While Tom Bissell's new book, ""Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter," argues that games are, at the very least, striving to become the medium of choice for telling stories and truly being art, Gamasutra polls various industry luminaries to ask them a similar question that we can never get a straight answer on: are games art or is crusty film critic Roger Ebert correct in his assertion that games are not art and can never be art?

"I think every game is a piece of art," says PlayStation Network senior director Susan Panico. She points to thatgamecompany's Flower as an example of gaming being art. She also mentioned, without elaborating, LittleBigPlanet, and Gran Turismo as examples. [URL=http://www.gameculture.com/2010/06/21/developers-weigh-039games-art039-argument][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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