Digital Cowboys: Episode 105

Can Games be Art?

We welcome back Daniel Floyd to the show (last seen in #101 when we talked about sex in games). He was the first man we thought of when it came time to wrangle the slippery eel of rooting out why video games have yet to be considered as art and what might help them to be accepted. The toughest part was making sure we didn't disappear up our own arses, but our conclusions were actually pretty surprising.

We also discuss Star Trek, the whole trilogy of Fallout 3 DLC, the recent Gamehounds playdate, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Wii Sports Party, plus the latest news, your emails and our random game of the week.

The music at the end credits was composed by Daniel himself as a reworking of a classic piece of game scoring.

A special thanks to my sister Lucy Shaw (BA Hons - History of Art) for some extra research and consulting for this show.

The fourth Digital Cowboys Game Night is this Sunday 17/05/09 at 8pm BST/3pm EST. Remember to send your gaming pet hates for next week's show to [e-mail] and Tony would like some more folks for our FIFA 09 league so send Ghost World a messsage on Xbox Live.