History and Games This Week
Welcome to the week in history and games, a short collection of links to stories and news that we hope you find interesting.
We are still playing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and loving it.
Old World has a release date! The game comes out on July 1st of this year, which is a lovely surprise given all the (very understandable) delays in game releases recently. We played some Old World and can definitely recommend it. A lot has been made of the game's connections to Civilization IV, sharing the same lead designer and composer. We may have to return and have a look soon.
If you are a Twitter user I strongly recommend you follow the Video Game History Foundation. They routinely share cool stuff from their archives and are also a fantastic source of games history related writing. Hat tip to them for pointing me to this fascinating piece on a 1983 book that sought to tackle the psychology of video games and this podcast episode on Flight Control, one of the early iOS gaming classics.
Greg Kasavin won a Nebula Award for games writing for his work on Hades! Well done Greg! He had a nice little twitter thread celebrating examples of game writing over the years, illustrating that "good" games writing is something that has been around for a while.
Not directly history related I suppose, but I found this article particularly interesting: Ellie Gibson wrote for the Guardian on why she started streaming on Twitch at age 43. I cannot think why that struck a chord...
Our own work here at History Respawned chugs on. John hosted Bob for some Sunless Skies late last week. We sent our crew to a grisly fate. But it was all in the name of games research. Look out for more content coming this week, perhaps some more Civs 101...
