Alexander Von Sternberg
Host of the History Impossible podcast and an enthusiastic history-minded gamer who joins History on Fire to discuss how video games reconstruct and teach history.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 2h 18min
[RERUN] EPISODE 84: History and Video Games
Alexander Von Sternberg, host of History Impossible and history-minded gamer, joins to explore how games reconstruct the past. They discuss prehistoric play in Far Cry Primal and Ancestors, the melancholy authenticity of Red Dead, Assassin’s Creed’s Renaissance playground, Ghost of Tsushima’s poetic immersion, and Kingdom Come’s late medieval rigor. Short, fun takes on how interactivity shapes historical worlds.
