‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted’: The Portrayal of the Nizari Isma’ilis in the Assassin’s Creed Game Series
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed does a remarkable – though not flawless – job in presenting a well-balanced game narrative, which incorporates not only a historically justified representation of the Nizari Isma’ilis, but also implicitly corrects one of the most famous Western legends about the so-called ‘Assassins’
Gaming history: computer and video games as historical scholarship
The video game offers far greater potential for the creation and presentation of history than any other entertainment or interactive media.
Book Review: Assassin’s Creed: Trial by Fire
By Danièle Cybulskie Assassin’s Creed: Trial by Fire, a compilation of the first five comic books in the new Assassin’s Creed series, comes…
Medieval Oslo recreated on Minecraft
A new Youtube video is showing the results of a project by history students at the University of Oslo where they recreate how a…
Teaching Historical Theory through Video Games
The potential of video games for teaching history is receiving increasing recognition. However, the greatest emphasis is on their use as tools in secondary education. The few studies focusing on undergraduate education demonstrate the use of games to create an immersive historical experience with counterfactual options.
The Diverse Pedagogies of Medievalism
This roundtable explored some of the many pedagogies of medievalism in the modern academy. To what purposes is medievalism taught, and how? Using what texts and in what contexts?
When Reality Becomes Fantasy: How Video Games are Hijacking the Middle Ages
“The Middle Ages is a space where White Supremecy is legitimised. The maintenance of white privilege. The gamer community use ‘historical facts’ to legitimise this kind of literacy.’
Minecraft and the Middle Ages
It is one of the most popular video games ever created. Moreover, educators are finding ways to use Minecraft as a teaching tool, and one that could be ideal for learning about the Middle Ages.
New App: Prosperity – Italy 1434
Looking for a new game to get you back to the Middle Ages? Prosperity – Italy 1434, based on factual characters and events, and which allows you to get involved in alliances, assassins, corruption and battles, is now available for Android as well as IOS users.
The other possible past: simulation of the Middle Ages in video games
The video game phenomenon is marking our current and future the perception of the medieval past.
Genre Medievalisms: Geek Goes Chic!
Is Cersei a collection of bad medieval stereotypes? Have nerds gone mainstream? Were American cowboys a modern retelling of the medieval knight? Put down that comic, put away your bag of dice, and indulge your inner nerd.
Top 5 Medieval Video Games
From JazReviews, here are the top five Medieval Video Games!
Which Assassin’s Creed Character Are You?
Assassin’s Creed and its sequels have created some memorable characters. Which assassin would you be?
Grand Ages: Medieval coming to your computer screens in 2015
A new video game will soon allow players to explore, build up and go to war in 30 million square kilometres of pixelated medieval Europe.
Staging Medievalisms: Touching the Middle Ages through Contemporary Performance
Examining the Middle Ages through modern eyes: movies, TV, stage, tourism and books. How do we perform the Middle Ages?
Smearing the Medieval: Architectural Objects and Time Travel in Amnesia: The Dark Descent
In late 2010, a small game development company known as Frictional Games launched Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a survival horror game fixated upon medieval and Renaissance traditions.
‘It’s the Middle Ages, Yo!’: Race, Neo/medievalisms, and the World of Dragon Age
This article examines ways in which the idea of an authentic Middle Ages is deployed in fan debates over perceived racism in the role-playing video-game Dragon Age: Origins (DAO), its sequel Dragon Age II (DA2), and the forthcoming third game.
Dungeons, but no dragons: new video game wants to give a realistic portrayal of the Middle Ages
A group of Czech video game makers have already raised over £430,000 on Kickstarter to create Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a RPG that will allow players to quest and fight in a more historically-realistic medieval world.
Medievalism as fun and games
Medievalism hides in many guises in contemporary culture, of which four will be examined here.
Great Battles Medieval released on iPad
If you are looking to re-fight the Hundred Years War on your iPad, the game Great Battles Medieval might be for you!