About Gaming Through History
A podcast that takes apart games portraying historical events — and a website that expands every episode with researched, cited, primary-source history.
The podcast
Gaming Through History examines video games that portray historical events and explores how realistic those portrayals truly are. Each episode focuses on a game, a mission, or an era — from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the battlefields of Normandy.
Research standards
Every article on this site is researched and generated by an automated pipeline, then reviewed by a human before publication. Nothing AI-generated ever goes live without approval. Historical claims are drawn from approved sources, in preference order:
- Tier 1U.S. National Archives
- Tier 2Library of Congress
- Tier 3National Park Service
- Tier 4U.S. Army Center of Military History
- Tier 5U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
- Tier 6Smithsonian Institution
- Tier 7UK National Archives
- Tier 8Imperial War Museums
- Tier 9Wikipedia (discovery only)
Accuracy policy
We never invent historical facts. Quotations, casualty numbers, dates, units, people, locations, and source URLs are only included when verifiable. If information cannot be verified from approved sources, it is marked “Unable to verify from approved sources.” The site distinguishes clearly between what happened historically, what the game depicts, what the podcast hosts say, and the site's own researched explanation.
Image licensing
Images come from public-domain U.S. government archives, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and Wikimedia Commons files with clearly compatible licenses. For every image we record its URL, source page, photographer, institution, license, and attribution requirements before it may be used. Old photographs are not assumed to be public domain.