Fun Inc is a book first published in January 2010 by Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield is a British author, and game and technology theorist.-Biography:Chatfield took a doctorate and taught at St John's College, Oxford, and has subsequently written for publications including The Independent, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times, the New...

, examining videogames 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 (ISBN 0-7535-1985-2) while the US edition is published by Pegasus Books (ISBN 1-60598-143-5).

External links

• authors@Google Tom Chatfield's lecture at Google on games as learning engines
• Review for the Guardian newspaper by Steven Poole
  Steven Poole
  -Biography:Poole studied English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and has subsequently written for publications including The Independent, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times, and the New Statesman...
  
  
• Review for the Observer newspaper by Naomi Alderman
  Naomi Alderman
  Naomi Alderman is a British author and novelist.- Biography :Alderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist...
  
  
• Tom Chatfield's website featuring a selection of his articles and material from Fun Inc