San Francisco Historium Spotlight
The people behind the Great Dickens Christmas Fair have gone and done it again: they're turning Pier 35 on the Embarcadero into an 1849 Gold Rush settlement for two days…
The Formulae
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One Angry Salesman Hijacked HBO From His Backyard
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.
One Satellite Failed and 45 Million Pagers Went Silent
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 Line of Code Killed America’s Phone Network
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.
Papplewick Pumping Station Steampunk Weekend X
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…
Dead Weight
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…
Nemo’s Steampunk Gala
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…
HARP Steampunk
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…
Whitby Steampunk Weekend XX
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…
Shadow of the Road
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…