War Games: Tactical Media surveyed the longstanding and tangled relationship between videogames and the US military. The first videogame, Spacewar!, was created by computer researchers at MIT in 1962 using nascent computer technology funded by the US Department of Defense. Since then, the commercial videogame industry has grown in tandem with - and partly thanks to - the US military's development of computer and digital technologies.

This exhibition invited visitors to explore an extensive media archive including interviews with game developers and military personnel, footage of soldiers training in cutting-edge VR gaming simulations and documentaries about the military's use of Esports tournaments to insinuate itself into youth culture. The connection between videogames and the military in the popular imagination was chronicled in a collection of vintage and contemporary game commercials, user-generated content from social media and excerpts from Hollywood movies. Visitors were also able to play Call of Duty in a mock living room and our original art game, Discharged, in a custom arcade cabient.