WHY are video games on this site?

Because you touch yourself at night.

Because there are actors in it stupid.

For the same reason the site lists the voice actors of animated shows, or movies like Tron (which, while mostly computer-generated, still has actors in it).

A number of games made in the early 90's - like the Myst series, 7th Guest, Wing Commander 3 & 4, Gabriel Knight 2, some of the Command and Conquer games, and so on - make use of FMV (Full-Motion Video) scenes, which require both actors and a film crew.

Games like the Grand Theft Auto series, on the other hand, use all computer-animation, but mesh that with voice-over work by famous actors (check the three most recent Grand Theft Auto games, and you'll be AMAZED by the actors in them). GTA is hardly the only game of that type - a lot of movie-licensed games are doing it (Enter the Matrix going so far as to use real scenes filmed with the real actors from the movies).

So yes, there are most CERTAINLY games that belong here. Granted, you probably shouldn't see Pac-Man or anything... but almost any game made after 1990 or so is fair game.


(Besides which, there are some games out there with better plots than many movies - there are some who would argue that the Knights of the Old Republic games have better plots than anything Lucas himself wrote in the last 20 years...)

As a student of film music who is particularly interested in soundtracks in video games, I find it quite helpful, especially when cross-referencing the two fields. So that's another reason.