Ben discovered history via video games. Now grown up, he wants to know if all the historical games he loved so much as a child have given him an inaccurate understanding of world history…

The French spend their time singing their national anthem, Vikings wear horned helmets and the middle ages were dark and violent. Why are there often so many clichés in historical video games?

As video games become more visually realistic are they also becoming more historically accurate? The most visually spectacular are often the most untruthful…

Kingdom Come Deliverance was created with crowdfunding to satisfy a hunger for historically accurate games. Extremely well researched, it provides a realistic portrayal of Bohemia in the middle ages avoiding all clichés.

Briefing game creators who want to use an era’s most spectacular aspects to keep game players hooked is the historian’s difficult role. How do historians work with the studios? And if there is a dispute, who wins?

Is there any riskier subject for game developers then religion? In a global gaming community, how do creators portray faith in historical video games without causing offence?

What if Hitler had won the war and Kennedy was not assassinated? Hypothetical worlds, known as uchronias, are popular in video games and allow developers to let their inner history geek run free.

Video games are immersive experiences and increasingly realistic representation. Set in the past, can they help us to process historical events?

We see it often in video games: a heroic army “saves the world” with tanks and machine guns under a star-spangled banner. Could a pacifist game be possible?

Video games are now seen as cultural products like any other, worthy of critique and discussion. But with the digital revolution in full swing, could they be used in formal education?