[Typhoid]

I personally don't believe video games (as a whole) can be considered art.
As someone said, parts of games might be really artistic, or have artistic elements to them. The original Super Mario Bros. isn't art - but a painting/picture about that game would be.

I mean, if you want to actually look at the definition of what art is:

"Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions. "

Really, anything can arguably be 'art'. I can fart in a cup, turn that cup upside-down, place it on a yellow piece of paper, and put a flower or two around it - and as long as you felt anything from seeing, feeling, or smelling it - my fart in a cup with a floral pattern is art.

I would like to see the word 'art' kept for traditional art-type things. If video games and movies are art, what's stopping some kid on youtube who makes a 30 second viral video of a monkey throwing shit at a banana to claim that he is an artist?

But, to be fair to art - I suppose that is why there are categories to art. Performing Arts, Plastic Arts (Sculpting), Decorative Arts (Ceramics, Textiles etc.) and Literature.

I don't view conceptual art as art, either. Duchamp was a terrible person in the eyes of what art always was. Soon, if we make enough categories everything will be art. I don't like that.