From the archives

2026

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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…

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 Guild: Ren Faire’d

Felicia Day just did something the internet desperately needed: she brought back The Guild. Not a reboot, not a remake, not a soulless streaming-service cash-grab. A fan-funded reunion movie, titled…