The art of video games 05:06 (CBS News) Video games like Space Invaders used to be confined to small screens at home and in video arcades. Not anymore, as of this past Friday.

But The Art of Video Games at least brings the language of the medium into the discussion for everyone. And that's exactly what guest curator Chris Melissinos wants. Section TOC Title ...

Ebert denies video games the status of art on a de-facto basis, having never played one himself; no video game yet has deserved his "attention long enough to play it." This is the biggest red flag ...

Roger Ebert's recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows the intrinsic ...

In this year's shortlist of Best Video Game Art, fairy tale worlds are up against beautifully haunting vistas, robot dinosaurs roam sumptuous landscapes, cute rules supreme when the hero is a fox ...

Among those at the E3 video gaming convention in Los Angeles was Microsoft's Kevin Brown, the senior art director and the highest-ranking African-American in the company's games unit. He talks to ...

"Video games can never be art," thundered movie critic Roger Ebert in 2010. Responding to a provocative TED Talk that argued the opposite, Ebert dismissed the examples mentioned in the ...

Video game art books are some of the best video game merch we can buy. I think video game art books are some of the best gaming books to collect, period, actually. I have about 50 of them now and ...

About two years ago, film critic Roger Ebert informed his readers in the Chicago Sun-Times that despite any love they may harbor for their Nintendos or PlayStations, he believed in a blunt, ...

Just like cars, the "art" of video games then is in most (though not all) cases a luxury, afforded only when the mechanics -– a most un-arty term -– are in order.

Making Video Games from Art The impossible, perspective-fudging worlds of M. C. Escher and Salvador Dalí come to life in 'Monument Valley' and 'Back to Bed' ...