The Order is not steampunk, Ready at Dawn co-founder Ru Weerasuriya told me during Gamescom. "It's a word that we don't use – it's the 's' word," Weerasuriya said.

Though the actual term "steampunk" didn't appear until the 1980s - defined in contrast to "cyberpunk" (think "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix") - the aesthetic itself dates back decades earlier.

Steampunk and co-op enthusiasts rejoice, for Guns of Icarus Online has something to tickle your fancy: dirigible versus dirigible combat, far up in the skies above a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

"Unicorn" dirigible warship, with Escorts 1 & 2, sculpture by Ed Kidera. On loan from the artist, in the Steampunk exhibit Monday at the Kemerer Museum in Bethlehem.

There's a steampunk magazine, steampunk blogs, steampunk fashion (think punk-meets-goth-meets-dirigible-pilot), and even a steampunk Web site that specializes in selling salvaged building parts to ...

Neil Meyer and Jessica Sherwood, both of Wallkill, pose in a steampunk dirigible airship at The Enchanted City, an urban street fair and spectacle of steampunk fashion Saturday Sept. 15, 2018 in ...