A round-up of geeky news you might have missed...(1) Knights Go Savage: The latest issue (#148) of Knights Of The Dinner Table features a nine-page pulp-themed Savage Worlds adventure.
(2) Big Bang Delayed Again: Efforts to restart the Large Hadron Collider have hit new snags which will delay the experiment's start until September (a year after it was first turned on!).
(3) Daisies Back From The Dead? Could the axed-before-its-time Pushing Daisies be returning as a film? It could be, according to one of its stars.
(4) Draw! A new Western RPG is being developed, Draw!, inspired by Hawgleg's popular Gutshot miniatures game. It is due for publication in February 2010, and will use a poker game-based mechanic to resolve gun fights and skill checks.
(5) Caprica To Debut On DVD: The Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica will debut on DVD on April 21 before being shown on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2010.
(6) Clone Wars To Continue: The Star Wars animation series Clone Wars has earned itself a second season. This will begin in the Autumn.
(7) Deconstruction Of Falling Stars: Mongoose Publishing puts out a "final", giant 636-page, supplement for its Babylon 5 role-playing game containing previously unpublished material, novels, articles and writer's notes.
(8) The 'Lost' Doctor Who Season: In 2010, Big Finish is to release audio plays, starring the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri (Nicola Bryant), of the scripts originally intended for Season 23 of the Classic Doctor Who series that were shelved to make way for the 'epic' Trial Of A Time Lord.
(9) Pride And Prejudice And Zombies: A zombie-related story so far out it's enough to make Jane Austen claw her way out of the grave and eat someone's brains!
(10) First Space Crash: Two satellites in Earth orbit collided nearly 500 miles above Siberia last week in the first accident of its kind.
(11) Hello, Mummy: Archaeologists unearth a cache of more than 20 mummies in Egypt dating back around 2,600 years.
(12) Huh? Seems like Hollywood will make a film about anything these days - the latest bizarre property to head for big screen glory is Stretch Armstrong, the rubber-limbed toy from the 70s!
(13) Trouble In The Dollhouse: Joss Whedon's new show, Dollhouse, draws poor ratings in its Friday night slot.
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