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 …
This article is by Kimber VanRy, who has been president of the Metropolitan Wargamers club for 10 years. Below, Kimber explores the club’s history around its 40th anniversary this year, and also discusses what’s next for them. Background Metropolitan Wargamers Read More …
This post has Conflicts of Interest Online editor Andrew Bucholtz interviewing game designer Pablo López about his La Desbandá 1937 role-playing game, which puts players in the shoes of survivors navigating a massacre of civilians during the Spanish Civil War. Read More …
This article is from Rob Doane, curator of the U.S. Naval War College Museum in Newport, Rhode Island. (Its Founders Hall location is seen at right above, next to Luce Hall at left.) The museum is the host for SDHistCon Read More …