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The Two Languages That Lost a Mars Probe

On 23 September 1999, a NASA orbiter arrived at Mars after nine months and 400 million miles. Nothing aboard it was broken. Everything worked. It fired its engine on schedule, behaved impeccably — and passed behind the planet forty-nine seconds early.

Steam Powered Giraffe: Meet Toast

The robots are hiring again. Steam Powered Giraffe, San Diego's resident troupe of singing Victorian automatons, has commissioned a new unit: Toast, built 1896, rebuilt 2026, circus-style, plays flute, carries…

Key City Steampunk: Worlds of Tomorrow

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Home of one of the bloodiest battles in American history, a hotel restaurant literally called the 1863, and, apparently, the East Coast's best excuse to put on goggles…

Dieselpunk 1921

A free 125-page TTRPG rulebook just dropped on itch.io, and the Doctor is extremely here for it. Dieselpunk 1921 plants you in an alternate history where the shadow of the…

Steam Punk Festival: Aurora, Indiana

A brand-new steampunk festival just dropped on the map, ladies and gentlemen: Aurora, Indiana threw its first-ever Steam Punk Festival this past weekend, September 12-13, at Gabbard Riverfront Park on…

Cyberpunk TCG: Welcome to Night City

The beta events are happening right now, chooms. WeirdCo and CD PROJEKT RED launched the Official Cyberpunk Trading Card Game onto Kickstarter back in March and the internet promptly lost…

Veil of Ashes

Someone looked at Iron Harvest and Company of Heroes and said, "Yes, but what if we turned it up?" The result is Veil of Ashes, an incoming dieselpunk mecha RTS…