I believe this topic has been brought up countless times before. Should video games be considered works of art? FOX News released a story this morning of the US government funding the production of video games for "art and education."
The story used the video game "Call Of Duty: Black Ops" as an example, which I feel was a very, very poor choice. If a video game where you go around shooting things in the head was used on a news network as an art display, why not a series as beautiful and artistic as, say, The Elder Scrolls?
They've had a radio talk show host expressing his belief that the funding of video games would be a waste of the government's money; that there is a wealth (lol, money pun) of other much more important things to spend it on.
The president of a video game company expressed his belief that video games are as much an art form as music or cinema (And in France, cinema is actually counted as an art form, with federal funding going towards the production of movies and the construction of theaters in major metropolitain areas).
What do you believe should be done with the government funding, or lack thereof, of video games?
