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Are video games art? Why or why not?

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VO Cleanup: http://www.youtube.com/user/KyleJohnsonVA
Vaati's "Are videogames art? /thread" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdU8bXbSQjE

Sources:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rockefeller-Video-Game-Bill-Will-Be-Re-Introduced-in-the-Senate-324292.shtml
http://soundisstyle.com/2012/07/skrillex-trung-feat-wale.html
http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/10/3859686/bill-calling-for-study-of-violent-video-games-is-dead-but-will-be
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr287
http://beautifultrouble.org/case/the-couple-in-the-cage/
http://www.thing.net/~cocofusco/video/cage/cage1.htm
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/faq.jsp

Erin Burnett Outfront Segment -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blH3Shg3nX8
Couple in the Cage Clip -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX2Lk2tdcw

Also Wikipedia and Morguefile. Some art made by me.

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