Weekend at the Asylum 16
Nine days. That is how long you have before Weekend at the Asylum 16 kicks off in the Historic Quarter of Lincoln, U.K. (August 28-31), and if you are not…
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August 2026
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LAcon V
Worldcon is nine days out. LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, descends on the Anaheim Convention Center August 27-31, 2026, and the Hugo Awards ceremony hits the stage…
Chrono CCG
Chrono CCG is a free-to-play digital card game where rival time-traveling syndicates beat each other senseless across unraveling timelines, fighting to rewrite history itself. Your agents Immortalize mid-match, ascending to…
Steampunk Festival: Coldwater, Ontario
August isn't done with us yet. The Steampunk Explorer's North America calendar shows a steampunk festival dropping in Coldwater, Ontario on August 29, and then the whole thing turns into…
Daggerbound
T. Kingfisher drops Daggerbound on August 25, and if you have not yet met the gnole-and-enchanted-sword corner of her "World of the White Rat," I have only one question: what…
Hornsea Museum Steampunk Day
Tomorrow, August 15th, the Hornsea Museum in East Yorkshire gets the full Formulae treatment: Victoriana, steam, gears, and presumably at least one person in goggles explaining how their ray gun…
Castle of Alchemists
A two-person team (Team Machiavelli, published by IndieArk) built a steampunk action-RPG tower-defense hybrid and somehow made it Very Positive on Steam with over 600 reviews. You play Bellator: an…
TeslaCon Goes to Oz
You heard correctly. TeslaCon, North America's largest immersion SteamPunk convention, is dragging us all to the Wonderful Land of Oz this November. November 12-15, 2026, Madison Marriott West in Middleton…
Syberia Remastered
The Doctor does not play puzzle-adventure games because they are "relaxing." The Doctor plays them because there is something deeply satisfying about a clockpunk automaton named Oscar following you across…
Time Without Tide: Mirth & Misery in the World of Fog
Chaosium, the house that built Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and Pendragon, has not launched an original IP in thirty years. They just ended that streak. Time Without Tide: Mirth &…