If you're attending GenCon and want to play in some Posthuman Studios-sponsored Eclipse Phase games, you can find the schedule here.
If you're attending GenCon and want to play in some Posthuman Studios-sponsored Eclipse Phase games, you can find the schedule here.
Eclipse Phase is one of the twelve nominees for this year\'s Grog d\'Or (Golden Grog) award. The award is chosen by the folks behind the Guide du Roliste Galactique, with the nominees coming from the games chosen for their website\'s game of the month (EP was the October 2009 choice). The list of nominees is:
You can find more info on the nominees here. We\'re in very good company, so the competition is tough! The results of the election will be known on May 8th, 2010.
It\'s an honor to be nominated, so thanks for the folks who supported us!
As noted earlier today on the Catalyst site, we are in negotiations to sever the licensing agreement between Catalyst Game Labs and Posthuman Studios. Here's what Catalyst had to say:
Catalyst Game Labs Negotiating To Part Ways With WildFire And Posthuman Studios
Catalyst Game Labs is currently engaged in negotiations to end its agreements with WildFire and Posthuman Studios. Once the terms are finalized, Catalyst will no longer publish CthulhuTech or Poo: The Card Game for WildFire, nor will they co develop and publish Eclipse Phase for Posthuman Studios.
“It’s been fantastic to be involved with growing CthulhuTech alongside WildFire, while also launching Posthuman Studios’ Eclipse Phase,” said Randall Bills, Managing Developer. “We love both of these universes and want to seem them grow and flourish. However, in our current situation we need to re-focus on our core brands of BattleTech and Shadowrun, while developing our original games. As such, while we are parting ways with both companies, we’ll be doing everything we can to support WildFire and Posthuman Studios as they assume the full mantle for their
game lines.”Future details surrounding CthulhuTech will be found at cthulhutech.com, while future Eclipse Phase details will be found at eclipsephase.com.
What this means is that in the very near future the Eclipse Phase IP will be back fully in the control of Posthuman Studios. We are already talking to several potential publishing partners, and our goal is to get both the Eclipse Phase Core Rulebook reprint and the EP Gamemaster Pack into distribution as soon as possible, followed soon after by Sunward.
Unfortunately we won't have any solid information on release dates until this matter is completely resolved. We'll be sure to post that information here once we know. Thanks to all of our fans for their patience and continued support!
Trigger Happy Lawyers, Please Take Note: This post was an April Fool's joke, and as such is a work of parody. I wish we didn't need to include such a disclaimer, but we live in a litigious world.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Posthuman Studios is pleased to announce the addition of Iron Sky as an alternate setting for the Eclipse Phase RPG. Initial plans call for the release of a core book porting the Iron Sky setting to the Eclipse Phase rules engine, followed by two supplements in 2010 and early 2011.
What will Eclipse Phase: Iron Sky look like?
"Basically, you're a Space Nazi," said lead developer Rob Boyle. The core game will feature one playable race (Aryan), a wide range of Space Nazi morph types using Eclipse Phase's unique resleeving mechanics, and a wealth of setting material on the Moon, Earth, and other places where Space Nazis go on Space Nazi adventures.
"After a white supremacist web site posted comments critical of some of the left wing political activities of Eclipse Phase writers, we felt it was necessary to reach out to this community," said developer Brian Cross, "Doing an Iron Sky RPG seemed like a great way to show that we're not necessarily the pinko race traitors we've been made out to be."
Eclipse Phase: Iron Sky offers several improvements over the core Eclipse Phase setting, including a space combat system, simplified character creation (who needs 1,000 customization points when all PCs are blond haired and blue eyed?), and an all-white production team -- now with more Germans!
"I'm really psyched about how this book is going to look," said lead designer Adam Jury, "German blackletter fonts are fucking sexy, and they're impossible to read, which means less whining from the fans about typos!"
Posthuman will being releasing Eclipse Phase: Iron Sky material in late 2010. Pre-orders for this revolution in science fiction RPGs will begin in July, 2010.
Eclipse Phase writer Jack Graham added, "Yep, we're kidding about this. Happy April Fools Day. Oh, and fuck you, Nazis!"
The real Iron Sky web site is here, and it actually looks like a pretty awesome movie which we're looking forward to seeing. Here's hoping the studio's lawyers realize this is fair use and don't sue us!