The project investigates strategies of popularizing history in particularly popular digital games. It does so in three interconnected work packages (AB). AB I examines the ideas of (political) order and violence as conveyed in games with historical settings. AB II examines the methods the games use to popularize specific historical events, processes, actors and more general ideas about history. AB III analyses the reception of these methods and the way popular history as produced by the games is perceived in selected communities of gam-ers.