We’re pulling together the events schedule for our next online convention, SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2026. This convention will run from 8 a.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT to 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Saturday, Jan. 31, and we have lots Read More …
We at SDHist are excited to share the four great events we have planned for 2026! Here are our planned dates for the year. Stay tuned to Conflicts of Interest Online and our social media feeds (X, Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, Read More …
Our recent Summit convention in San Diego featured a number of excellent seminars for attendees, featuring game designers, podcasts, writers, and more discussing numerous areas of importance to historical games. One of those panels, on narrative in solitaire games, was Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce Amabel Holland’s video essay “Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context” as the recipient of the 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched last year in memory of our Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the winner of the fourth annual Summit Award. The Summit Award aims to recognize a historical board game published in the preceding year that most broadened the hobby through Read More …
This post is from Alex Knight. Alex is the designer of Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War, which received the 2024 incarnation of SDHist’s Summit Award (for games published in 2023). That award recognizes the historical board Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched last year in memory of our colleague and friend, Robert “Bobby Factor” Nunes (seen above during a Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the four finalists for the fourth annual Summit Award. The Summit Award aims to recognize a historical board game published in the preceding year that most broadened the hobby Read More …
Tickets are now available for this year’s SDHistCon Summit 2025 in San Diego! This face-to-face convention will take place November 7-10 (Friday to Monday) in the Point Loma neighborhood at the SES Portuguese Hall. That’s four full days of gaming Read More …
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Summit Award and 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award! The Summit Award, established by SDHist in 2022, is an annual award recognizing the published game that most broadens the historical gaming hobby through its Read More …