For those who enjoy ebooks on Kindle, it seems that 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' is *massively* discounted today down to $1.99 in the US and £7.99 in the UK. Which feels like a pretty good deal really. US: www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Ri... UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Ri...

Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis: www.historicalgames.net/students-his...

I'm delighted to be part of this volume with a plethora of awesome people. The immediate paperback edition is an additional nice touch.

A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Temos o prazer de anunciar nossa sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital, organizado pelo @archarise.bsky.social Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição! #historygames #medievalsky

We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social. If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you! #medievalsky

Anyone interested in forming a virtual co-working/writing group of humanists without current institutional affiliation/independent scholars? I can't be the only one desperately missing both community and time on my calendar for my "side projects"! #medievalsky #dh #bookhistory #humanities

www.medievalitas.com/post/medieva... @medievalists.bsky.social

Apply to be on season 5! Details available on our website. 🩷

There's still a couple of weeks left to get your abstracts in for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social strand next year! We how to see a lot of you there. Deadline 17 September.

"This book is a must-read for both medievalists and gamers." - @medievalists.bsky.social The Middle Ages in Computer Games by @robehoughton.bsky.social offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/XnzZx0z #medievalsky

🚨 PUBLIC BETA NOW OPEN 🚨 You can play it right now on Steam 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/2275300/... If you're into 4X games and/or prehistory, this is for you 🔥🏺 Super excited to hear your feedback! #gamedev #indiegame 🎮

There's another very kind review of The Middle Ages in Computer Games out on @gamevironments.bsky.social from @markusmindrebo.bsky.social. There's also a bunch of important articles on peripheral religions in games in this issue which are well worth a look. doi.org/10.48783/gam...

The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

If you're still on the fence about the book, Jacob Abell has written a good summary and very kind review of 'The Middle Ages in Computer Games' over at Acta Ludologica: actaludologica.com/wp-content/u...

Practicas da Historia has an important CfP out on the political instrumentalisation of History which has a lot of scope for work on medievalism and/or games. As always, they accept papers in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French. Abstract deadline 17 Sep. praticasdahistoria.pt/radical-hist...

We’re delighted to be returning to the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds next week. We’ve got 20 papers in person and online spread over two days of the event, alongside a roundtable on medievalist games outside the Anglophone world.

We're at the Middle Ages in the Modern World conference this week. Author Robert Houghton stopped by or stand to say hello! Find out more about his book "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" buff.ly/B81ugFy #Medievalism @themamoconf.bsky.social‬ #MAMO25

If any of you #archaeogaming folk have consulted on a video game, please give a shout/skeet to @julielebaron.bsky.social. She’s writing a cover story for Canard PC on archaeology and video games and would like to talk to archaeologists/historians who have helped gamedevs.

There's a very thorough and generous review of my book The Middle Ages in Computer Games, written by @bretonjustine.bsky.social, over on @modernmedieval.bsky.social. It's lurking amongst loads of similarly detailed reviews (mainly in French): modmed.hypotheses.org/5806

We are excited to add the event 'Playtesting the Middle Ages' to our MAMO roster, showcasing a selection of board games at various stages of development created by MAMO participants - OverPower (Robin Kessler), Galar (Vinicius Marino Carvalho) and Canossa (Robert Houghton). Tuesday 24 June 3-4:30pm.

They find ways to talk about indigenous language rights and #raciolinguistic ideologies through ludic toponymy, and on balance they emerge as anti-imperialist thinkers who are savvy about the silences of Civ, and struggle against them. You'll have to read (OA) for more...! buff.ly/PiQVW50

Excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at MAMO Conference 2025 next Tuesday, 24 June! Our paper “Elastic Histories: Time and Player Interaction in Medieval-Themed Games” dives into how games bend historical timelines to shape player experience. See you there! ⚔️🎮 #MAMOmonth #GameStudies

That’s really all for this year! Thank you for joining #MAMG25, whether as speakers, participants, or both! The conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean you cannot go forward with reading all the awesome papers that have been delivered this year, and with asking more questions to their authors!

If you've not been reading/watching the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference this week then: 1) Where have you been? 2) An awesome second keynote is about to start 3) You can catch up with all the papers here: middleagesinmoderngames.net

Time for #MAMG25 last Keynote Lecture: William Chen will talk to us about the power of modding and the possibilities it offers with his paper ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Join us in 10 minutes!

