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

Doom Will It Run Limited Edition with Box that plays Doom
A new limited edition of Doom comes in a box that runs Doom

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News ...and includes a little Cacodemon toy that runs Doom.

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Spider-Man 2 screenshot
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was Steam Deck Verified, but now it's not

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News Downgraded to "playable" over a month later.

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Screenshot from an in-development build of Heroes of Valor
This shooter is billing itself as 'the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play'

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news Heroes of Valor will step into the decade-empty spot left by Battlefield Heroes' demise.

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Soldiers
Atomfall hits 2 million players and 500K cups of tea drunk

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News Waiter, waiter, more tea please.

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BattleTech: Gothic board game
The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe

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news BattleTech: Gothic will have its own mini-line of miniatures and games.

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Sultan's Game screenshot
You really should play Sultan's Game, a beautiful, cruel card shuffler which launched on Steam recently

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news It sold over 100,000 copies in just a few days.

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A screenshot of game jam submission Blade & Wheel. A character wielding a sword awaits input from the user interface, a "wheel" on which the words "cower, "attack," "attack," or "struggle" are arranged.
That game jam based on Oblivion's terrible persuasion wheel actually produced some good, weird ideas

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news Spin the wheel to figure out what your gun does.

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Riftbound website artwork
The League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, will launch this year

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news A 300-card set will lay the groundwork for what Riot hopes will be a hit.

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Nordhold screenshot
Nordhold is out now, and one of the year's most interesting tower defense games

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News Send some bad monsters to Valhalla.

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Rain World: The Watcher screenshot
Cult classic Rain World has dropped a new expansion about its most mysterious slugcat yet

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News Slugcat! Slugcat! Slugcat!

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Satisfactory items per minute counter on a conveyor belt with screws moving through it
Satisfactory 1.1 will have autoconnecting blueprints, vertical splitters, branching hypertube networks, controllers, photo mode, and more

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news The first update following Satisfactory's 1.0 release is massive and here soon.

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A promotional image of Call of Duty branded soap from Dr Squatch
There's now Call of Duty soap and I'm disappointed to report that none of it is called Soap's Soap

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news There's literally a character named Soap. This was not hard.

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Immortal Pillars expansion for Age of Mythology: Retold
Age of Mythology Retold's new Chinese pantheon expansion takes a bold stance on updating an old game: Just make good new stuff

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Heaven-sent Instead of adhering to what was in an older expansion, World's Edge just decided to make something better.

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A person on a snowmobile riding a track in the forest in game Sledders.
Powder enthusiasts seem pretty pleased with new physics-based realistic snowmobile sim Sledders

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News It's a fresh, powdery snowmobile sandbox.

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Neighbors Suburban Warfare screenshot a child aims a slingshot at a man from across a cul-de-sac.
A beta of backyard FPS Neighbors: Suburban Warfare is out now, and the balance discussion is hysterical: nerf trash can lids and children

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News "Pls nerf kevin."

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Screenshot from Wreckfest 2
Wreckfest 2 has hit early access for your car-obliterating combat racing enjoyment

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News Maybe some games... should have crashes?

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Alma, the handler from Monster Hunter Wilds, closes her eyes and looks a little disappointed.
Monster Hunter director joined an online hunt, carted first: 'I feel bad about that'

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News The Monster Hunter team posts a video message for fans post-release.

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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.

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A hunter with his Switch Axe in sword mode in Monster Hunter Wilds.
Man builds Monster Hunter switch axe, complete with working flamethrower, because why not

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News Now all we need is a giant cosplay Rathalos...

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Capcom producer Ryozo Tsujimoto
Longtime Monster Hunter producer promoted to head of all game development at Capcom

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News Ryozo Tsujimoto has been a champion of the Monster Hunter series since 2007.

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An image of toasted bread with dripping, melted cheese on top, from Monster Hunter Wilds.
Monster Hunter's food looks so tasty it's apparently driving up demand for cheese naan in Japan

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News Cheese naan is in fact extremely delicious, so I'm not surprised.

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Tempest Rising
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.

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Demos for days
Close up of a king with his eyes really wide
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.

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Gotta try em all
A headshot of game developer Lucas Pope, left, in black and white; alongside Sam Lake, right, in color.
Remedy's Sam Lake and Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope will receive major achievement awards in March

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News Two major contemporary developers will be honored at GDC this year.

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An image of the Wandering Waters map update to Dota 2
Dota 2 remembers water is very important, adds more, in latest map shakeup

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News Go downstream, go faster. That checks out.

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