San Francisco Historium Spotlight
The people behind the Great Dickens Christmas Fair spent two months building 46 period structures in a pair of Cow Palace warehouses, loaded the whole town onto eight semi-trucks, drove…
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Zairoo: The Pan-African Steampunk Fantasy TTRPG
Five kingdoms. Airborne dreadnoughts. Steam-powered weapons. Eldritch leviathans. A cosmology built from North, South, East, West, and Central African mythology. That is the world of Zairoo, and Molombo Thillia Thillot…
Weekend at the Asylum 16
Nine days. That is how long you have before Weekend at the Asylum 16 kicks off in the Historic Quarter of Lincoln, U.K. (August 28-31), and if you are not…
LAcon V
Worldcon is nine days out. LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, descends on the Anaheim Convention Center August 27-31, 2026, and the Hugo Awards ceremony hits the stage…
The Pentium Chip That Could Not Divide
In the autumn of 1994, a mathematics professor in Lynchburg, Virginia spent four months convinced he had made a mistake. He had checked his equations. He had rewritten his program. He had even found a genuine bug in his compiler — and it turned out to be innocent.
Chrono CCG
Chrono CCG is a free-to-play digital card game where rival time-traveling syndicates beat each other senseless across unraveling timelines, fighting to rewrite history itself. Your agents Immortalize mid-match, ascending to…
Steampunk Festival: Coldwater, Ontario
August isn't done with us yet. The Steampunk Explorer's North America calendar shows a steampunk festival dropping in Coldwater, Ontario on August 29, and then the whole thing turns into…
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…
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…