The Week In Geek...

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...

(1) Post-Apocalyptic Partnership: Radioactive Ape Designs has teamed up with Cubicle 7 in a partnership that will see their popular Mad Max-style role-playing pdf Atomic Highway released in print form this June.

(2) Savage 2010: Sean Preston teases Reality Blurs' Savage Worlds-related plans for this year. Nice to see Ravaged Earth getting a makeover - that was one ugly looking book!

(3) Day Of The Comic: A preview of the Day Of The Dead comic that will accompany the 25th anniversary Blu-Ray release of George Romero's Day Of The Dead.

(4) Behind The Screams - Episode 3: The first part of the Emily Booth's behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Brit zombie flick Doghouse.

(5) Is It A (Nerdy) Bird, Is It A Plane...: Fellow blogger The Nerdy Bird shares her impressions of the DC Comics' offices after a recent tour.

(6) