Last week we hosted a discussion panel at the @royalsoced.bsky.social Curious Festival. Our brilliant speakers (incl. @chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social) explored history & fantasy in games & media. Find the recording here if you missed it! www.historicalgames.net/recording-un...

This event is happening on Wednesday! I think there's still time to book a place for either in person or to attend online and watch some very smart people (and me) talk about history and fantasy in games and media! 🗃️

🧵 Next month, Dr @enwright.bsky.social is co-running and chairing a panel with the @historygamesnet.bsky.social and the Imperial War Museums Institute as part of the @royalsoced.bsky.social's Curious Festival.

If you missed our Gender panel event on Tuesday, you can now watch the recording of this fantastic discussion here via our Youtube Channel! Featuring @verysrsgames.com @katexe.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social & @ide4fix.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...

If you missed our Gender panel event on Tuesday, you can now watch the recording of this fantastic discussion here via our Youtube Channel! Featuring @verysrsgames.com @katexe.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social & @ide4fix.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...

I appreciated being able to play a historical character who shouts “stick it where the sun don’t shine you bitter old sow!” Hob’s Barrow is the best.

Fantastic discussion of gender and historical games with @leandrowallace.bsky.social , @verysrsgames.com and @tesswatty.bsky.social this afternoon, thanks very much to @historygamesnet.bsky.social for hosting us and everyone who came and participated!

New blog post! Our final panelist for this afternoon's Gender theme, Leandro Wallace reflects on how we think about and engage with gendered play spaces in and around video games, and what we can do to create welcoming and diverse ones: www.historicalgames.net/what-we-play/

Last call for our exciting online panel discussion with experts on history, games and gender! 16:00 UK time >>today<<.

Apropos of absolutely, positively nothing going on in the #indiedev world right now, I’ll be joining a @historygamesnet.bsky.social panel tomorrow (along with some much smarter people than me) to chat about gender and historical games. Do sign up and join us!

New post! Ahead of tomorrow’s panel Andreas Kjeldsen (@verysrsgames.com) discusses forthcoming comedic narrative adventure The Knight & the Maiden, where players solve puzzles to unfold the story of a noblewoman’s quest (& her many gendered disguises): www.historicalgames.net/playing-with...

This is tomorrow! Featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social, @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social of @verysrsgames.com, and Leandro Wallace. Still a few tickets left! #gamestudies #historygames #gamingthepast

I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!

New on the HGN blog: Gender panel guest speaker @katexe.bsky.social explores the widespread lack of engagement with “women’s histories” in historical video games, & discusses some examples that do represent women’s stories more meaningfully: www.historicalgames.net/womens-histo...

One week to go until our Gender discussion panel! Find out more & sign up here 👇 www.historicalgames.net/gender/

One week to go until our Gender discussion panel! Find out more & sign up here 👇 www.historicalgames.net/gender/

We've got a bonus discussion panel event coming up September 10th! In collaboration with the IWM Institute, we're hosting this brilliant lineup of speakers for a hybrid discussion, as part of @royalsoced.bsky.social Curious 2025 Read more and register here! www.historicalgames.net/rse-curious-...

This story of language colonialism is an important one, and I'm glad that @fluxogames.bsky.social chose to explore it in a video game format. Looking forward to the release.

The HGN team recently chatted with Rytis Jadzevicius of @fluxogames.bsky.social about their upcoming game, Book Smugglers. A decision-driven, point-and-click adventure set in 19thC Lithuania, the game blends resource management with historical storytelling: www.historicalgames.net/interview-wi...

We are happy to announce a further guest for our event on 29 July: Leandro Wallace! Sadly, Leandro isn't here on Bluesky, but you can find out more about him, and about our other amazing panellists, on our event page: www.historicalgames.net/gender/

The HGN team recently chatted with Rytis Jadzevicius of @fluxogames.bsky.social about their upcoming game, Book Smugglers. A decision-driven, point-and-click adventure set in 19thC Lithuania, the game blends resource management with historical storytelling: www.historicalgames.net/interview-wi...

If I do say so myself, a brilliant lineup of speakers to chat about video games, fantasy, history and conflict in Edinburgh this September! Online and in person (and free!!) 👇🎮 @historygamesnet.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

If you're enjoying our Gender theme content, sign up for our panel discussion on 29 July, where @tesswatty.bsky.social, @katexe.bsky.social and @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social will discuss gender in/and historical games in more detail. Tickets at: buytickets.at/historicalga...

Should be a great discussion, come along!

