This follows years of conversations among the governing members behind the prestigious and long-running Hugo Awards. Normally, video games aren’t nominated for the award, however, this year a new category was introduced for video games. The Hugo Awards are an annual literary award given to various sci-fi and fantasy works at the World Science Fiction Convention every year.

Today that story is that a little bit of history was made by indie video game Hades, which has become the first game ever to win a Hugo Award. So every once in a while comes a news story that gives me the opportunity to pull the old drum and sticks out and get back to playing persuasive percussion. As more people experience games, they’ve come to recognize better that games exhibit all the traditional hallmarks of an artform: creativity, political and ideological expression, efforts at preservation, and fights over expression in the courthouse.īut, of course, that doesn’t mean that everyone is convinced. While I spent a great deal of time ten years ago trying to get people, especially older folks, to see the light on this topic, the idea that video games are an artform has become far less controversial. While arguing that video games are a form of art and should be respected as such has been a personal drum I’ve enjoyed beating for a decade, it’s worth acknowledging just how far the public has come in its acceptance.

Thu, Dec 23rd 2021 03:48pm - Timothy Geigner

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