Are Video Games Art? Why Games Should Be Taken as Seriously as Novels, Films, and Other Forms of Creative Expression"Video games can never be art," thundered movie critic Roger Ebert in 2010. Responding to a...Gillespie, Nick
The reason most of us instinctively agree that video games are art is probably that art is considered a purely creative process. Someone creates something with his creativity, and the result is art. And that’s a very clear reason. Game development itself is more than a creative process where...
I’m not about to pick apart the biggest most easily-accessible titles under the guise of high art, much the same as a discussion around film’s artistic label would not immediately be applied to Michael Bay’s Transformers series. That being said as the debate around video games as art ...
The National Endowment for the Arts recentlymade an announcementthat was MIDI music to our ears: It was now considering “interactive games” among the art forms to which it would offer funding. Games blogs across the web threw confetti: “It means that if a developer wants to create games ...
It depends what you mean. If you mean their impact on culture than yes, they are important(if you think i'm wrong try to think of today without Video Games). If you mean why they are important to someone it is because of two reasons: 1.Video games let yo
There have been many recent discussions concerning the status of video games as an art form. The converts naturally assert that they are, and others (some artists, judges, parents, and lawmakers) deny it. What is at stake is, in the worst case, the freedom to create and sell games, as...
Since its 2015 launch, Nutaku, with MindGeek’s backing, has notably invested millions in hentai game development, and organized numerous extravagant marketing gimmicks, like a New York arts exhibition titled Hentai Is Art, to build the brand — and get unfamiliar Western consumers a bit more com...
Needless to say, gambling and gaming can be considered as an art. Both gamblers and gamers explore new adventures, carry out experiments, and try various innovative technologies available. However, when it comes to gambling, players wager money at games like roulette,blackjack, and pokies. ...
Video games are a new formof art. They will not replace books; they will sit beside them, interact with them, and change them andtheir role in society in various ways, as indeed, they are already doing strongly with movies. We haveno idea yet how people "read" video games, what ...
Why video games are good for you 1. They exercise the brain Let's face it; playing video games is often thought of as an activity that promotes a sedentary lifestyle, not one that exercises the brain. But there have been studies that suggest that video games can be beneficial for improvi...