I think games are art because they are created by people to illicit an emotional response. That response might be traditional 'artistic' responses such as happiness, awe or fear but they also create emotional responses like panic, trauma and shock which are rarer when reading a novel or looking at a painting. Yeah, 99%…
Why would anyone care what Roger Ebert has to say on Video Games? The man has probably never played anything beyond Pacman, and anyone who says "never" is 99% of the time wrong. Video Games are composed of Art from the environments to the characters to the FX. They convey mood, thoughts and feelings. The story or gameplay…