Nobi Nobi Steampunk
Someone in France just shipped a cozy, pocket-sized steampunk RPG in a box and I'm unreasonably pleased about it. Nobi Nobi Steampunk is one of two new adventure settings (the…
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2026
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Dieselpunk 1921: The Quickstart
A one-person dev named BrandonWritesGames has been grinding on Dieselpunk 1921 for nearly a year, logging hundreds of hours of collage-making, and he's almost across the finish line. To prove…
Diesel Knights
Someone finally did it. Someone looked at the grease-stained, rivet-popped glory of alt-history dieselpunk, strapped it to a mech, handed that mech a machine gun, and said: "yes, parkour." Diesel…
The Machine Said Five Missiles Were Coming. One Man Said No.
Just past midnight on September 26th, 1983 — three weeks after the Soviets shot down a passenger airliner, with the Cold War at its coldest — a computer screen in a secret bunker lit up with one word: LAUNCH. Then another. Five American missiles, it said. Confidence: certainty. The duty officer had minutes, no second opinion, and one doubt.
2026 ENNIE Award Voting Is Open
The nominees for the 2026 ENNIE Awards have been announced, and voting is open RIGHT NOW. Go cast your ballot. Winners get announced at Gen Con in Indianapolis at the…
Delta H Con: Steampunk Ball with Voltaire
Houston, your weekend orders have arrived. Delta H Con 2026 is on the ground right now, July 17 through 19 at the Marriott Westchase, and it has a dedicated Steampunk…
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
Two guys. One enormous dieselpunk spider-turret. A 1920s Castillian monarchy held together with hydraulic grease and bad decisions. IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator just became the number-one most wishlisted game…
Summer, Processed Through the Formulae
It is July 16. The sun is a diesel-powered furnace welded directly above your skull by a malevolent engineer who clearly never had to work outdoors. Heat indexes are lying…
Duskfade
The Clockpunk genre has a problem, and that problem is that most Clockpunk games look like someone put a gear decal on a generic fantasy RPG and called it a…
San Francisco Historium Spotlight
The people behind the Great Dickens Christmas Fair have gone and done it again: they're turning Pier 35 on the Embarcadero into an 1849 Gold Rush settlement for two days…