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CNN's Geek Out Highlights EP

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Christian Sager from CNN's Geek Out recommended Eclipse Phase as his geekiest holiday gift:

It's after the apocalypse. Humanity's evolved beyond the skin and bones we were born with. Have you ever wanted to put your mind in a different body? Maybe one with improved physical capabilities? Or a different gender? What about a robot? Or even a octopus? All this and more is possible in the unique roleplaying game "Eclipse Phase," published by Posthuman Studios. My favorite gift this season was the almost 400 page Core Rulebook for this game of science fiction, conspiracy and horror.

This book begins with a compelling short story that immerses the reader in the "Eclipse Phase" mythos and immediately leads you into a full description of its unique setting and culture. The game isn't as hack n' slash as other tabletop RPGs and encourages in-depth roleplaying from its players, including backgrounds, motivations and concepts to encourage group storytelling. This is hard sci-fi, featuring morph bodies, psionic powers, a "Matrix"-like virtual reality, space travel and alien incursions. Best of all, Posthuman Studios has published it under a Creative Commons license that allows fans to share or re-work the book's text and art as long as they follow the license's conditions.

Thanks Christian!

Posthuman Studios Evolves!

The Posthumans are pleased to announce that after an incubation period of one year, we have burst forth from our partnership with Sandstorm Productions and are assuming full control of our publishing operations!

For gamers, this doesn’t mean a whole heck of a lot. You can still buy our books at fine local game stores, the chain stores that carry them, Indie Press Revolution, and Amazon. The third printing of Eclipse Phase is shipping to the PSI warehouse (we'll announce a street release date soon) and Panopticon is also at the printers. We have some electronic-only titles on the near horizon as well, so watch for upcoming street date announcements!

The only downside for gamers: our upcoming releases, such as Rimward, will be pushed back. They are in-progress, but our schedule is already behind. Instead of trying to race forwards and “catch up,” we are keeping a steady pace—and taking the necessary time to square business matters—to maintain the high quality of our games.

Game stores and distributors, our entire stock is again available worldwide through Publisher Services, Inc. We are in the process of updating all of our sell sheets and other product information and will post it online soon. We also have a new announcements mailing list for stores and distributors, please subscribe!

"After knowing Posthuman for many years, PSI is excited to be working directly with Posthuman for the first time. We look forward to supporting their continued growth and continuing to supply all channels with their high quality role playing games," said Fred Yelk Woodruff, Director of Business Development at PSI.

Call to Action!

This is an exciting and long-term positive step foward for Posthuman Studios, but it does mean we need fan support more than ever! Please help us out in the following ways:
  • Visit your local game store and pre-order the third printing of Eclipse Phase and Panopticon.
  • Work with your local store to run Eclipse Phase demos, and tell us about them so we can help you promote them!
  • Visit us at Gen Con: attend our seminars, meet us at the booth, and play Eclipse Phase!

About Posthuman Studios

The publisher of Eclipse Phase, Posthuman Studios LLC (PS+) is the award-winning creator-owned game design collective founded by game industry veterans Rob Boyle, Brian Cross, and Adam Jury. Posthuman Studios believes that the future of hobby gaming is the hybridization of analog and electronic play–whether that be at the augmented tabletop or online play; that gaming has been and always will be a culture of sharing, and that we must build the creative future we want to live in. You’re invited!

About Publisher Services Inc

Publisher Services Inc. (PSI) is a leading North American sales and fulfillment service organization enabling greater sales for small to medium-sized publishers to mass market, book trade, and specialty retail channels. Our objectives are to work with our publishing partners to optimize their presence in the broad marketplace and offer the highest quality products to our retail customers.

The ENnies are coming! The ENnies are coming!

In case you missed the news Eclipse Phase received 4 ENnie Award nominations. Needless to say, the team is honored times four. :) 

RPG Blog II Applauds EP

The folks over at RPG Blog II posted up their Best and Worst of Gaming in 2009, and they selected Eclipse Phase as the best sci-fi product of the year:

Best Sci-Fi Product
Gold: Eclipse Phase
I don't usually do Transhuman sci-fi, but Eclipse Phase mixes it with horror and a bit of investigative conspiracy and comes up with a nice shot in the arm for the sci-fi RPG genre. Oh, and did I mention it was published under a Creative Commons license? Total bonus points there.

That's an awesome compliment, thanks guys!

EP Gets Some Love

Last week, EP was reviewed on the Here Be Gamers podcast. This week, the folks over at livingdice.com put Eclipse Phase on their list of X-Mas Gift Ideas for Gamers. Thanks guys!

EP on the Hebrew Gaming Podcast

Eclipse Phase co-creator Rob Boyle was interviewed on the Hebrew Gaming Podcast earlier this month, and they've now posted the mp3 online. This was a fun talk going over various elements of the game setting and system. Thanks guys!

Peter Watts on EP

Sci-fi writer Peter Watts commented on Eclipse Phase on his blog today. Thanks Peter!

In addition to writing some great books and being one of the influences for Eclipse Phase, Peter is noteworthy as also adopting the Creative Commons model with his books. His novels are available online--check them out! (Blindsight here, and Starfish, first book in the Rifter trilogy, here--and that's just to start!)

Grinders Interview

Rob and Brian were interviewed by Kevin from Grinding.Be about Eclipse Phase during GenCon. This talk covers some of the basics of EP and some of the politics behind it, while also meandering into other random territory.

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Anders Sandberg on EP

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We asked neuroscientist and prominent transhumanist Anders Sandberg to review Eclipse Phase, and he kindly obliged. Thanks Anders! If you haven't seen it, Anders maintains a noteworthy collection of transhumanist links and resources, as well as some notes on his own RPG games.
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