Video game: 'Hyperdimension Nuptunia Victory'

It wasn’t mentioned in many of the obituaries of Roger Ebert, but it still smarts among nerds everywhere: Ebert’s declaration that video games aren’t, and never can be, art. Games, unlike movies, have an objective, and they rely on the input of users trying to achieve that objective, so they’re better described as activities, he argued.

“Bobby Fischer, Michael Jordan and Dick Butkus never said they thought their games were an art form,” Ebert wrote on his blog in 2010. “Nor did Shi Hua Chen, winner of the $500,000 World Series of Mah Jong in 2009. Why aren’t gamers content to play their games and simply enjoy themselves?”