We at SDHist have plenty of great events planned for 2025. Here are our dates for the year. More details will follow on each event. Stay tuned to Conflicts of Interest Online and our social media feeds (Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram) 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 winner of 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 through 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 post is from SDHistCon founder Harold Buchanan. Below is a summary of feedback from SDHistCon East 2024 at the U.S. Naval War College Museum from August 8-11, 2024. We had roughly 75 registrants, with most in attendance (including the Read More …
This post is from Akar Bharadvaj. Akar is the designer of the 2021 Zenobia Award first prize winner Tyranny of Blood. He is a member of the board for Zenobia II, as well as SDHistCon. Since October 1 of last 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 …