Exciting online events to check out at SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2026!

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 …

SDHistCon Summit 2025 seminar recording: Dan Bullock, John Butterfield, David Thompson and Jeremy White on narrative in solitaire games

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 …

War Story: Occupied France announced as 2025 Summit Award recipient

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 …

Designer roundtable: There’s a revolution happening in board games

This Conflicts of Interest Online post is from Alex Knight, designer of Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War. In this piece, Knight interviews seven designers about their work on board games focusing on struggles for social justice, Read More …