Ashley Reed

Editor and Writer - Entertainment, Video Games, and Tech

United States of America

As a writer with years of experience in the video game industry, I'm passionate about creating content that focuses on topics I love - video games, technology and other geeky pursuits – and speaks directly to eager audiences with different experiences driving their interests. I excel at fashioning easy-to-understand and engaging content, from developer interviews to step-by-step instructions on how to upgrade a PS4 hard drive, collectively reaching hundreds of thousands of readers and users. I'm also versed in adapting my work to a specific style and tone, giving a unifying identity to a service, site or project with dozens of contributors.

In addition, experience with video production, livestreaming, and community engagement have helped me expand my reach and the value of my work. Whether the result is over a million YouTube views and many more unique user visits, or a collective of happy fans engaging with my work, I'm eager to give any project my all.

Portfolio
Extremely Roomy Pockets
2017
More Stefano and Obscura would've saved the end of The Evil Within 2

The first half of The Evil Within 2 is fantastic. That can be credited in large part to its phenomenal villain Stefano, a psychopathic photographer who sews corpses together for art and is accompanied everywhere by a stitched-up pile of limbs and camera parts named Obscura.

GamesRadar+
2016
How Final Fantasy 15 almost destroyed itself (with help from FF13)

Back in 2008, things weren't going well for Final Fantasy 13. A few short years after it was announced as the leading entry in Square-Enix's Fabula Nova Crystallis compilation, the team behind it was already struggling, thanks to creative disagreements and internal issues affecting a wide swath of Final Fantasy projects.

GamesRadar+
2016
Fire Emblem Fates is too big for one game - what you need to get the full story

You heard right: Fire Emblem Fates is getting the Pokemon Red and Blue treatment. Not that it will be full of magical beasts battling for profit and glory ( though...), but it will see a multi-part release, with Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright and Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest each telling a different story from opposite side of the same war.

Extremely Roomy Pockets
2016
The villain of Dishonored 2 is terrifyingly familiar

Last night Arkane Studios finally revealed a new trailer for Dishonored 2, full of stabbing and whales and black magic against a backdrop of the beautiful yet horrifically diseased city of Karnaca. Basically it was perfect and exactly what you'd want out of a Dishonored game.

GamesRadar+
2015
Until Dawn's focus on choice saved it from a sad and lonely death

Until Dawn is unapologetically one of the most brutal and gory games of 2015. Focused on a group of teenagers trying (and often failing) to survive a night trapped on a mountain with a psychotic killer, it perfectly captures the spirit of hammy slasher horror, never flinching from showing a character getting a meat hook jammed through their throat, or their head popped off like a champagne cork.

GamesRadar+
2015
Outrageous conspiracy theories Assassin's Creed says are true

Assassin's Creed...has tons of fun incorporating some of the world's most well known conspiracy theories into its storyline, and even more fun saying they're all completely accurate. For those not in-the-know, I have here 11 insane conspiracy theories that Assassin's Creed says are true, so that you may finally open your eyes! Just put this foil hat on first. It'll keep the CIA out of your brain.

GamesRadar+
2015
The history of the world according to Fallout

That's where we come in. If you're dying to understand why the Fallout world is the way it is (like why everything looks like it came out of the '50s), look no further than this handy timeline, breaking down the history of the world according to Fallout into easily digestible chunks.

GamesRadar+
2015
The best video game comics you could be reading now

But what if you had a starting point, a story you were already familiar with transferred into comic form? Like, say, one based on a video game? If that sounds good, then you're in luck, because game developers have long since discovered the pros of going comic-side.

GamesRadar+
2015
Final Fantasy 15's all-male cast might be exactly what gaming needs

Square Enix really wants you to know that there's a good reason Final Fantasy 15 has an all-male main cast. No really, it's cool - it makes the characters " more approachable for players" by showing "what boys do when girls aren't around", and pardon me while I gently tap my head against this wall for a second.

GamesRadar+
2015
Survival horror Summer Camp is now Friday the 13th: The Game

Gun Media's Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp was Friday the 13th in everything but name. A survival horror set in a teen-counseled summer camp called Camp Forrest Green (a wink to Friday the 13th Part VI) stalked by a psychotic killer, it couldn't scream Voorhees louder, which is exactly how its creators envisioned it.

GamesRadar+
2015
Tales from the Borderlands review

Dying is easy, comedy is hard, and a whole lot of both goes on in Tales from the Borderlands. But as difficult as comedy can be, Tales from the Borderlands pulls it off without breaking a sweat.