I just ran across a very well-written article defending Roger Ebert’s position on whether games can be art, written by a game developer, no less. I still take issue with the, to me, arbitrary distinction between art and Great Art, but it’s a great read, nonetheless.
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haha, you beat me to it; this popped up in my feed today too (http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/22/brian-moriarty-is-with-ebert-video-games-aren-t-true-art), along with a link to another article on the topic by Ebert: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/07/okay_kids_play_on_my_lawn.html