Game Designer Kellee Santiago Responds to Roger Ebert's "Video Games Are Not Art" Rant

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Aside from a certain leak of a certain phone, no topic has garnered as much blog and Twitter attention as Roger Ebert's expansion of his "video games are not and cannot be art" theory. His refrain? "No one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy
of comparison with the great poets, filmmakers, novelists and poets." Kellee Santiago, whose TED speech on the very subject was refuted, point by point, by Ebert, responded herself.

Ebert's theory necessarily rests on there...