The Routledge Companion to Video Games and History

Robert Houghton is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. He has published extensively on engagement with the medieval period in games of all sorts, including most notably his 2024 monograph The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism.

Kate Cook is currently a Lecturer in Greek Culture at King's College London. Her research focuses on women in historical video games, and gender and language in Greek Tragedy. She has published on a range of topics related to gender in historical games, and was the co-editor of Women in Classical Video Games (2022).

Chris Kempshall is a public historian who specialises in transnational experiences of allied warfare and modern media representations of history. He is the author of numerous academic works on these subjects, including; The First World War in Computer Games (2015). He is currently the Historical Consultant for BlackMill Games. His book The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy was published by Routledge in August 2022.