The Video Game History Foundation is the real deal.
https://gamehistory.org/
Their Library Director Phil Salvador is a serious historian, who extensively researched, interviewed people, and wrote a comprehensive deep dive into the history of Maxis's serious games division, Maxis Business Simulations, John Hiles, and SimRefinery.
It was such an widely read, well received investigation, that it led to the recovery of SimRefinery when a reader discovered an old floppy disk of it that had been sitting in a drawer for decades!
https://archive.org/details/sim-refinery
https://gamehistory.org/library-director-phil-salvador/
https://gamehistory.org/ep-11-simrefinery-simulated-by-a-ref...
https://obscuritory.com/
https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/
https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6Cqn5rTfs