Apologies if this is a poor question that should not be in this subreddit as i'm unsure if it violates the rule on scope.
Video Games and History is an area of research I find so very interesting yet I am struggling to find much on it. I'm interested in how people can learn history through video games, how historical representation affects historical understanding and how popular video games might effect which history is currently popular or popular opinions of particular figures. There seems to be a decent amount on Film, TV and Fiction but none for Video Games so I'm just wondering if anyone knows any works on these or related areas that they could direct me to or make me aware of? Particularly if there is any historiographical discourse.
Many Thanks.
The one I know of is an anthology: Matthew Kapell and Andrew Elliott, eds., Representations of History in Video Games (2013)
If you search through the recent archives of pop culture and media studies journals I bet you will find some individual articles as well.
A little while back we did a Monday Methods feature on history & video games that got some amazing responses. It won't count as historiography for paper purposes, of course, but you might be interested anyway!
It's certainly being researched -- though the relative newness of the phenomenon may greatly reduce the number of hits, so specific phrases and boolean connectors may be the key to continuing your search (so you don't just type "history and video games" and get the history of video games). I don't know which type of search engines you're using, but if you're looking at academic databases like Jstor or ProjectMUSE, it may be helpful too look include words like "pedagogy" in your searches, but you may run into a few speculative articles from a decade ago. Or you can find more recent articles about the Roman Empire and Minecraft.
In particular, I think Playing with the Past may be a good start. You can see their call for papers/chapters here. *edit: this is the book /u/sunagainstgold mentions.
Similarly this book covers religious studies and video games.
You may be interested in this article (you can ungate it via Sci-Hub) that looks at common assumptions about global politics found in historical strategy games. From an IR angle more than history though.