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

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.

Sure, why not, here's a guy beating Baldur's Gate 3 without a race or class at all
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Do you have any unique features? No.

Toby Fox is still working on more Deltarune, folks, game development is just complicated
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Lots of quality assurance to do before Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 get to you.

LAN Party simulates LAN parties without the LAN
By Jonathan Bolding published
news The experience of getting together to use a LAN, except it's on WAN.

Dawnfolk is a satisfying city builder puzzle game that works great on Steam Deck
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's like someone smashed Loop Hero and Dorfromantik together.

We can't have Bloodborne on PC but we can have Mudborne, a thematically similar game about breeding frogs
By Jonathan Bolding published
news And buying it will support real frogs.

Controllers beware: The much-loved and much-hated Shinobi series is being revived
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Streets of Rage 4 developer Lizardcube will release Shinobi: Art of Vengeance in August, bringing back a series that led to a lot of smashed controllers.

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run
By Jonathan Bolding published
News GHQ is a wargame—of sorts.

Ancient MMO Tibia is getting its first new class in 28 years
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Now that's what I call being careful with the game balance.

Oh hell yeah, someone's making a game about customizing and off-roading RC cars in your backyard
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Tweak, customize, and explore an open world at remote-controlled car scale.
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