MOMA Mia! Plans for beefy video game collection next year

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Video games struggle to be taken as seriously as films or paintings or books or other pieces of culturally accepted works of art. Yeah, thanks Duke Nukem. But there are signs of change; today, New York's prestigious Museum of Modern Art announced the beginnings of a considerable video game exhibition.
A fledgling list of 14 games will be exhibited (in varying ways depending on game content) in the museum's Phillip Johnson's Galleries from March 2013. But MOMA has plans for that number to grow to 40, all things permitting.
Among the initial list are surprising (to me, at least) entries such as Eve Online, Dwarf Fortress and Portal. Katamari Damacy's in there and so are indie darlings Canabalt (one of our games of 2009) and Passage (the game made by The Castle Doctrine's Jason Rohrer). The usual suspects Pac-Man and Tetris are in there n' all.
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