Fun Inc.: Why Games Are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business

by Tom Chatfield

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753519453
• ISBN13: 9780753519455
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"