Shamus Young handles the issue brilliantly

Since I get The Escapist in my feed reader, I always have the opportunity to brighten my day with Shamus Young's Stolen Pixels. He recently started a hilarious series in the aftermath of Ebert's "games will never be art" piece starring Max Payne. Obviously, this is an issue I'm close to having blogged about it here previously. Strip #191 featuring "Big Pete" Molyneux is particularly awesome. If you'd rather start with part 1 of the series, click here first.

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Some people just can't leave well enough alone

I was reading in the Escapist about Roger Ebert's most recent rant on how games aren't art. Oh wait, I mean how games "can never be art." I've made my own thoughts on the matter at least moderately clear. Under the circumstances I think I'll just link to this post from Love's creator Eskil Steenberg and drop in this image from Dear Esther as a sort of minimalist rebuttal.

A screen shot from Dear Esther, I still need to play it

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