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Even in the colourful world of video games, most players demand historical accuracy

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Even in the colourful world of video games, most players demand historical accuracy
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.6geqhhgwy
Authors

Burgess, Jacqueline

Abstract

58% of players felt video game developers should minimise changes to history - as long as it doesn’t get in the way of fun.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 207. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 May 2025.
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#231,951
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#25,472
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Altmetric has tracked 32,902,820 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 206,489 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.