken heart pieces a new trailer reveals of retrofuturist Bloober game Cronos: The New Dawn. The gameplay preview suggests sci-fi Cronos could be the Dead Space of my unpleasant dreams, rooted in familiar humanity rather than the iconic 2008 survival shooter's more clinical, dull metal spaceship.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 cut content is a pile of gold that contains what could have been my favorite combat mechanic ever

1 week ago | msn.com | Ashley Bardhan

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Elder Scrolls Online celebrates 10 years by letting you buy a genuine chunk of MMO server for the low price of $110

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Ashley Bardhan

Elder Scrolls Online is practically old enough to ride a bike without training wheels, or to be hacked into pieces and sold for scrap metal, whichever comes first – and publisher Bethesda has just decided. To commemorate the MMO's 11 years of life, Bethesda has chosen to dissemble an original Elder Scrolls Online server blade and peddle it for $110. Now available for pre-order on the Bethesda e-shop, the honeycomb sliver of RAM is paired with a gold-plated commemorative plate inside a wood frame.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 cut content is a pile of gold that contains what could have been my favorite combat mechanic ever

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Ashley Bardhan

Kingdom Come developer Warhorse Studios has, in the past, prided itself on historical accuracy to a fault, though this year's medieval sequel Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 presents itself more like sparkly historical fiction. It's a bloodstained place where knights have Hulk strength and peasants' teeth aren't rotting out of their skulls, but I wish Warhorse hadn't cut a key combat mechanic that would have made Kingdom Come 2 even more of a dark fantasy.
Ex Helldivers, WoW devs' studio CEO says AI "was supposed to vacuum my house" but "some ridiculous Silicon Valley tech bros" decided to have it make art instead

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Dustin Bailey |Ashley Bardhan

Generative AI is growing increasingly inescapable, and it's quickly wrapping around the fabric of the game industry. For Colin Cragg, the CEO leading a team including ex Helldivers and World of Warcraft developers on the horse MMO Equinox: Homecoming at Blue Scarab Entertainment, the technology has its uses, but it's creating more than a few headaches along the way.
"The entire industry is totally and completely clogged": Ex Helldivers, WoW devs' studio CEO says new MMO won't be another live service shooter for "dudes in black T-shirts and jeans," which makes it perfect

1 week ago | gamesradar.com | Ashley Bardhan

I wouldn't have ever gotten into video games had it not been for the so-called "girl games" that got me into the hobby as a child – various kinds of Barbie Armageddon taught me I – as a girl, and now a woman with an interest in platform heels – could find creative refuge in games. But Blue Scarab CEO Colin Cragg knows the industry's current churn of fire-powered hero shooters haven't recognized 2000's girls as a serious gaming demographic in years.

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Ex Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says "of course" The Duskbloods will "be great," but it and Elden Ring Nightreign present a "new challenge" for FromSoftware and boss Hidetaka Miyazaki

Grossest game of the year doubles as the most kitty friendly, as you can pet real-life cats amid alien gore: "There was like a casting for cats"

"We're in a post Baldur's Gate 3 world": Indie publisher says Larian proved players "are not stupid" and want "50 million copies" of intense CRPGs

"We're in a post Baldur's Gate 3 world": Indie publisher says Larian proved players "are not stupid" and want "50 million copies" of intense CRPGs

New Cronos: The New Dawn trailer shows Bloober learned its lesson from Silent Hill 2 remake with nasty sci-fi combat that would make James Sunderland cry

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 cut content is a pile of gold that contains what could have been my favorite combat mechanic ever

Elder Scrolls Online celebrates 10 years by letting you buy a genuine chunk of MMO server for the low price of $110

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 cut content is a pile of gold that contains what could have been my favorite combat mechanic ever

Ex Helldivers, WoW devs' studio CEO says AI "was supposed to vacuum my house" but "some ridiculous Silicon Valley tech bros" decided to have it make art instead

"The entire industry is totally and completely clogged": Ex Helldivers, WoW devs' studio CEO says new MMO won't be another live service shooter for "dudes in black T-shirts and jeans," which makes it perfect

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