War Games: Real Conflicts is a UK exhibition exploring "what video games tell us about conflict"

Imperial War Museum London's new exhibition wants to challenge "perceptions of how video games interpret stories about war and conflict".

Entitled War Games: Real Conflicts | Virtual Worlds | Extreme Entertainment, the exhibition is running from now until May 2023 and seeks to "delve into one of today’s most popular storytelling mediums and ask how the reality of war is represented in the virtual world of a video game".

"Featuring 12 diverse case studies, War Games invites visitors to interrogate the tension that exists between the thrill and tragedy of warfare in a game and its repercussions in the real world," a press release says.

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