The debate on whether to call video games as a form of art continues.

"We try very hard to avoid the debate as to whether games are art, as it tends to attract people with too much time on their hands," says Rockstar Games boss Dan Houser in a recent interview after their upcoming project, L.A. Noire, becomes the first video game ever to be featured at the Tribeca Film Festival.

"That being said, we obviously feel that games are an amazing creative medium that have unique rewards and unique challenges," he continued. "Games today are moving towards creative maturity, as both people’s skill at designing them improves and the underlying technology to build them makes more and more possible. Production values have improved massively in games over the last five years. We have tried hard to ensure that in our games, an extra layer of gloss and polish is used to make the interactivity more interesting, the world more vibrant and the characters more nuanced. If we do that, we create an experience that is very engaging for people and entirely unique to the medium of games – the chance to live in a world that does not exist and experience life as someone you are not."

The "games as art" debate has been a pressing issue since the video game industry exploded in early 2000 with the release of some highly cinematic titles. It was later blown out of proportion after Roger Ebert, a renowned and respected movie critic argued that "video games can never be art."

True that some may not consider video games as a kind of art form, but with the new technology being implemented nowadays to support games combined with the way they try to stir our emotions, it's hard to argue anymore whether to consider video games as an art, because at the end of the day, it's simply is...

How about you guys? What's your take on the argument? Drop us a comment below or continue the discussion on the forum.

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