Overview of all pages with the tag #video games

History Made Fun

A post by a self-confessed history-phobic student who took a new look at her most dreaded subject a decade later

Ningyang Chen 30 January 2021 (last modified 3 March 2021)

Guest author Ningyang Chen discusses how video games helped redeem the study of history in her eyes... [Read More]

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Video Games: Rewriting History in the Public Mind?

Wenqing Peng 21 May 2020 (last modified 4 April 2021)

In our first guest post, Wenqing Peng reflects on the intersection of history, video games and Chinese game shows... [Read More]

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Book Review: Playing with the Past, edited by M. W. Kapell and A. B. R. Elliott

Simon Coll 9 December 2019 (last modified 3 March 2021)

A look at Matthew Kappell and Andrew Elliott's edited tome on the theory and practice of exploring history through video games... [Read More]

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