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In the course of the last three decades, game studies has come to be reckoned as a discipline in its own right. Numerous volumes have appeared in print discussing video games as entertainment and edutainment. Although many of the video games on best-sellers’ lists have historical references or play out historical events, the relationship between history and video games is still an understudied topic in game studies. Matthew W. Kapell and Andrew BR Elliott’s new book Playing with the Past: