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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Deltarune's Tenna was first envisioned in 3D almost a decade ago in a delightfully janky prototype
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News It was to be animated via an Xbox Kinect.

The best stealth game of the year just released its source code
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News It runs on a derivative of WHAT engine?

Our favorite RPG from last year is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale
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news Metaphor: ReFantazio is a delightful RPG from the creators of the Persona series.

Exclusive: New god game Demiurgos puts you in control of a famous deity trying to outplay other gods on a cosmic tabletop version of earth
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Dei gratia It's a promising new blend of strategy and simulation from a god's-eye view.

Update: Danish ministry only ditching Microsoft Office, but Windows is staying on their PCs
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News

Here's the entire soundtrack for Europa Universalis 5 even though the grand strategy game doesn't have a release date yet
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news It's a pretty good soundtrack, too.

Survival game Once Human now has custom servers, complete with all manner of tweakable parameters
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Plus, plans for Once Human's future.

'I don't particularly think the game will be very good': The fans trying to get a never-released Chinese Borderlands MMO working are doing something so absurd that I love them for it
By Jonathan Bolding published
News "If you don't know what you're doing it can feel like trying to escape a maze blindfolded," said the project lead.

NetEase's 'first AAA singleplayer' game is Blood Message, and it looks amazing in its first trailer
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Blood Message is a historical action-adventure set in medieval China (and also an excellent name for a videogame).

Grounded 2 will have less frequent, much larger early access updates
By Jonathan Bolding published
News And some more story.

Turns out that fantasy Factorio is a pretty good idea, and if you doubt me try the MoteMancer demo
By Jonathan Bolding published
Automage Mix and match elemental motes as the raw ingredients for an interplanar factory.

Hello Games fans enter the early stages of Silksong syndrome after Light No Fire is a Summer Game Fest no-show
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's sad to see.

Five Nights At Freddy's still going strong: The latest game briefly grappled with Dune over Steam's top seller spot
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Abandoned costume workshop? Couldn't be dangerous in there.

Klei's next game will make a side-scrolling survival crafter out of Oxygen Not Included's detailed fluid and heat physics
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Oxygen Not Included by way of Noita, kind of. (Oxygen Noita Included?)

Use watery powers to explore a fantastical desert in Fading Echo
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The animation is pretty stylish, to boot.

Blind Descent is an upcoming survival game about a hidden world deep beneath the surface of Mars
By Jonathan Bolding published
News They're boasting an ecosystem that reacts to your presence.

'Dominate the Waifu Industrial Complex': There's a new 3v3 movement shooter called Waifu Tactical Force because of course there is
By Jonathan Bolding published
news The tactical movement shooter is coming to Steam next year, with an alpha starting now.

I can already tell that this co-op firefighting game is going to lead to some hilarious highlight clips
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Firefighting Simulator: Ignite pits four players against blazing buildings and rescue scenarios.

Isometric stealth game Eriksholm continues to look gorgeous in a new video
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Check out some beautifully-rendered early 1900s Scandinavian fantasy.

3 years after it was announced, here's a look at the psychedelic horror game from Spec Ops: The Line's Cory Davis and Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Sleep Awake seems perfectly primed to make you have a few nightmares.

They're making an RPG based on The Expanse, and it's got Mass Effect vibes
By Jonathan Bolding published
News The trailer's worth watching just for the spaceship combat and low-G gunfights.

D&D podcasters 3D printed a giant model of Castle Ravenloft, from Curse of Strahd, and it's truly beautiful
By Jonathan Bolding published
News We're at the endgame of insane home-builds for D&D and I am loving it.

Escape from Duckov is coming back with a new demo
By Jonathan Bolding published
News It's a singleplayer extraction shooter about ducks with guns.
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