iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 7h

i have to hope that living is better than Lying

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Jasmine Gould-Wilson @jazzgouldwilson.bsky.social · 8h

I am devastated that we have lost one of the most wonderfully unique and articulate writers in the whole GR+ squad. Every time I read her work I marvel at the beautiful oddity and unflinching honesty of each and every word, and you’ll not find another voice like hers. hire ashley now pls 🖤 🕷️

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Jordan Gerblick @jordangerblick.bsky.social · 8h

this is ridiculously cool

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 9h

anyway, october 1 — i made a silent film set to dollhouse ambient music about a imaginary scenario in which i've been jilted by a lying figure from silent hill 2. enjoy 🧁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZJ1...

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i'm in a toxic relationship! (with a lying figure from silent hill 2)

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

men in gaming don’t realize that no one is blameless when the culture is against women. i cried at SGF bc i was surrounded by male peers commenting on how i looked, not understanding that it made me feel just as alone as when the random guy on the street told me to lift my skirt

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Original Chungus @tronknotts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Definitely hire her. She can write anything. But you will be best off if you let her loose to apply her inventive metaphors, poetic pacing, gut punch honesty, and capacity for deep analysis to break boundaries and blow minds

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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ashley is one of the smartest and most engaging writers I've read in years. People should be giving her all the work.

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Justin Clark @justinofclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have multiple people in my life I've sent this article to who mentioned it made them cry from how much it made them feel seen. The person who wrote this deserves to make a living in games. Somebody make that happen.

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My OCD Doesn’t Want Me To Play Horror Games, But I Do It Anyway - Kotaku

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is way more than extreme cleaning, and mine doesn’t like Outlast

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

／(^o^)＼ all these compliments are so nice you’re making me want to hire myself 😭 if i haven’t told you yet, please know that your support means everything 💗 all i want is to make WEIRD, BEAUTIFUL, CONFRONTATIONALLY GIRLY video game writing because it matters to me, and i promise that won’t stop

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 29/09/2026

ashley is a wonderful person and writer. someone please give her some work!

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eric van allen @seamoosi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ashley's an incredible writer, with a natural ability to find compelling angles and personal beats to accentuate her work. this interview with Ryukishi07 on Silent Hill f is *so* good. any editor is doing themselves a favor by giving her work. www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

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Silent Hill f writer knows you don't really want to see "a happily ever after," and the game's horrific portrayal of young womanhood makes it my GOTY

Year in Review 2025 | Konami returns to Silent Hill with a steel pipe and a wedding veil

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also no one has ever or will ever write something so beautiful and vulnerable about such a terrible, terrible game as she did covering shadows of the damned. Magnificent stuff. plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-0...

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was the first piece I ever read from her! I truly cannot forget it! I remember being so blown away at how she captured what living with OCD feels like, so honest and real. You don’t see anything like this in the traditional games space!!!! Hire her now!!!! kotaku.com/ocd-horror-v...

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My OCD Doesn’t Want Me To Play Horror Games, But I Do It Anyway - Kotaku

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is way more than extreme cleaning, and mine doesn’t like Outlast

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just wanna echo everyone and say Ashley is a rare singular voice in the space, bringing so much care, craft, and energy to everything she writes. If you don’t hire her you are literally dumb. Act now or forever miss out.

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Jordan Gerblick @jordangerblick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've spent two years working side-by-side with Ashley, and I can confidently say she made GamesRadar+ a better place to work and a better website to read. I'm jealous of whoever gets to work with her next. Hire Ashley.

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Heather Wald @heatherteacup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hire Ashely for her extremely good words and invaluable voice. Ashley is truly one of the most talented writers out there, and I’ve always greatly admired her work (even before she was at GR+). I never tire of reading her insightful, passionate words, and she’s such a wonderful person to work with

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When we were both laid off at Kotaku, I always felt Ashley's god-given talent for prose (which, high-key, made me jealous) would make her a shoo-in for a full-time hire in no time. And she did! Seeing her laid off once again is just goofy. Plain and simple.

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erin @equifax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UGH!!!! you are the single best writer in this space and i have always been awed by how you manage to pull off such chaotic, inventive feats of language even in the most confined and unlikely places. i am so sorry to hear about this bullshit 🖤🖤🖤

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The best in the world. True Michael Jordan of games writing right here.

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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ashley’s a singular voice in the space whose work will undoubtedly enrich whatever site or project she’s a part of.

