Does Swansea get a bad rap? Dylan Thomas backhandedly called it an "ugly, lovely town" a compliment that works when you're the long dead local poet more famous than the charmingly defiant city itself.

There are fewer and fewer spaces where people can come together, especially for free. Scotland's small press community has weathered chronic underfunding whilst watching local creative spaces vanish beneath spiralling costs. Convention tables that foster careers have become unaffordable, many of the stepping stones that turn hobbyists into professionals have simply ceased to exist.

Mad Lizard Games are preparing to launch the Kickstarter campaign for their latest game, Shards of Gods.

There’s a new warband at large in Spitewood, and they don’t take kindly to strangers.

Zero Strategy Games’ The Sheep has gambolled into its final fortnight on Kickstarter.

Cohors Cthulhu is now on general release from Modiphius.

Warlord Games have released a pair of new plastic Bolt Action kits: the Italian AB41/43 and the American Studebaker.

Bad Squiddo Games’ latest Kickstarter is now live and fully-funded.