These articles about are game really art or not is becoming played out and a tiring. Are games art? I'd say yes, depending on the game. But the thing about art is that art is really defined by personal opinion. I wouldn't classify a picture of a soup can art, but others would.

From the article:

For the piece, Post technology and games writer Mike Musgrove took an Xbox 360 and a copy of BioShock over to the home of the Post's 58-year-old, Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda, who played the game unassisted for a couple of weeks. As might be expected for a guy whose last game was Myst, Dirda had trouble getting past Neptune's Bounty. "I've got a first-aid kit, but I haven't figured out how to use it," Dirda said in a quote sure to draw guffaws from gamers who haven't won a Pulitzer Prize.

Read the full article over at joystiq.com