Embedded below is the first in what will ideally be a 5-part series exploring how video games have evolved as a medium and are now at a point where they have the potential to easily evoke the kind of reactions that more established forms of artistic media do.

Round 1 initiates some discourse into what has become a widely debated question: are video games art?

The purposes of this series as a whole will be to explore examples of how video games are spreading their wings as a creative medium to deliver experiences they simply couldn't before and their potential to integrate their players into experiences no other form of medium can provide.