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Tom Chick, Sept. 2006
Tom Chick, Sept. 2006

Tom W. Chick (b. 1966) is an American television and movie actor, and games journalist. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works His most prolific TV roles were as Oscar's lover Gil in the US version of The Office and the hard-hitting reporter Gordon in The West Wing. As a writer, his most notable columns are the "Shoot Club" series hosted on his own website, and game reviews in magazines such as Computer Gaming World. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Computer Gaming World ( CGW) was founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication

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Biography

Chick attended Harvard Divinity School and received a Masters of Theological Studies[1] with a focus on the Old Testament. Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge Massachusetts, in the United States. In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. Deciding not to pursue the ministry, he later moved to Hollywood, California where he currently resides and pursues a career in writing about video games and occasionally acting for television roles. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Acting is the work of an Actor or Actress, which is a person in Theatre, Television, Film, or any other Storytelling Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic He is also the co-founder and administrator of a web-based site for games discussion, Quarter To Three. [2]

Writing career

Chick is an independent journalist whose columns on video games have appeared online and in print. As a freelance columnist, he has written for a number of sites, including Firing Squad[3] Yahoo Games[4], Gamespy[5], Xtreme Gamer[6], 1Up[7], Rotten Tomatoes[8] and others. A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer GameSpy, also known as GameSpy Industries, is a division of IGN Entertainment, which operates a network of game websites and provides online video game-related Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies. His articles have also appeared in magazines such as the "Tom vs. Bruce" series in Computer Gaming World, and he was listed as "one of the field's rare American practitioners" in an article on "New Games Journalism" in the New York Times[9]. Computer Gaming World ( CGW) was founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication

In May 2008, He partnered with the Sci-Fi Channel as Editor in chief of a new co-branded gaming blog, entitled Fidgit. MAY ( also known as: Mei メイ 메이 is a Korean singer well known in South Korea for singing the song "Miracle" 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common A publication's editor in chief is its Primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of

Chick's reviews are no stranger to controversy as he has been an outspoken critic of what he calls the "7-9 rating scale" at some game review sites[10], and due to occasional game reviews which were widely considered to be different from the main, such as his harshly critical review of Deus Ex of which he said "I'd say it's only 90% bad. Deus Ex (abbreviated DX and pronounced as ˌdeɪəsˈɛks day-uss ex) is a Cyberpunk -themed Action role-playing game developed " in a June 2000 review[11].

He has also collaborated on other games journalism projects, such as a podcast with independent games developer Brad Wardell hosted at PowerUser.TV. A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download Bradley R Wardell (born 24 June, 1971 in Texas) commonly known as Brad Wardell, is an American businessman and programmer residing

Acting career

Tom Chick as Gordon in The West Wing
Tom Chick as Gordon in The West Wing

Chick's most successful television acting engagement was a recurring role as reporter Gordon in nine episodes of The West Wing. He also played Oscar's homosexual lover Gil in The Office, and Mario in The Nine. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. The Nine was a short-lived American television Serial drama that premiered October 4, 2006, on ABC, in the 10 o'clock (Eastern

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Quarter To Three Post by Tom Chick. January 25, 2007.
  2. ^ As of 31 May 2008, the site has 7,010 registered members, with 1,709 of them having posted more than 5 times. Over half the registered membership has never posted a single message. (membership listing)
  3. ^ Firing Squad Tom Chick's profile page.
  4. ^ Yahoo Games List of contributors.
  5. ^ Painkiller review. Gamespy. com. April 2004.
  6. ^ Bully review. Bully, also known as Canis Canem Edit in the UK which is ( Latin for "dog eat dog" for the PAL PlayStation 2 Xtreme-Gamer. com. October 2006.
  7. ^ Sword of the Stars review. Sword of the Stars is a Space 4X game by independent developer Kerberos Productions. 1Up. com. September 2006.
  8. ^ Rotten Tomatoes Tom Chick's review listing
  9. ^ Wallace, Mark. "Notes on Halo". New York Times. April 3, 2005.
  10. ^ 1Up.com. Andrew Pfister, editor. November 2006.
  11. ^ archive.org. Retrieved January 18, 2007.

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