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Steampunk, a genre quickly surpassed by its sibling genre, cyberpunk, is an undeniably fantastic setting for game worlds, somehow attracting more game developers into its ranks than it does any other ...

Of all the design aesthetics that have ebbed and flowed over the years, few generate the reaction of steampunk. Many people identify it as an unfortunate outgrowth of the hippie era, and indeed that's ...

The hoverboard, one of the teen crazes of the last decade, is both a marvel of technology and a source of hacker parts that ...

The steampunk culture has something magic about it, but pinpointing exactly what makes people turn their heads for these artifacts still eludes me. In a way, it might be the very same thing which ...

Anyway, there certainly does seem to be quite a bit of it around. Enough, at least, to get on the nerves of Scottish novelist Charlie Stross, who considers the genre, well, offensively ahistorical and ...

They Will Come is a new steampunk horror adventure puzzle title in the works, aiming to be released on PC via Steam sometime in 2026 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I mean business about science fiction and geek culture. According to an IBM press release, “’Steampunk,’ a sub-genre inspired by ...

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