Play The Past

Thoughtful exploration of digital games and meaningful play in cultural heritage

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New on @playthepast: Joel White @thethirdmedium recounts how #CK2 transformed his relationship to history, and how historical (re)play can rescue historical thinking from the stultifying grasp of textbooks. https://t.co/pGQS1LjGl8

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New on @playthepast : "How Ubisoft Got Machiavelli Wrong in Assassin’s Creed" by @IvGoldman #Machiavelli #videogames #AssassinsCreed #Ubisoft #history
https://t.co/2nunUIqwGi

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Game devs have gotten more nimble at avoiding the pitfalls of stereotyping. Some indie devs excel at upending common cultural tropes. But as Aliva Lai @mx_alvina reveals, stereotypes live and die by the narratives they enable, and the realities they mask. https://t.co/u91BSfA2gy

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Game devs have gotten more nimble at avoiding the pitfalls of stereotyping. Some indie devs excel at upending common cultural tropes. But as Aliva Lai @mx_alvina reveals, stereotypes live and die by the narratives they enable, and the realities they mask. https://t.co/u91BSfA2gy

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New on Play the Past: The Librarian in Strange Horticulture https://t.co/1Mm0d3gx0J

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Play the Past: how do players experience time in (re)playable historical narratives?

To open 2023, we'd like to offer our readers a brief philosophical probe into the stuff of time in historical games: https://t.co/XKd19bOvfl

All the best in the New Year!

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Play the Past: how do players experience time in (re)playable historical narratives?

To open 2023, we'd like to offer our readers a brief philosophical probe into the stuff of time in historical games: https://t.co/XKd19bOvfl

All the best in the New Year!

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"Koopa! How can sameness produce difference?" asked Mario-the-Philosopher to Koopa Troopa on his 62nd time through the level.

https://t.co/XKd19bOvfl

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#CallofDuty a "gov't psyop"? Bold words by the folks @MintPressNews: "Documents obtained legally under FOIA by journalist and researcher Tom Secker and shared with MintPress News show [active collaboration] between the national security state and the video game industry."

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An exclusive MintPress investigation has exposed the videogame Call of Duty as a US military psyop.

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It's official: the new @PdxInteractive cat is out of the bag.

As we explore the game in depth, we can ask: what kind of historicity does #Victoria3 offer?

Does it distance itself from eurocentric models of history common to historical simulations?

https://t.co/Td5uMVh85l

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We'll be looking into this over the weekend, and will do our best to get the site back up asap.

Apologies for the inconvenience, and thx in advance for your understanding.

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The #ElderScrollsOnline proposes a quest in which the player must help an elf archivist ward off Daedra destruction of imperial records. But as @playthepast's @mx_alvina asks: in attempting to preserve memory, what cause is the player ultimately serving?

https://t.co/YKmqozLlPA

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New on Play the Past: Archives and Historical Accuracy in The Elder Scrolls Online https://t.co/YWxGk967aF

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"Not ‘just a game’: World of board games faces reckoning for colonial themes" #boardgames #Colonialism #TruthAndReconciliation

https://t.co/4rE1s4tc1r

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Fantastic news, congratulations Jeremiah!

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"Games give their players an expansive, detailed, exciting—and, yes, controversial—way to dive into history. That’s more than you could say for most high-school textbooks," @lijukic writes:
https://t.co/qyreHl5jrU

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New on Play the Past: Feeling History in Blasphemous: Monstrosity and Spectacle through Time https://t.co/wHaQmAaYBs

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New on Play the Past: Feeling History in Blasphemous: Monstrosity and Spectacle through Time https://t.co/wHaQmAaYBs

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New on Play the Past: The Academic Library in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim https://t.co/3Y9oi1lRT1