Category: Steampunk
Airship Academy steampunk computer game (news).
There’s a new steampunk fantasy computer game coming out from Steam in 2022 called Airship Academy which involves a nice bit of airship trading and fighting. I wonder when the Jackelian RAN expansion pack is coming out?
Iron Harvest steampunk/dieselpunk strategy game gets an American-themed expansion – Operation Eagle (game news).
If you like your real-time strategy games with a dieselpunk and steampunk twist, then you are going to like the new Operation Eagle DLC to expand your Iron Harvest RTS into a parallel reality where the USA is now involved in the great punch-up with steam-driven robots and diesel-punk killing machines. Relying heavily on mighty “Diesel Birds” […]
Shadow and Bone: constructing a Russian-themed steampunk world for Netflix (video).
Shadow and Bone – a new fantasy/steampunk TV series – is coming on April 23rd 2021 to Netflix, and this little mini-documentary explores how they went about constructing a Russian-themed steampunk world for the streaming service.
Brickpunk, the new steampunk range from Hornby (model kit news).
Hornby – best known for their model railways – is launching a new range of steampunk-themed brick model kits from their Bassett-Lowke sub-brand. Kind of like Lego, but without the royalties! The opening Brickpunk range include the Comet Horsebot, Gaussian Blimpoid, Scoundrel Tractoid, Arachnid Steam Walker, and Frenzy Horsebot. You can always take the pieces […]
The Nevers: HBO steampunk TV series (think: Victorian X-Men) (trailer and episode 1 review).
Here’s the latest trailer for HBO’s new TV series, The Nevers, which can best be described as a Victorian X-Men – or Wildcards, if you’re a George RR Martin fan. And if you want to know how that first episode of The Nevers went, then here’s Chris with his review of the premiere ep.
Shadow and Bone: new Netflix steampunk-fantasy TV series with a Russian twist (trailer).
Here’s the super-sized new trailer for the new Netflix steampunk-fantasy TV series with a Russian twist, Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels. Enter a fantasy war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her 19th century-like Russian-styled country […]
The Nevers: new HBO steampunk TV series (trailer).
Here’s the first full trailer for HBO’s new steampunk-flavoured TV series, The Nevers, with a bunch of Victorian women given super-powers by some fey magical gateway. Well, that isn’t going to end well, is it?
The Irregulars (new Netflix Sherlock-Lovecraft mashup TV series).
There’s a new Netflix Sherlock-Lovecraft mashup TV series on the way, called The Irregulars, streaming on March 26th 2021. This one features Sherlock’s raggamuffin army gang as they uncover a demonic conspiracy in Victorian London, working with a rather sinister Dr. Watson as they search for the doctor’s now missing partner, Sherlock Holmes.
The Nevers (HBO steampunk TV series: new trailer).
The Nevers will be streaming April 2021 on HBO Max. This new television series comes across like a Victorian version of George RR Martin’s Wildcards books, where an alien force arrives on Earth during the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign, sprinkling superpowers and making mutants of certain members of humanity – from the looks of it, mainly […]
Royal Mint launches illiterate HG Wells coin with four-legged Martian tripod (news).
The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man were the two HG Wells tomes chosen to celebrate the life of the original science fiction author by the Royal Mint for their new just released coin (along with a nod to the Time Machine with a little sun-dial detailing around the edges). However, the new […]
