Videogames Are Rubbish!

PublicBeta | PublicBeta have announced the release of their first videogame book publication Difficult Questions About Videogames, Iain Simons and James Newman have been asking difficult questions over the last eight months, questions such as, 'what is a videogame?' and 'How can you tell if a videogame is Rubbish?', 969 responses from the games industry, academia, and else where.

'So - be good to yourself. Order this book and have some fun thinking about games' - Difficult (but fun) Questions about Videogames

Buzzcut.com says:

"Public Beta has promised that this is simply a version 1 of an ongoing project. Add I hope that's the case. I'm ready to buy version 2, just to see what other people have to say about the same topic. In fact, my only criticism at this point is one unavoidable with a project such as this-give me more!"

-Buzzcut.com

EDGE Magazine says:

".....For an industry too often focused on the hardcore, Difficult Questions About Videogames demonstrates that videogame culture is already a much broader church than most give it credit for. Of course, there's still a long way to go, but with this book and its future plans for live events based around the concept, PublicBeta seems to be pushing all the right buttons...."

- EDGE

Publisher: Suppose Partners

(www.publicbeta.org)

Genre: Popular Culture

Release: 15th November 2004

RRP: £14.95 (free t-shirt offer)

About PublicBeta

PublicBeta is about creating brilliant live events, and publishing the best new material about videogames and videogame culture.

Whereas existing publications tend to focus on the Industry, the technology, simplistic consumer-facing value-judgements of game releases or impenetrable academic texts - PublicBeta aims to stimulate high-quality discussion to the end of developing a new, relevant critical language with which we can talk articulately about videogames, and videogaming culture.

Importantly, it does all of the above whilst remembering that games are first and foremost, fun.

About Difficult Questions About Videogames

365 pages. 969 responses. 71 contributors.

Difficult Questions About Videogames is a unique and vital document of the state of contemporary thinking and opinion on this most pervasive, important and misunderstood of popular cultural forms.

Never before have CEOs, developers, journalists, academics and (of course) players been brought together to sweat it out over the same difficult questions.

Their answers are radical, loving, conservative, funny, mundane, controversial and emotional - what binds them together is the commitment that these questions are worth answering, because games matter.

Difficult Questions About Videogames is Now Available.

For Further Information Please Contact:

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