"Video games shape our culture. It’s time we took them seriously." A really great essay by Henry Jenkins (Textual Poachers) about the future of interactive media. He states the video games are in fact art, and that is is up to fans and critics to shape the video game industry through cooperation and constructive critisim.

An article about the changing landscape of video games, as they evolve from product into art.

This thesis argues that the value codings inaugurated by
retail exchange exert a powerful influence over the aesthetic reception of gaming as a
set of enjoyable, exchangeable and exhaustible encounters. At the same time, the
mere fact that gamers talk about and contest each others' valuations in online forums
shows that there is nothing natural about such a valuation, and that the boundaries of
value codings and the boundaries of what constitutes fun are tested, if not traversed.