Roger Ebert responds, again, to the whole "video games cannot be art" thing.

"Okay, kids, play on my lawn"

Honestly, I don't see why there's such a big deal over whether or not video games are, or can be, Art™. Personally, I disagree with him in that I think they most definitely can be (and some already are, e.g. Shadow of the Colossus which Ebert himself mentions in that article), just as works in any other medium can be. But Ebert's opinion is his own, and he's welcome to it. It's not like he's saying something retarded like games should be banned forever, for whatever reason. I'm glad, though, to see that he's softening on his position, even if only in the most minute and curmudgeonly of ways.