The important news here is that video games are surpassing other forms of entertainment. It is evidence of the disconnect between the media, politics and actual society: every other month you get discussions about video games causing violence and calls for legal restrictions. Compare this to movies, where you can produce the most violent splatter horror trash and nobody will bat an eye.
Meanwhile, people are validating games as the work of art they are with hard dollars.
I agree that art takes care of itself. As much as I believe that some video games are works of art, I could not care less if there is nobody else in world that agrees with me.
Not that I've seen. They went from the "the Columbine kids played Doom which is why they killed those people" more recently to "Guns kill people; We must get rid of guns", but even that is no longer in the news. The latest in the news is that conservatives want to shutdown the government and make poor people die without health care. But nothing about games.
If they want bad publicity to help sell it, they'll need to have something like beastiality with a donkey hidden deep in the game somewhere.
Meanwhile, people are validating games as the work of art they are with hard dollars.