The final day of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference has just begun - you can catch up with any papers you've missed from the last two days over on the conference site:

The third and final day of #MAMG25 is about to begin! Head over to our website to check out the programme, and read two days of great papers, and our first panel for today, Fantasy Medievalism in The Witcher, will start in just 10 minutes at 10am (UTC+1)! middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

That’s it for our Game Design session and the first day of the Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! Thanks very much to @booksoflaw, Baykar Demir, Jessie Contour and Kelcey Gray. Join us tomorrow from 1000 (UTC+1) for a full day of papers.

@robehoughton.bsky.social entrevistou a equipe do jogo Fields of Glory Kingdoms: Rajas and Tribes acerca de suas escolhas históricas. Texto disponível na íntegra: #MAMG25

Stevan Anastasoff has just delivered an awesome keynote on designing medievalist games outside of the Western RPG framework over at MAMG25. It's well worth a look if you're doing anything with games and/or medievalism and the comments section is still open for questions.

The first keynote of MAMG 2025 is now live! Stevan Anastasoff is presenting on ‘Playing with the Past: Cultural Integrity in Narrative Gaming’ right this moment. Find it on the conference website: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=674

We're almost live! come and join us for 3 days of papers on the Middle Ages in Modern Games!

Our Asynchronous Conference is starting in less than an hour! Come and join us for three days of papers about all aspects of the Middle Ages and Medievalism in games of all sorts!

For any fans of #FWW allied relations or the portrayal of the conflict in computer games, the ebook versions of both my @springer1842.bsky.social books are on sale for £18.99! 🗃️ link.springer.com/search?query...

The Middle Ages in Modern Games is back in a couple of weeks! It's a really exciting line up this year - and it's still completely free to participate.

The sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference on the themes Globalities and Regionalities will take place from 4 to 6 June. The papers (written and video format) will be accessible on our website middleagesinmoderngames.net We hope you can join us!

A MAMO update! The video game developer Slitherine will join us for a gaming showcase of Field of Glory: Kingdoms - Rajas and Tribes. This exciting showcase is part of our Middle Ages in Modern Games thread, organised by @robehoughton.bsky.social and @vinicius-marino.bsky.social

It was a great privilege to attend Jinty Nelson's memorial event this afternoon, organised by @kingshistory.bsky.social. Speakers reflected on Jinty as a teacher, researcher, mentor, collaborator, friend, colleague, and defender and promoter of the historical discipline and profession 1/2

Endspurt! Es ist noch Zeit sich auf unseren CfP "Let's Play History - Geschichtskultur im Spamnungsfeld von Gaming und Content Creation" zu bewerben! Wir diskutieren mit Creatorn, Wissenschaftler*innen und Pädagog*innen über historische Games, Streams und neue digitale Geschichtskultur.

In this week's “From the Archives”, I spotlight an emerging sub-genre where video games meet world history. #GamingThePast #GameStudies #Games4Ed

By popular demand, the Call For Papers for this year's Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference has been extended to Monday 12 May. Contact midagesmodgames<at>gmail.com with your titles and abstracts.

Tickets are now available for the hybrid book launch of 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes'. Huge thanks to @racheljwillie.bsky.social for agreeing to do a Q/A with me 😊 Do come along to find out more about this fascinating field yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda...

This is a great opportunity I had the chance to participate in previously. If you're in the games field with an interest in the middle ages, this will get your work in front of a lot of people. 👍

If you're working on the Middle Ages in digital or analogue games of any sort then you won't want to miss this CfP. The event is completely free and completely remote and a great place to pitch work in progress to a large and diverse audience.

It's the final day of our Call for Papers for this year's Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! Send in your abstracts to midagesmodgames<at>gmail.com to join us in June!

Listen to today's show and share your score in our cartoon trivia game and we will mail you #HoFCast stickers! You'll also hear us recap our last round of shows with fantastic guests like @coldwarhost.bsky.social, @drsepinwall.bsky.social, @mattalt.bsky.social, @robehoughton.bsky.social, and more!!!

The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism by @robehoughton.bsky.social Hosted by @gamestudies.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-middle-a... #middleages #skystorians #booksky

Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games edited by @robehoughton.bsky.social addresses the many ways in which different formats and genre of games represent the middle ages, from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin’s Creed. Now in paperback! 📙 bit.ly/43UiOrX