Richard A. Lewis

Richard A. Lewis (born January 11, 1980), also known as “Dr. Gonzo” on some of the websites he has worked for (a clear nod to Hunter S. Thompson), is an e-sports & gaming journalist in the United Kingdom.
Background & Career
Starting out as a freelance writer he worked for numerous publications and written about a variety of subjects prior to his stint writing about gaming. He edited the little known 1822 Magazine for three years, a Welsh satirical magazine published by Lampeter university where he studied under and struck up a close friendship with playwright Dic Edwards. In addition to this he also worked briefly with The Guardian and BBC radio.
After contributing several pieces to the UK’s leading Counter-Strike website, Source Junky, he found himself nominated for the Electronic Sports League best scene journalist of the year award in 2007, mainly in recognition of hi “Perceptions” series of articles. It was a work he described as a “critical dissertation of the UK and European Counter-Strike scenes”.
His work has appeared on most major e-sports websites across Europe and he has worked for many major gaming organisations including the first international professional gaming league, the Championship Gaming Series, as a volunteer writer.
After being removed from his CGS position, he began working for Omega Sektor, the UK’s largest LAN centre , where he was in charge of press and promotions. By the time of his arrival the centre was already in severe financial difficulty and was losing money at an alarming rate. Despite his best efforts he once again found himself unemployed when the centre went bust. He later provided a full account of the flawed business model in his article “The Collapse of Omega Sektor: A View From Ground Zero”.
Still contributing regular written work to online publications he found himself shortlisted once again for the ESL e-sports Award for best scene journalist in 2008 , this time with his piece entitled “The Superfly Swindle: A Savage Tale of Counter-Strike Fraud” that was published on GotFrag.
After a short spell in charge of European coverage at the GotFrag website, he was approached by Cadred - now owned by Heaven Media - and asked to write full time for them. His weekly e-sports and gaming column, entitled Gonzorreah, went on to become one of the longest running weekly e-sports columns and covered a wide variety of subjects. It was this contribution, proving to be the most popular running column in the site’s history, that earned him a full time position as Content Editor.
In 2009 his installment entitled “The 500k Slap” , detailing how one team was robbed of the chance of being drafted into the Championship Gaming Series following some serious infighting, was again nominated for an ESL e-sports award , but he lost out this time around to his then editor-in-chief, Corin Cole, who won for his account of why the CGS collapsed.
By now Richard started to do cross-site work for other Heaven Media publications, including Gaming Heaven. In February 2010 he was made Lead Games Reviewer for Gaming Heaven and also made a return to doing promotional work in front of the camera with for Napoleon: Total War . He has since dropped the name “Gonzo” now writing solely under Richard Lewis and stopped writing Gonzorreah , instead electing to write something with broader appeal. His new weekly column is called “The Gamer” and began on the 9th March 2010.
Outside of gaming he is a founder member of the Blue City Project, a collective of musicians, poets, writers and singers designed to help talent local to Birmingham.

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