'Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research ... The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - not including consoles or devices - was $40 billion, comfortably outstripping the movie business. In the same year, Nintendo's employees were more profitable per head than Google's. The sheer pervasiveness of game experience - 99 per cent ...
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'Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research ... The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - not including consoles or devices - was $40 billion, comfortably outstripping the movie business. In the same year, Nintendo's employees were more profitable per head than Google's. The sheer pervasiveness of game experience - 99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game - means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. In fact, as Fun Inc. elegantly explains, computer game-playing has a very strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry.' Independent
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Very Good. The sheer pervasiveness of game experience-99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game-means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. This book shows that computer game-playing has a strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: KNSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. 2011. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of Fun Inc. : Why Games Are the 21st Century's Most to cart. $46.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Virgin Books.
