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At 12:32 AM on April 27th, 1986, HBO's movie dissolved into color bars and a message signed "Captain Midnight" — and one of America's biggest broadcasters discovered it couldn't take its own channel back.
At dinnertime on May 19th, 1998, ninety percent of America's pagers went silent at once. Doctors, hospitals, gas pumps — all waiting on one satellite, 22,000 miles up, whose brain had just died. Its backup? Dead too. And nobody knew.
One misplaced line of code shut down half of America's telephone network for nine hours. No hackers. No storm. Just a single "break" statement in the wrong place, and a recovery message that spread like a disease.
Britain has a Victorian waterworks in Nottingham that fires up its original 1880s James Watt beam engines, opens the underground reservoir, and once a year lets the Steampunk community take…
Flying pirate ship. Steampunk floating islands. Ancient Gods who want you very, very dead. Turn-based tactical combat where one bad move ends the whole run. Oh, and Lovecraftian atmosphere baked…
Today is Nikola Tesla's birthday, which means the Punk calendar is already winning. But if you're anywhere near Jacksonville, Florida tonight, you've got exactly zero excuses not to be at…
Iron Crown Enterprises just dropped HARP Steampunk, a new sourcebook by veteran designer Phil Masters (yes, the same Phil Masters who wrote GURPS Steampunk and GURPS Castle Falkenstein, so the…
Twenty editions. Twenty. The Romans would approve of the numerals, and so does the Doctor. Whitby Steampunk Weekend XX descends on Whitby, North Yorkshire, July 24-26, 2026, turning the seaside…
Samurai. Yōkai. And a British trade conglomerate rolling in with steam-powered war machines to "help" everyone modernize. Shadow of the Road is a turn-based tactical RPG from Another Angle Games…
Somewhere in an alternate 1940s, Abraham Lincoln survives, the Reconstruction goes differently, and battleships take to the skies on the back of bold leaps in electricity, magnetism, and gravity. That…
