Grand Steampunk Homes and Businesses Straight from the Alternate Past

While some fans of the steampunk aesthetic might reflect their love of brass and steam with their clothing, accessories, or a few well chosen household items, others take the look a bit farther, redesigning entire home, office, and business interiors to look like something from a nonexistent version of the Victorian…

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Bioshock Infinite: The Movie is already here for your viewing pleasure

Between the floating city of Columbia, the steampunk aesthetic and the evil robot George Washington Terminator, I imagine there's a lot of io9 readers interested in the new video game Bioshock Infinite. But playing video games is Kotaku's things, not ours. What to do? Well, how about we just watch the game's footage…

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Malcolm McDowell straps on a steampunk eyepatch for Cowboys & Engines

Pegging Hollywood's steampunk attempts a miserable failure, the crew behind Cowboys & Engines are gearing up to deliver the steampunk action movie you've always wanted. They've already rounded up an Olympic-level genre cast (Battlestar: Galactica's Richard Hatch and Star Trek's Walter Koenig) and today we're happy to…

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Batman and his Sexy, Steampunk and Occasionally Gender-Swapped DC…

It's picture day in steampunk Gotham City, and Batman brought his whole family to get their photos taken! He even took along his pals Zatanna and Wonder Woman, and also a few members of his rogue's gallery (Steampunk Batman is very polite).

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Revel in All the Decadence of the Edwardian Period in This Sumptuous…

In Mark Day's amazing short video of San Francisco's recent Edwardian Ball, it's hard to decide what's more astonishing: the cosplay or the incredible stage performances. It's like the gothic supernatural version of Downton Abbey — or maybe, it's just what everybody else was doing during the Edwardian period while…

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In which a Steampunk pioneer returns to the genre for the first time…

James P. Blaylock is recognized as one of the pioneers of the Steampunk literary genre, thanks to novels like Homunculus and Lord Kelvin's Machine. Now at last, he's returning to his Steampunk Langdon St. Ives series with his first full-length novel in two decades: The Aylesford Skull, which comes out tomorrow. And…

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