Roger Ebert said that in 2005, not 2010. In fact, in 2010 he changed his mind: “My error in the first place was to think I could make a convincing argument on purely theoretical grounds. What I was saying is that video games could not in principle be Art. That was a foolish position to take, particularly as it seemed…

Congrats and good luck with your next respawn! You’re one of the writers I still remember from when I started reading in 2007.