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please hire Ashley

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Rollin Bishop @rollinbishop.com · 29/09/2026

it has been an honor and privilege to field ashley's wild pitches and edit her even wilder copy. in a field full of stellar talent jockeying to be heard, ashley's voice remains absolutely one of a kind. to use her own words, i am fly-swatted to see her go. let our loss be your gain: hire ashley

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Austin Wood @woodwould.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hire Ashley. I'm just learning of this change while on vacation. Ashley was an invaluable part of the GamesRadar+ US news team and regularly contributed outside her byline and to other verticals. The site will be worse without her.

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ashley is one of my favorite writers and any outlet would be better for having her on its staff !!!

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CJ Melendez @cjmelendez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Any site would be lucky to have Ashley, especially the spooky ones. Cough @bloody-disgusting.com @fangoria.bsky.social @dreadcentral.bsky.social cough

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ashley is the best writer in games media and there’s no other read on this than as a devastating indictment of just HOW tenuous the state of the games journalism is today

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Emma-Jane Betts @emma-janebetts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ashley is not only amazingly talented and insightful but is a genuine joy to work with. I will never be sick of hearing her takes on horror and feminism. Any team would be lucky to have her 🖤❤️🖤

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 29/09/2026

Ashley is immensely talented and funny as hell. Hire her!!

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Oscar TK @mroscartk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ashley is genuinely one of the best to do it - great to read, fantastic to edit, and always with a unique perspective you simply can't get elsewhere.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 29/09/2026

There is no one better than Ashley at making basic-ass news and previews GENUINELY compelling to read. I do not know how she does it. The most obvious hire in the world.

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

P.S. if i don't respond to your kind message soon, it's because i'm watching saw movies back-to-back through my tears 🫀

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

michael myers is in terrible standing with his neighborhood co-op

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/09/2026

Peace, good Doll

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i bet it feels kinda suffocating to be a bug in a rug and not really that snug at all :/

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i wrote this while playing resident evil with a lightning storm outside, which matched the lightning in the game. my house was as dark as the resident evil mansion — except for the few melancholy moments where a flash would illuminate a sprinkle of dust, or a lampshade that looks like a person 💬

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

happy resident evil movie day 🐾☕️🖤 for my blog, i wrote a longish read about how i imagine resident evil zombies eating my brain like the inside of a cadbury egg: 🎠 join me in becoming a jill sandwich: plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

gorgeous work from everyone involved 🖤

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW G+RLS PODCAST: this week, i join the team in discussing women's roles in video games 💜 we had a fruitful conversation which overwhelmed me with thoughts of women both good and evil 💜 and then i shocked everyone by talking about.... oh..... bloodborne again 😢😈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkEV...

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Have women's roles in video games actually evolved? | G+RLS EP5

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i am featured in book 🥹 thank you jacob and the concept of TOTAL DARKNESS 🖤

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

bloober finally revealed project m 🐁 i think it has the potential to start a new era of nintendo-exclusive horror games... which hasn't really existed since eternal darkness 24 YEARS AGO!!!! 🦇🦇🐁 www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...

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Silent Hill 2 Remake dev's haunted new Onyx: The Dark Grip is the only Switch 2 game to make its horror exclusive to handheld mode

Bloober Team trademarked the threatening title earlier this year

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i talk about this in more detail in my one and only video essay :c www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_m...

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the REAL reason i play until dawn...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

until dawn 2 release date announced 🕯️ i'm praying it'll cure supermassive by association and take us back to popcorn horror games that entertain as much as they force you to consider and value your own survival ~~~ 🦋! www.gamesradar.com/games/surviv...

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Until Dawn 2 co-developed by Dispatch creator gets January release date and freaky new trailer with Baldur's Gate 3 star embracing his inner Ghost Adventures

We're going ghost viral

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i have been thinking about this a lot because it’s always been bad out here for women trying to review games but also seems worse than ever lol will a single woman be called on to review gta 6 at a big website??? feels impossible 🙃

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Bryan @gleszinski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was gonna make some joke about how I don’t believe that you don’t remember your birth. If anyone can recall being a writhing fetus, it’d be you. But ultimately I just enjoyed reading the piece and carried on.

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🦋 new blog 🦋 i tried to write from maria's perspective in the born from a wish DLC for silent hill 2, because we never see her arrive into existence, she just is, and i don't remember my birth either. she / i / we never asked to live with so much discomfort... plant-or-beast.net/posts/2026-0...

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

GREAT halloween costume idea for a group of ladies on mood stabilizers: maria from silent hill 2, nikki from obsession, christina aguilera at the 1999 teen choice awards

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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

no one knows me better than the monster under my bed. it came up with a really accurate estimate of my shoe size

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