Ebert Was Right: Games Aren’t Art

VGW: One year ago, Roger Ebert wrote a Chicago Sun Times article about how video games “are not and never will be art.” His assertion forced the gaming industry to take a long hard look at itself and try to figure out how video games fit into the vast, “fuzzy” concept of what “art” is.

A year ago, that was a very timely and relevant debate. At the time, there was landscape that saw games learning how to express themselves as pieces of narrative media, becoming more socially acceptable pastimes and possessing academic discourse. The idea of establishing whether or not games should or should not, could or could not be enjoyed as art and what that meant for the industry was necessary.

The thing is, people haven’t shut up about it since…