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.

Edge Magazine said of the book, "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.

"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.

Difficult questions about Videogames is Available now at www.publicbeta.org.