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Are games art? It’s a question that comes up more and more, as the medium slowly grows out of its awkward, teenage years. EA producer Jim Preston thinks the debate is a meaningless one, as he explains in an incredibly well-thought-out feature on Gamasutra.

Preston takes his duration to remind of us the state of art in general, and how art is continuously judged by its relative place in culture: a urinal can be art whether Marcel Duchamp says so, and places it in an art gallery. Since

it’s all a matter of perspective, Preston argues that we shouldn’t be bickering with Roger Ebert by whether games can be art, but instead spending our instance improving the medium, and awaiting further artistic recognition from the community at large.

Makes sense to us. We’ll stop waiting by the mailbox for our invite to the arty party, thereupon.

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