Someone was kind enough to put together an article on Eclipse Phase on wikipedia. In traditional wikipedia form, however, the article is already up for deletion. Wikipedia frowns on people/companies who edit their own articles, so we're keeping our hands off of it, but if you think the article should stay, we recommend you head over to the discussion and voice your opinion, as well as contribute facts and details to the wiki article itself. The point of contention is EP's "notability" (apparently being BoingBoinged, Slashdotted, and optioned for film didn't boost our Rep scores enough!). Perhaps it would help to point out that EP is the first roleplaying game to be released by a large publishing company under a Creative Commons license.
GM Screen Cover Art
We haven't shown off the artwork for the back of the EP Gamemaster Screen yet, so here you go! (clicky for embiggening):
This is another Stephen Martiniere piece, depicting a group of Firewall agents having an unfortunate run-in with a fractal -- a bush robot left behind by the TITANs -- on Mars. That's Olympus Mons and the space elevator in the background.
Anders Sandberg on EP
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.
H+ Magazine Article
The transhumanist-oriented H+ Magazine has an article on Eclipse Phase, interviewing Rob Boyle and Brian Cross about how various aspects of transhumanism tie into the game and setting. This was a fun interview for us, so pop on over to take a look, and check out the rest of their site while you're at it!
Character Creation Examples
We're thrilled at the reaction to EP so far and the fun people seem to be having with the game and setting. For those of you who are thinking of starting up a game and wondering how character creation is here's a link to a thread at rpg.net where people are having a blast tossing out character concepts and then creating them. It's got a lot of good information on how certain things work and discussions of various morphs and skills.
It also has the King of Sparta, an open source morph entrepreneur, and more discussions of Surya goodness.