Tom Chatfield, Fun Inc.

[Dave Birch] Tom Chatfield is an author, editor, essayist, game theorist and sometime thinker; his book on the culture of video games, "Fun Inc.", is published by Virgin Books in the UK and Pegasus in the US. Tom has done design, writing and creative consultancy work for a number of online games and media companies, including Mind Candy, Grex, Red Glasses and Intervox, and speaks regularly on technology, media and gaming. His latest project involves writing and design work on a new game for the award-winning British games company Preloaded.

He is currently the arts and books editor at Prospect magazine, and writes widely in the national press, including for the Observer, Independent, Sunday Times, Wired, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement and Prospect.

By the way, I apologise unreservedly for my appalling hiccoughs during the interview - I tried everything to get rid of them!.

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