''Fun Inc'' is a book first published in January 2010 by

Tom Chatfield Tom Chatfield (born 1980) is a British author, broadcaster and tech philosopher. Biography Chatfield took his BA, MPhil and doctorate degrees and taught at St John's College, Oxford, before beginning work as a writer and editor. His first bo ...

, examining

video game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device to generate visual feedback. This fee ...

s in terms of their cultural status, potentials as a medium and as a business. It addresses popular concerns such as the debate over violence in games, as well as the questions of games as art, as one of the most fundamental of human cultural activities, and as a potentially transforming force in the social sciences, economics and 21st century life. The UK edition is published by Virgin Books () while the US edition is published by Pegasus Books ().

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''authors@Google''
Tom Chatfield's lecture at Google on games as learning engines
''Review''
for the ''Guardian'' newspaper by

Steven Poole Steven Poole (born 1972) is a British author and journalist. He particularly concerns himself with the abuse of language and has written two books on the subject: ''Unspeak'' (2006) and ''Who Touched Base In My Thought Shower?'' (2013). Biograph ...

''Review''
for the ''Observer'' newspaper by

Naomi Alderman Naomi Alderman (born 1974) is an English novelist and game writer. She is best known for her speculative science fiction novel ''The Power (2016 novel), The Power'', which won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017. Biography Alderman was bor ...

''Tom Chatfield's website''
featuring a selection of his articles and material from ''Fun Inc'' 2010 non-fiction books Books about video games {{videogame-book-stub

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