The team at London’s Gosh! store were super impressed with A Profound Waste of Time Magazine (APWOT) when they first stocked the computer game covering publication last year.
“Intelligently written and lavishly illustrated (often by some of the world’s best cartoonists) it’s a real feast, far from a waste of your time,” they enthuse.
Tonight, Friday 8th November 2024, to celebrate the new issue and mark the launch of their next Kickstarter for Issue 5, Gosh! will be hosting a launch party at their shop, from 7.00 – 9.00pm.
A Profound Waste of Time is an award winning independent magazine that celebrates games as an art form. Each issue plays host to a rich variety of voices from inside and outside the videogame industry, interwoven with stunning bespoke imagery from leading illustrators and artists.
Editorially discerning and beautifully designed, the magazine serves to celebrate gaming culture and discussion.
Head to Gosh!, hang out with other gamers and cartoonists and pick up the latest issue tonight.
AWWOT 5 will include features such as Margaret Robertson interviewing Unicorn Overlord’s director, Takafumi Noma, and lead game designer Wataru Nakanishi about how their game’s recent success crowns several decades of interesting work by its developer, VanillaWare; and Simon Parkin speaks to Yoot Saito about the evolution and development of the beloved and iconic Dreamcast cult classic Seaman.
Kat Bailey investigates the development of the revolutionary RPGs Suikoden and Suikoden II, and the legacy of their designer, the late Yoshitaka Murayama; and Ellie Gibson recounts the story of how she became the PowerWash Simulator Guinness World Champion, and the strange allure of the videogame World Record.
• Gosh! APWOT 4 Launch Party 7.00 – 9.00om Friday 8th November, Gosh! 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR
• Keep up to date with all news over on the Gosh! Facebook event page
• Check out the Kickstarter for APWOT 5 here
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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