# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-bissell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:23:16.844Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-bissell"
name: "Tom Bissell"
slug: "tom-bissell"
description: "Tom Bissell is an American journalist, critic, and writer, best known for his extensive work as a writer of video games, including The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Battlefield Hardline, and Gears 5. His work has been adapted into films by Julia Loktev, Werner Herzog and James Franco."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Bissell_SDCC_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.79
  momentum:             3.271889400921659
  historical:           9.10368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2661978/"
    handle:    "nm2661978"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "توم بيسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توم بيسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%86%D9%85_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8E%D9%84"
    title: "تۆم بیسێل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bissell"
    title: "Tom Bissell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "تام بیسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bissell"
    title: "Tom Bissell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%B0_%EB%B9%84%EC%85%80"
    title: "톰 비셀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bissell"
    title: "Tom Bissell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Bissell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955912"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1642951"
    title: "Tom Bissell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump