Warren Spector, the creator of Deus Ex and the lead designer of the upcoming Epic Mickey has launched a scathing attack at the famous movie critic Robert Ebert after he claimed that video games can never be considered art.

Talking to Eurogamer, Spector said…

“Video games are just coming out of the period where I describe them as the medium adults don’t get. Roger Ebert is like the adult. He doesn’t get it. The fact is if we haven’t already reached the point where this is true, we’re very close to reaching the point where everyone plays games, in the same way that everyone goes to the movies and everyone watches television. We’re really at that sort of point where everybody plays games.

“Eventually some other thing will come along that I don’t get or you don’t get and we’ll all say, ‘Oh, those kids today, that stuff isn’t art’. The same thing happened with movies. Go back to the early days of movies. Go back to the early days of the novel, for crying out loud. That can’t be art. Go back to the days when people gave Shakespeare a hard time.”

His rant continued with…

“Whatever medium adults don’t understand can’t be art. Eventually those adults go away and new adults take their place, and some other medium takes the place of the thing that everybody hates. We’re coming out of that period now. What Roger Ebert thinks is completely irrelevant.”

So, what do you think. Are video games art?

If all video games were like the PS3 exclusive Flower then this argument would be easy to win…

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