I’m Not Giving Up The Ebert Debate: Why It Matters to Diversity in Games that Video Games are Art

The Joel funko pop should have been the first to go on Ebert’s grave, and the Ellie funko pop should show that, at least for now, video games have shown the possibility of surpassing cinema.

Video games have proven they can not only equal but surpass cinema — at least, in stories about coping with your dad being a hitman. © Netflix 2019 and © Naughty Dog 2020

When film critic Roger Ebert said in 2005 that video games couldn’t be art, video gamers were offended. In…