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Some video games are not art. We didn't possess the language to understand this till we had to explain how some video games are just gambling with extra steps. Other video games are art that sucks. Which makes it hard to analyze. Some are sports, which can produce art in the playing but is not itself sufficent to be called art.
Gamers being generally terrible will not be able to verbalize their emotions on thrbmatter unfortunately
there's a lot of things we call "games" that kinda aren't games either, but we've gone full circle and "game" became the prestigious signifier in some places so you get people trying to go "not a game" (derogatory) and then you have people defending that as "yes a game" (supportive) when not giving ground to reactionaries is more important than the more correct "not a game" (positive) where we validate and uphold interactive multimedia projects that don't have rules or objectives or score on their own merits.
Kinetic Novels, 3D scans of museums, simulations, etc all have their own merits and don't need to be "Games" to be valid, just as games in some gestalt whole don't need to be "Art" to be valid.
According to the article, gambling or sports are also art. People who argue from a more narrow definition of art can only claim that some games include art, but cannot make the case that the games in themselves are artistic.