Thanks to everyone who attended our SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2025 convention on Feb. 8! More than 150 people came for some or all of a full day of gaming events, covering game demos, topical panels, company updates, and more. Here Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce Liz Davidson’s Beyond Solitaire podcast interview series as the recipient of the 2024 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched this year in memory of our colleague and friend, Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2024 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched this year in memory of our colleague and friend, Robert “Bobby Factor” Nunes (seen above during a Read More …
This post is from Akar Bharadvaj. Akar is the director of the Zenobia Award. He was previously selected as the first-place winner of the award in 2021 for his game Tyranny of Blood, on changes to India’s social structure under Read More …
This article is from Edgar Milik, a long time board and historical gamer and technological facilitator for SDHist. It is based on the 2016 Terraforming Mars board game, designed by Jacob Fryxelius and published by FryxGames, Stronghold Games, and more, Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the four finalists for the third 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 …
This article is by Mark McLaughlin. Mark has design credits on 28 currently-published games (including Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea, Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Wellington, Hitler’s Reich: WWII in Europe, and more) with more in the works. Read More …
Last week saw our second-annual SDHistCon East event at the U.S. Naval War College Museum in Newport, Rhode Island. Over four days, attendees got to tour nearby historical sites (including Fort Adams, the International Museum of World War II, and Read More …
This post is from Dr. Stuart Ellis-Gorman. Here, Dr. Ellis-Gorman describes the progress of the We Intend To Move On Your Works project of playing through and discussing American Civil War games that he and Pierre Vagneur-Jones have been conducting, Read More …
This post is from Riccardo Masini from Italian Facebook group LudoStoria, and covers their upcoming I want to tell you a story… let’s play it! panel (3 p.m. ET/noon PT) at our online convention SDHistCon Second Front this Saturday, June Read More …