Perhaps most famously, Roger Ebert weighed in multiple times to the contrary, asserting not only that games were not yet art but that they could never be art, because they relinquished ultimate control to the player. John Lanchester addressed the topic in the London Review of Books in a bluntly titled essay, “Is it art?” In Esquire, Chuck Klosterman argued in favor of taking games seriously as a pop culture phenomenon but wondered why they had not yet produced great criticism. About a decade ago, as the last generation of video game consoles hit the market, a debate, or at least a question, proliferated among pop culture critics: Are video games really art? Could they ever be?
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