 The video game "Gears of War 2", the first version of which Bissell wrote about for "The New Yorker", contains a character named Hank Bissell, an apparent nod to him.In a March 2010 "Observer" article, he wrote about the appeal of games like "Grand Theft Auto IV" and his own simultaneous struggles with addiction to video games and cocaine.Bissell wrote about the cult film "The Room" in a 2010 article ("Cinema Crudité") published in "Harper's Magazine".