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What might have been! Concept artist Charlie Wen went through several designs before settling on God of War’s distinctive protagonist, as revealed by a stash of concept art.

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Ninja Theory’s Alessandro Tain is set to reprise his art director role on the reboot of the Devil May Cry series, transitioning from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West’s colourful post-apocalypse to DmC’s shabby metropolises.

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The debate on whether or not games are art will never end. BioWare head Ray Muzyka knows which side of the fence he’s on.

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Film critic Roger Ebert has u-turned on his assertion that games can never be “art” – after 4,500 comments on his article claimed otherwise.

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Remember the mysterious “non-game” art image for Assassin’s Creed that popped up thanks to Twitter earlier in the month?

Well, guess what? It’s for an artbook, unsurprisingly.

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Those that live in DC, near the US capital or who just fancy a road trip, will be pleased to know that the Smithsonian American Art Museum plans to host an Art of Video Games exhibit.

The game-themed showcase will “show the development of visual effects and aesthetics during four decades” of vidoegames.

Neato.

Bad news though – it won’t hit the museum until 2012. The world ends that year, ya know.

More through Joystiq.

SXSW may not be the best for games news, but at least the Texan festival’s got some pretty pictures to look at.

ESA’s Michael Gallagher has said he’s excited about the Into The Pixel art exhibit his organization and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences co-curate at the event.

“We’re excited to bring Into the Pixel here to SXSW, because this is one of the premier art shows in the country”, he said. “Video games are art. Without a doubt… look at the creative energy. It belongs here with film, it belongs here with music.”

Going on about game as art, Gallagher said that the first thing people notice about a game is graphics, which are all rendered artistically.

“I think graphics are one of the powerful components that draw people in”, he added.

More through the link.

On IGN, and there’s quite a lot of it. Should keep you in wallpapers for the next week, anyway.

Microsoft just put out a ton of Gears of War 2 art, which means you have to look at it. Obviously. After the link. There are images there of Dom’s wife, the new COG characters, a locust grenade and some lovely renders of brumarks and new locusts. See now.

In case you missed them, Epic also release five new shots from the game’s Campaign today. Do very much want. Take a look.

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Couple of new bits of art on the official Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe site, showing a busted up city and a fighting arena being watched over by a huge red skull. Good to see the franchise growing up. The new images are in the “download art” section.

After the link. All the art you could ever want from Tecmo’s upcoming super-slasher. That’s all there is to say. The game’s out on June 6 for 360 only.

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On Destructoid. Very nice stuff. If Faith isn’t the gaming “intelligentsia” darling of 2008, we’re Dutch. And we’re not. Go have a look.

Mirror’s Edge releases on PC, 360 and PS3 towards the end of the year.

Here. Loads of good stuff on there. The Wii version of Clover’s adventure is launching in Europe in June. Capcom said on its official blog that the company “wanted to find a special way to thank all the vocal Okami fans that encouraged us to take a second shot at success with this title.”

Go see.

Because there’s nothing else going on. Have a look at some lovely bits of God War art while you want for someone to announce something. It’s better than eating chocolate all day.

Writing on Gamasutra, EA producer Jim Preston has advised those bickering over whether or not games are art to realise they’ve missed the point and, essentially, get over it.

“To think that there is a single, generally agreed upon concept of art is to get it precisely backwards,” said Preston. “Americans’ attitude towards art is profoundly divided, disjointed and confused; and my message to gamers is to simply ignore the ‘is-it-art?’ debate altogether. Note, however, that I am not saying anything about art per se, or anything about art in any other culture. Rather, I would like to suggest that the US’s constant influx of immigrants, exiles, and refugees has led to a current artistic landscape that is so widely varied that the ‘is-it-art?’ debate is almost meaningless.”

Check it out. Beats working on a Tuesday morning.

Which means our French development and publishing cousins are about to get lovely tax breaks for being involved in gaming. Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot, for one, is a very happy bunny.

“This case is 4 years old,” he said in this excellent Gamasutra piece. “It’s not new, but now that the European Commission did give its green light we need the French government to fully be behind it to accelerate and validate the process now.” Fundamentally, this decision authorizes France to apply a 20% tax credit to support video game production (with a 3 million euro limit per studio and per year).

Lucky France. Well worth a read, that.