Jonathan Bolding
Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
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A new limited edition of Doom comes in a box that runs Doom
By Jonathan Bolding published
News ...and includes a little Cacodemon toy that runs Doom.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was Steam Deck Verified, but now it's not
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Downgraded to "playable" over a month later.

This shooter is billing itself as 'the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play'
By Jonathan Bolding published
news Heroes of Valor will step into the decade-empty spot left by Battlefield Heroes' demise.

Atomfall hits 2 million players and 500K cups of tea drunk
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Waiter, waiter, more tea please.

The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe
By Jonathan Bolding published
news BattleTech: Gothic will have its own mini-line of miniatures and games.

You really should play Sultan's Game, a beautiful, cruel card shuffler which launched on Steam recently
By Jonathan Bolding published
news It sold over 100,000 copies in just a few days.

That game jam based on Oblivion's terrible persuasion wheel actually produced some good, weird ideas
By Jonathan Bolding published
news Spin the wheel to figure out what your gun does.

The League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, will launch this year
By Jonathan Bolding published
news A 300-card set will lay the groundwork for what Riot hopes will be a hit.

Nordhold is out now, and one of the year's most interesting tower defense games
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Send some bad monsters to Valhalla.

Cult classic Rain World has dropped a new expansion about its most mysterious slugcat yet
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Slugcat! Slugcat! Slugcat!

Satisfactory 1.1 will have autoconnecting blueprints, vertical splitters, branching hypertube networks, controllers, photo mode, and more
By Jonathan Bolding published
news The first update following Satisfactory's 1.0 release is massive and here soon.

There's now Call of Duty soap and I'm disappointed to report that none of it is called Soap's Soap
By Jonathan Bolding published
news There's literally a character named Soap. This was not hard.

Age of Mythology Retold's new Chinese pantheon expansion takes a bold stance on updating an old game: Just make good new stuff
By Jonathan Bolding published
Heaven-sent Instead of adhering to what was in an older expansion, World's Edge just decided to make something better.

Powder enthusiasts seem pretty pleased with new physics-based realistic snowmobile sim Sledders
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's a fresh, powdery snowmobile sandbox.

A beta of backyard FPS Neighbors: Suburban Warfare is out now, and the balance discussion is hysterical: nerf trash can lids and children
By Jonathan Bolding published
News "Pls nerf kevin."

Wreckfest 2 has hit early access for your car-obliterating combat racing enjoyment
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Maybe some games... should have crashes?

Monster Hunter director joined an online hunt, carted first: 'I feel bad about that'
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The Monster Hunter team posts a video message for fans post-release.

Should Age of Empires and Quake be in the 'World Video Game Hall of Fame'? You can vote for them to be inducted this year
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Voting is open for the Strong National Museum of Play's 2025 hall of fame candidates.

Man builds Monster Hunter switch axe, complete with working flamethrower, because why not
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Now all we need is a giant cosplay Rathalos...

Longtime Monster Hunter producer promoted to head of all game development at Capcom
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Ryozo Tsujimoto has been a champion of the Monster Hunter series since 2007.

Monster Hunter's food looks so tasty it's apparently driving up demand for cheese naan in Japan
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Cheese naan is in fact extremely delicious, so I'm not surprised.

I wrote one-sentence reviews of over 70 Steam demos to help you decide which to try before Next Fest ends
By Jonathan Bolding published
Demos for days I played way too many Steam Next Fest demos this week. Here's what I thought about almost all of them.

I played 83 Steam Next Fest demos and these are my top 5
By Jonathan Bolding published
Gotta try em all If you only have time to check out a few Next Fest demos, try these.
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