The Machine That Said It Was Impossible
Between 1985 and 1987, a machine built to treat cancer delivered massive radiation overdoses to six patients across North America. Three of them died.
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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…
Colfax Railroad Days
Tomorrow, September 12th, downtown Colfax, California transforms into a living SteamPunk postcard, and it's completely free. Colfax Railroad Days 2026 celebrates the town's pivotal role as the primary supply terminus…
Clockwork Revolution
inXile Entertainment (the same mad geniuses behind Wasteland and Torment) have been building Clockwork Revolution long enough that I started to wonder if Lady Ironwood had used the Chronometer to…
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam
The Magnanimous and Beneficent Dr. Warthan hereby raises a brass monocle to Level-5, because Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is still happening, and it is still set…
Fox Valley Steampunk Festival
This Saturday, September 12, at the Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin, Illinois: the Fox Valley Steampunk Festival runs 11am to 5pm along the scenic banks of the Fox…
The Tower That Told No One
In the summer of 1978, the engineer who designed a brand-new Manhattan skyscraper sat down to do a piece of arithmetic nobody had asked him to do. The building was finished. It was occupied. And the answer said it could be brought down by a storm New York could expect roughly every sixteen years.
Dystopian Wars: The Imperium Arrives
Warcradle Studios has been steadily rolling out factions for the new edition of Dystopian Wars, their alternate-late-19th-century naval wargame, and this month the Kaiser sends his regards: the Imperium hits…