Time Without Tide
Chaosium, the house that gave us Call of Cthulhu and a respectable body count of player characters, just announced a brand-new tabletop RPG: Time Without Tide. The setting is a…
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Thelomeris: City of Time
Somewhere between 2008 and the heat death of the universe, Hungarian director Balazs Hatvani has been building Thelomeris: a city of cogwheels and clocks where the citizens exist solely to…
Chicago Steampunk Exposition 2026: Gail Carriger Edition
The Chicago Steampunk Exposition is back, and this year they pulled off something that earns them a genuine high-5 from the Doctor: they got Gail Carriger on the guest roster…
Frostpunk RPG: Core Rulebook
Catalyst Game Labs just dropped the Frostpunk RPG: Core Rulebook into retail this week, and yes, the Formulae approves. The video game already nailed the SteamPunk-survival-city-building sweet spot (coal-fired generators…
Clockwork Revolution Gets Its Xbox Showcase 2026 Trailer
inXile Entertainment just dropped a new Clockwork Revolution trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, and the Doctor approves. We're talking a first-person steampunk RPG set in Avalon, a Victorian…
Key City Steampunk: Worlds of Tomorrow
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is already a place where the past refuses to stay dead. So naturally, that's where the Key City Steampunk Convention has set up shop, and this year they…
TeslaCon Goes to Oz
Gentle reader, I have been informed that TeslaCon, North America's largest immersive SteamPunk convention, has chosen its 2026 theme, and that theme is The Wonderful Land of Oz. November 12-15…
Rogue Makers and Air Pirates: The Only Convention Briefing You Need
The good people at Clockwork Alchemy have declared their 2026 theme and it is, frankly, exactly what the Formula ordered: Rogue Makers & Air Pirates. October 16-18, Redwood City, California…
Someone Applied my Formula to a NES and I Owe Them a High-5
The Formula works on hardware. We have proof. ACEMAGIC took one look at the original 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System, nodded slowly, and stuffed an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370…
Commodore Made a Flip Phone That Blocks the Internet and I Have Feelings
The Commodore Callback 8020 is a flip phone. A FLIP PHONE. With a T9 keypad, a dome LED that glows instead of screaming notifications at you, and SID chiptune ringtones…