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

Factorio's expansion is setting record high player counts yet again so I'm expecting the world's IT infrastructure to collapse and innovation to stagnate any day now
By Jonathan Bolding published
News This has to be a statistically significant portion of the world's engineers, admins, and coders.

Helldivers 2 gave players a deliberately awful, crusty rifle from 1903 but they love it because they can bayonet charge bugs like sci-fi Waterloo
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The developers at Arrowhead are up to their old tricks.

ColdRidge, the game about cowboys doing 4x-style exploration, hits release
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's made by two Amplitude vets who worked on the Endless series.

Gear up to explore some sky whales, build a few towns when survival crafter Towers of Aghasba releases next month
By Jonathan Bolding published
News "Nurture withered lands into vibrant ecosystems and flex your creativity" alongside some friends.

Weird aesthetics abound in point-and-click cosmic gothic Blood on the Thames
By Jonathan Bolding published
News "Find clues, interrogate suspects, and turn over every stone to learn the truth behind your husband's death."

Build and automate little terraforming factories in open world survival game Eden Crafters
By Jonathan Bolding published
News One of its big features is a malleable voxel landscape for you to shape.

Here's an adorable, cozy little multiplayer chatroom fishing game
By Jonathan Bolding published
News In Webfishing, you "relax and fish (on the web!)".

PSA: Silent Hill 2 remake has a soft lock glitch at the end of Brookhaven Hospital
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Fans are spreading the word.

There's going to be a Smurfs tabletop roleplaying game which is either an incredible or horrible idea
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Jury's still out.

The final trailer for Factorio: Space Age teases some sick looking planetary adventures
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Compared to the 2016 trailer it may as well be Factorio 2.

Mechwarrior 5: Clans review: The best that handling a BattleMech has ever felt
By Jonathan Bolding published
CLASH OF CLANS The venerable mech sim innovates with Mechwarrior 5: Clans.

Check out the micro-strategic base defense action of Thronefall
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's now out of early access.

Incredibly, you can now play Teardown in third person
By Jonathan Bolding published
News A huge, surprising update.

Y2K beat em up Star Wars: Episode 1 - Jedi Power Battles is back for some inexplicable reason
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Of all the games to get a re-release...

Starship Troopers: Extermination brings its chaotic 16-person bug fights to a 1.0 release
By Jonathan Bolding published
News There are piles and piles of persistent bug corpses to enjoy.

Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution tosses mechs into the French Revolution, but doesn't toss out the history
By Jonathan Bolding published
Mobile Suit Jacobin It's the French Revolution, but with mechs (but definitely still the French Revolution).

The Case of the Golden Idol has done so well that it's getting a free definitive edition upgrade
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The Case of the Golden Idol Redux has two years of improvements and overhauls.

Grunn is a very normal gardening game that is not a horror game at all
By Jonathan Bolding published
News No horror here, no sir.

Survival hit The Planet Crafter terraforms a whole new world in its first DLC
By Jonathan Bolding published
News One of Steam's best-reviewed survival craft games gets better.

Here's a charity bundle with a ton of World of Darkness tabletop RPG books
By Jonathan Bolding published
News ...and board games, if you're in the US and Canada and Australia and New Zealand.

The team that made Minecraft console edition is now making their own blocky builder
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Reforj uses a new proprietary engine.

Strategic robot carnage intensifies as autobattler Mechabellum hits its 1.0 release
By Jonathan Bolding published
news The full release brings a ranking system and competitive seasons.

Monster Hunter fans are excited because a big farting ape is returning for Monster Hunter Wilds
By Jonathan Bolding published
news That is not an exaggeration.
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