Tom Chick - Writing Career

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, Yahoo Games, Gamespy, GameSpot, Xtreme Gamer, 1Up, Rotten Tomatoes and others. 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.

In May 2008, He partnered with the Sci-Fi Channel as Editor in chief of a new co-branded gaming blog, entitled Fidgit.

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, 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." in a June 2000 review.

He has also collaborated on other games journalism projects, such as a podcast with independent games developer Brad Wardell hosted at the now-defunct PowerUser.TV. He is now a regular panelist on the strategy game themed podcast Three Moves Ahead with colleagues Troy Goodfellow, Julian Murdoch, Rob Zacny and old collaborator Dr. Bruce Geryk. He also appeared in Joystiq Podcast number 114 which was released on October 23, 2009. After a successful kick-starter campaign, Tom Chick and Dr. Bruce Geryk brought back their popular gaming column, Tom vs Bruce in an online format.