Leigh Alexander has written a good post about the difficulty of explaining games to non-gamers. Either we fail to adequately explain what's special about them, or we come off sounding pretentious and silly. If you ask me, that's all the justification we need to claim that games can be art. If anyone still cares about that argument.
Possibly coincidentally, but on the same theme, Tom Bissell has a new book out called Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. I've ordered myself a copy, but the 25 page preview on Random House's website looks promising.
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