Are Games Art?

Saturday 17 April 2010 at 8:48 pm There has been a lot of back and forth between Ebert and the gaming community at large over whether or not games can be art. Like most gamers, I side with idea that games can be art, and I've played several that to me are unquestionably art. Well, Ebert recently posted his response to a (failed) argument of games as art by Kellee Santiago of thatgamecompany. He spent some time disagreeing with definition of art used by Santiago, but reading Ebert's response it became very clear to me that his definition of video games is extremely outdated. (more)