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.
Latest articles by Jonathan Bolding

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.

Remedy's Sam Lake and Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope will receive major achievement awards in March
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Two major contemporary developers will be honored at GDC this year.

Dota 2 remembers water is very important, adds more, in latest map shakeup
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Go downstream, go faster. That checks out.

There's a free beta on for the mech game by the World of Tanks creators
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Be a big, heroic mech and smash some nicely arranged terrain. It's good for the soul.

An autobattler designed by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield is coming in March
By Jonathan Bolding published
news Vanguard Exiles calls itself "a boardgame that can't be a boardgame."

There's gonna be a 1 vs many board game based on 2001: A Space Odyssey
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Take your turn, HAL.

Payday 3 sales dropped off hard in 2024, but Starbreeze has hope for the future
By Jonathan Bolding published
News After a year and a half of updates from the launch, Payday 3's troubles continue.

Dune: Awakening's sandworms will be their own masters: 'You won't be able to summon them at will'
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's their desert, not yours.

If you're a fan of giant robots I urge you to watch the Mecharashi cinematic trailer
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's one minute of moody, high-definition mech glory.
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