Summary: Yes friends, three years ago G*M*S Magazine started as a means to write my own reviews and stir up some interest in games, as well as get new games to write the reviews of. As it turned out, I didn’t get anywhere as many games as I thought I would, I got more reviews than I thought I could and the website became bigger than I ever thought possible. The help of wonderful people like Megan Robertson, Thilo “Endzeitgeist” Graf, Kim Moser, Peter Ruth IIand many others have, in no small measure, turned this website into what you see today, and helped it grow much further and faster than I thought possible. Today G*M*S Magazine is a part time unpaid job that takes a huge amount of effort to keep up. And I wouldn’t change a second of the time I’ve spent on it. To celebrate, we have a rather huge giveaway. If you don’t follow us on Facebook or Twitter already, this is the time, as the items will be given away during the next few days in either platform. The items are as follow: A copy of Sarah Newton’s Mindjammer novel, signed by Sarah herselfFour copies of Goblins Drool – Fairies RuleTwo copies of the Goblins Drool– Fairies Rule Puzzle from KickstarterOne copy of Albino Dragon’s Ace of SpiesOne copy of Cheapass GamesUnexploded CowA set of Rory Story CubesOne copy of Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress by Shelly MazzanobleOne copy of The Nazi Occult by Kenneth HiteThree copies of Journeys to the West by Christina StylesSix copies of Shadows of Esteren: Prologue 0Two copies of Shadows of Esteren: CluesTwo copies of Shadows of Esteren: ArtworkTwo copies of Shadows of Esteren: Characters And that is not all. I am really proud and excited to announce our first short fiction writing competition that will take place until the 31st of October. Calling all short-story writers out there! G*M*S Magazine, in partnership with The Creativity Hub, is calling on writers to submit short stories for their first fiction-writing charity competition. The competition is open to writers of any age, experience or part of the world, and entries will be accepted between the 21st of July and 31st October 2013. So what do you have to do? This is the magic formula: Rory Story Cubes + Lovecraft + Strange places = Your short story. Take any and/or every set of Rory Story Cubes, whether the physical dice or the apps, and roll them a many times as you need to get the inspiration for your story. Take a photograph, or a screen-grab of the roll you'll be using, without that photo or screen grab, we can't accept your entry! Then write a story with Lovecraftian tones and a weird place. It can be a horror story, an adventure, a romance, set in the past, in the present, in the future... Your story! Make it short! No more than 2000 words. Submit your story and the photograph with a pseudonym. This competition is open to writers of any experience level, so professionals are just as welcome as first times. However, to make things levelled for everyone, the panel of judges (still to be announced) will not know who's who, so their assessment will be impartial. Your story will be uploaded to the G*M*S Magazine website where people will be able to vote for it. The stories that gather the most votes will be the finalists. You can rally your friends and family to vote if you wish. At the start of December, the voting will stop and the 25 entries with the most votes will become the finalists. The panel of judges will then select the winner. So what is the charity thing? The stories selected as finalists will be turned into a book that will go to Kickstarter to be funded for layout, printing and artwork. It will be a one-off. The overall winner, as selected by the judges, will choose a charity. All the profit made from the Kickstarter project will go to that charity. That is correct. None of the organisers or judges get paid to do this. The onl
