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

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.

Civilization 7 is coming to VR on Meta Quest 3, in case you'd like a full-size Benjamin Franklin to lecture you about stuff
By Jonathan Bolding published
news This old man's a real pain in my Dutch oven.

This third-party retro UI for Discord looks like—and even runs on—Windows 98
By Jonathan Bolding published
news It's a bit surreal if you lived through the era.

Forbidden Solitaire is an upcoming horror game about a cursed CD-ROM from the spookily distant year of 1995
By Jonathan Bolding published
News "There's no reason for it to be this violent. It's f#%$ing solitaire."

Stimulation Clicker distills a decade of internet brainrot into exposure therapy that makes you stupid—plus, it's free!
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's very good and we highly recommend it.

Helldivers 2 game master Joel offers a look back on the first anniversary of the galactic war
By Jonathan Bolding published
News "That moment ... proved to us that we're on to something special with the galactic war".

Holy heck, there are a lot of strategy RPGs on PC now
By Jonathan Bolding last updated
SRPGs are back, baby Nowadays, the SRPG cup runneth over.

Here's an Elden Ring mod to give you the rad moveset of Sekiro boss Great Shinobi Owl
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Backflip off enemies, deflect hits, and disappear in a cloud of mist.

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's new project looks like nothing special, to be perfectly honest
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's an "original story-driven action-comedy adventure game set in the Absurdaverse".
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