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…
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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…
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…