Jonathan Bolding

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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

An image of a faux Windows 98 desktop littered with polygonal objects attacking a mouse cursor from game Desktop Survivors 98.
Desktop Survivors 98 is an action roguelike that moves at the speed of your mouse, which is to say pretty fast

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Screenshot from Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Open world, first-person RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is out now with a nice helping of dark fantasy to explore

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News A nice break from all those high fantasy ones you've played.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows Twitch Drops - An upper-body shot of Yasuke standing in a battlefield at night, lit by a fire.
Sure, why not, the next Dead by Daylight crossover is with Assassin's Creed Shadows

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News I guess the Assassins are good at surviving?

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People with weapons and armor in the post apocalypse
'More darts, more farts': Rust dev makes 'fart darts' for hack week, and you can probably guess what they do

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News Will the 'stackable flatulence dart' make it into Rust? We can only hope.

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A red-and-blue tinged alien desert landscape with a vehicle racing through, in an isometric view, from game ADRIFT
This aggressively vaporwave offroad driving game by a car mechanic turned solo dev just got a Steam demo

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news Scout out routes to quickly move a volatile cargo from one place to another.

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Gollum
Wait, there's a Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum coming in 2027?

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news By Andy Serkis? From actual Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens?

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Two players together painting walls in House Flipper 2
House Flipper 2 is having a free weekend, and just got co-op

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News The free co-op DLC works cross-platform between Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation.

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Gothic 1 Remake screenshot
The Gothic 1 Remake demo has been updated based on fan feedback

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News "More than 15,000 players" provided feedback on the original Gothic 1 Remake demo, informing a new version.

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Pre-release screenshot of Killing Floor 3
Killing Floor 3's new release date is late July

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News After a delay from the planned March release.

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One of Repo's player characters, resembling a yellow pedal bin with googly eyes, encounters a skeletal, open mouthed face with glowing yellow eyes.
REPO devs are making that new Overcharge mechanic kick in later on—alongside other difficulty scaling

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A screenshot of strategy game Anoxia Station, with a dark palette and Giger-esque art.
A unique horror strategy game about drilling for oil released on Steam last week

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News Anoxia Station is a harrowing indie game with a distinct aesthetic.

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Risk of Rain 2
There's another Risk of Rain 2 expansion on the way

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NEWS A year after the rather disastrous last one, now fixed.

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An image of a purple witch's face from V Rising Invaders of Oakveil
V Rising is doing big numbers on Steam after its recent update, plus it's 50% off

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News The year-old vampire survival game has surged in popularity thanks to a big update and sale.

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diplomacy is not an option
There's now a free 'shareware' version of horde-battling RTS Diplomacy is Not an Option

By Jonathan Bolding Published

news Take on thousands of medieval soldiers in a free demo of Diplomacy is Not an Option.

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A preview image for World of Warcraft: The War Within Legacy of Arathor, showing the Arathi Highlands zone
After 2 decades of snacking, a new World of Warcraft spell renders vendor food partly obsolete

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News How will NPCs make a living now?

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REPO screenshot detail
The first big REPO update is available to test

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Surprise! But the good kind, not the jumpscare horror kind.

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This image is of Cartoonish red-hatted gnomes with angry expressions holding weapons as they face d own attacking, green goblins.
Here's a tower defense about little bloodthirsty gnomes in little red hats

By Jonathan Bolding Published

news Try the demo to see some clever ideas about the tower defense format.

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An image of a woman with horns covered in jewels, holding a purple flower with glowing runes to her face.
V Rising's big free content update introduces a cursed, poisoned forest this week

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A green and red 1930s steam train in videogame Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Steam trains and ships are coming to city builder Workers & Resources as a new DLC rolls the start date back to 1930

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An image of the Ubisoft Chroma tool for colorblind game development in action, superimposed over a World War 2 fighter plane videogame.
Ubisoft has made its colorblindness simulation tool available to any game developer for free

By Jonathan Bolding Published

news A win for gaming accessibility.

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A screenshot from puzzle platformer Bionic Bay
Teleport, alter gravity, and survive on the run in puzzle platformer Bionic Bay

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Full of beautiful pixels and probably perfect for speedrunners.

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Once promising developer Tequila Works is auctioning off the rights to its games, including 4 still in development

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News The developer of Rime and Gylt is being split up and sold in parts.

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A closeup of an eye with a rainbow.
Scientists claim they've seen a 'jaw-dropping' new color, but you can only experience it by shooting lasers directly into your eyes

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News The specifics of the claim are contested, but the ability to precisely stimulate the retina with lasers is cool whether or not it's really a 'new color.'

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An assembled group of adventurers posing for a photo in Baldur's Gate 3.
Don't worry, the fan-favorite Baldur's Gate 3 bug that turns character portraits into moody glamor shots wasn't fixed in the final patch

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Close call for the dedicated community.

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As promising RTS Stormgate nears 1.0, the 'entire narrative structure of the campaign' has been rewritten, says Frost Giant

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news It'll completely replace the currently available campaign.

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