Frankly, who gives a crab's pattie if video games are art or not? We don't. We care if they are insidiously getting into every nook and cranny of popular culture and weeding out the kind of arse that usually passes for "Pop". So, this is great news.
A song by a band from Bristol (that's Brizzle in England not some New Bristol in New England) called Area 11 has a song called Minecraft Christmas and it's only Number 52 in the UK song charts as compiled by officialdom. Check it out.