Increasingly So (Score 1)

This same discussion was existent when film began moving into the 'mainstream', and it is now accepted as a contepory art form. The same is true for video games, but it is still a maturing medium. I am currently studing Bachelor of Fine Arts and I have seen a lot more obscure things classified as art; it seems to be anything where you can read any underlying message or that presents any idea (whether intended by the author / artist or not) is an artwork. That being said you could argue that the individual elements that construct the game (level design, skins, sound design, etc) are art but in their combined form they are meerly a device for entertainment.