Bret Devereaux

Bret Devereaux writes a weekly blog about the history in media, including video games. He’s the only historian that I know who is doing so, and his blog is good.https://acoup.blog/2021/07/09/fireside-friday-july-9-2021/ …

Thanks! So y'all don't have to march through the entire archives to find the video-game specific topics, I did a series on the historical assumptions behind Paradox's popular historical strategy game Europa Universalis here:https://acoup.blog/2021/04/30/collections-teaching-paradox-europa-univeralis-iv-part-i-state-of-play/ …

I also talked about their medieval strategy offering, Crusader Kings III here: https://acoup.blog/2020/09/11/miscellanea-my-thoughts-on-crusader-kings-iii/ … I'm going to be writing about one more of their games, Victoria II, a little later in the summer.

I've got a take on Microsoft's Age of Empires (and its lack of actual empires):https://acoup.blog/2019/11/22/collections-why-are-there-no-empires-in-age-of-empires/ …

And the most popular blog post I've written, a look at Assassin's Creed: Valhalla's really unfortunate use of history, particularly as it relates to utilizing pro-colonialist tropes:https://acoup.blog/2020/11/20/miscellanea-my-thoughts-on-assassins-creed-valhalla/ …