I like Ebert, I really do. When it comes to wanting to know about Oscar worthy movies, I'll always go to him for reviews (not so much the more popcorn oriented ones though). However, I've always thought Ebert in the wrong (or misinformed) when it comes to not seeing videogames as art. Maybe the games of his time (Pong?) weren't, but today I'm constantly amazed at the emotions running through the Final Fantasy games, Shadow of the Colossus, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Darkness just to name a few. Games aren't art...hardly.

From the article:

Well known movie critic Roger Ebert got some gamers in a lather with some comments a year ago that in his opinion video games are not an art form. This past weekend Ebert wrote up a new opinion piece on the subject, this time as a response to an interview of horror writer Clive Barker on Ebert's views. Ebert has softened his views somewhat saying that while video games are indeed art, "games could not be high art, as I understand it." Ebert's views seem to center on games's interaction with the audience which he seems to believe is more like a sport than art.

Read the full article over at firingsquad.com