Just when you thought the Roger Ebert controversy had played itself out, horror master Clive Barker has taken another shot at the longtime film critic.

As you probably know, Ebert started a fire among gamers and some in the industry when he said that video games could never be considered art. During the Hollywood and Games Summit earlier this year, Barker took up Ebert's claims and shortly thereafter Ebert issued a response to Barker, while also clarifying his earlier comments.

It's been a couple months since then, but now Barker is back at it. Speaking to Scott Steinberg (author of Get Rich Playing Games) on the latest Digital Trends podcast, Barker said, "[Ebert's] a pompous, arrogant old man, and he's not going to stop us from making games or enjoying them or... making them art."

Interestingly, Barker said earlier in the podcast that he had taken the time to craft a rather nasty letter to send to Ebert � something that he said he took up after his own father's expertise in letter writing � but in the end Barker decided to tear it up after learning of Ebert's illness. (Ebert has suffered with cancer, which spread and required multiple surgeries, including a tracheostomy.)

Regarding the whole "games as art" debate, Barker said he feels that video games have the potential to take us "everywhere � the same places all art can take us."

He continued, "If you walk into the National Gallery in London, you are presented with masterpieces of impressionism and glorious Dutch miniatures and so on... countless styles and forms of genius represented. One day it'll be like that for games... and we will be looking at these things the way we look at the great animated cartoons of Disney."

The complete podcast discusses Barker's involvement in Jericho, working with Codemasters, the horror genre and more.