Midwestern Gamer: "There has been a loud outcry against the comments made by Mr. Roger Ebert in regards to his belief that video games are not art. One needs only look at many other game sites or blogs to see the large amount of people responding to his claim. In that way I feel almost as if I am jumping on the band wagon, so I want bother talking about how games can inspire emotion, the art in Prince of Persia or Okami is a like moving paintings, or the comparisons between games and movies. I will however say that I do agree that all video games are art. The thing is that nearly everything is art . . ."
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
