Videogames are art, the New York Times agrees

An op-ed contributor to the New York Times describes Red Dead Redemption 2 as “true art” in an opinion piece published Friday. In his piece extolling the ingenuity of Rockstar’s latest epic, Reason.com editor Peter Suderman makes an impassioned and convincing case for videogames as an art form in America’s newspaper of record. “Like the classic westerns and gangster stories it draws from, it can be crude and violent,” Suderman writes. “But it is also richly cinematic and even literary, serving up breathtaking digital vistas reminiscent of John Ford films along with a mix of deftly scripted stories about outlaws, immigrants, hustlers, con artists, lawmen and entrepreneurs, all trying to eke out an existence on the edges of civilization.” Not bad, right? The debate over videogames qualifying as art has been going on for a while, particularly since legendary Chicago Tribune critic Roger Ebert declared in 2010 that video games “can never be art.” As any reader of this site might imagine, Ebert caught a lot of flak for that statement. But he never backed off, and before he died he even doubled down.

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