"Considering its subject, Video Game Art is surprisingly thick with text. That's because it's the brainchild of a novelist, 28-year-old Nic Kelman, who strives to make the case for this ever expanding genre as a genuine art form, drawing analogies to film, myth, and literary epics. Even for the gaming averse, though, a flip through these pages is revelatory, suggesting the sheer range of intricate dream-scapes and brain-tickling phantasms buried amid the clichéd ghouls and fembots."

- Joy Press writing for The Village Voice

"As Nic Kelman's fascinating book reveals with page after page of beautiful illustrations...today's titles are painstakingly designed to give players a visceral experience. So the faceless Master Chief is a descendent of Sergio Leone's Man With No Name? Pass the controller - you had us at Halo."

- Andrew Clevenger writing for Entertainment Weekly