The new category will cover “all available media platforms such as the Internet, interactive and mobile technologies, [and] digital games…”

Also in Washington, the American Art Museum (pictured), part of the federally-funded Smithsonian Museum, will display a new exhibit entitled The Art of Video Games until 30 September. Curators say the exhibit will explore the 40-year evolution of video games, stressing their powerful visual effects and creative new technologies.

Neither development should impact a current video game case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which questions whether video games constitute an art form that falls under First Amendment free speech protection. A decision should be released this summer.

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