New this week on the HGN blog, Marcus Jensen reflects on Elden's Ring's explorations of gender through the ideas of medieval alchemy. Enjoy! www.historicalgames.net/let-us-be-sh... #gamestudies #historygames

New this week on the HGN blog, Marcus Jensen reflects on Elden's Ring's explorations of gender through the ideas of medieval alchemy. Enjoy! www.historicalgames.net/let-us-be-sh... #gamestudies #historygames

CFP Hybrid Symposium: The UK Tabletop Role-Playing Game Scene – Histories, Cultures, and Legacies - 16th September, @coegamecult.bsky.social Tampere University, Finland (and online) Full details in attachments. #ttrpg #boardgames #wargames #minatures #gamebooks #videogames #history #gamestudies

We’re excited to announce that the online panel discussion for our Gender theme will take place on 29 July, 16:00-17:30 UK time, featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social (chair), @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social and a third, mystery panellist. Tickets at buytickets.at/historicalga....

The next contribution to our Gender theme is out! Regina Seiwald’s new video, Hidden Architects, explores the history of women in the UK games industry, from 1970-2000. You can find it here: www.historicalgames.net/hidden-archi... #gamestudies #historygames

We’re excited to announce that the online panel discussion for our Gender theme will take place on 29 July, 16:00-17:30 UK time, featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social (chair), @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social and a third, mystery panellist. Tickets at buytickets.at/historicalga....

Today on the HGN blog: Katie Vernon (@katievernon.bsky.social) explores the gendered representation of combat professions in medievalist video games, exploring the “use of arms and armour to construct the bodily identity of those involved in combat roles.” www.historicalgames.net/queer-ying-g...

New post on the blog! Rob Sherman writes about A Master Betrayed! - a set of physical and digital interactive works for the East Looe Old Gaol Museum in Cornwall, UK. The post includes links to explore the project yourself at home: www.historicalgames.net/a-master-bet...

New update to the Exhibit:Play Virtual Museum Collection More Dig Deeper links - Articles, videos, and research from @historygamesnet.bsky.social and We Are Museums. exhibitplay.com/virtual-muse...

If you missed the livestream of the playtest of Which Witch? a few weeks ago, you can now catch up here (via the HGN blog and YouTube channel), alongside some reflections from host @tesswatty.bsky.social : www.historicalgames.net/recording-wh...

Absolutely delighted that the first episode of the podcast I’ve been making with Ubisoft and HistoryHit is now out wherever you get your podcasts! We discuss creating Victorian London in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, featuring an interview with the lead writer ✍️ open.spotify.com/episode/0kTv...

Today’s the day for our special guest livestream of Which Witch? (!) 👇

Exciting HGN-Gender Theme News! On May 28th, our guest convenor @tesswatty.bsky.social will be livestreaming a play test of a new table top role playing game - World Weaver: Which Witch? - alongside a fantastic lineup of fellow researchers. Full details here: www.historicalgames.net/livestream-e...

Exciting HGN-Gender Theme News! On May 28th, our guest convenor @tesswatty.bsky.social will be livestreaming a play test of a new table top role playing game - World Weaver: Which Witch? - alongside a fantastic lineup of fellow researchers. Full details here: www.historicalgames.net/livestream-e...

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!

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.

You can now register for the Mythological Game Studies Conference (22-24 May, online)! We'll have around 30 presentations on mythology & games, a dev roundtable, and more. Head over to mythgamescon.wordpress.com for the conference schedule and abstracts! @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social #MythGames2025

Incidentally if you've been enjoying the conversation about gender & protagonists in historical games this week, then get involved with the next HGN quarterly theme on gender! More information coming very shortly, but you can already start planning your own contributions.

We are excited to announce our next HGN quarterly theme: Gender! Guest-chaired/convened by Dr Tess Watterson, the theme will accept contributions from this very moment until 30 June 2025. More details here: www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con... #gamingthepast #historicalgames #skystorians

This was a ton of fun to do! Go check it out :)

If you missed our Medievalism panel a few weeks back, you can now watch the recording on our YouTube channel, featuring @robehoughton.bsky.social @jubalbarca.bsky.social @blairapgar.bsky.social & Katie Newell! 📺 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1O... #gamingthepast #historicalgames

New today on the blog! Continuing the Medievalism theme Johansen Quijano @quijanophd.bsky.social explores Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War (2007), how the game integrates fantastical elements within a broadly historical framework & its overall "authenticity" www.historicalgames.net/medievalism-...

Today's the day, history and games fans! This afternoon, our brilliant lineup of speakers will be exploring medievalism and/in games. Come join us later! You can register here: buytickets.at/historicalga... In this thread, you'll also find a roundup of all our speaker's posts for the HGN blog👇:

Completing the lineup of content from our Medievalism panelists, in today's post Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social explores the reuse and reinterpretation of historical architecture, & how the practice connects to memory&power in The Witcher 3 www.historicalgames.net/echoing-the-... #gamingthepast

New post! Katie Newell explores Hampshire Cultural Trust's partnership w/ @ubisoft.com on 878AD: an immersive living history experience that combines elements of AC:Valhalla & Discovery Tour: Viking Age, live actors & artifacts www.historicalgames.net/878ad-immers... #gamingthepast #assassinscreed

This is next week! Really looking forward to the discussion.