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…
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August 2026
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Ariane 5: The Number That Would Not Fit
On 4 June 1996, Europe's brand-new Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from Kourou carrying four scientific satellites and ten years of work. Thirty seconds later it tore itself apart over a mangrove swamp.
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 &…
Castle in the Stars: The Universe in 1875
Napoleon III's aetherships dueling the British Empire over Venus. Germans colonizing Mars. The moons of Jupiter, unclaimed and up for grabs. That's not a geopolitical fever dream — that's the…
Raypunk Is Not AtomicPunk: A Correction
The internet keeps mashing these two together, and the Doctor has had enough. AtomicPunk is the dark side of the atom: duck-and-cover drills, fallout shelters in the backyard, the mushroom…
Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0
The street finds its own uses for things, and apparently the street also finds its own uses for rules systems. Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0 just went fully funded on Kickstarter, courtesy…
Clockwork Revolution
The Magnanimous and Beneficent Doctor has been watching inXile Entertainment's Clockwork Revolution with the patient intensity of a man who has literally survived the end of the world via alchemical…
The 2003 Blackout: The Alarm That Never Rang
On August 14, 2003, fifty million people from Detroit to New York City lost power in the largest blackout in North American history. There was no bomb. No attack. No mastermind. Just a hot afternoon, a few untrimmed trees, and a control-room alarm that quietly stopped ringing — and never told anyone it had.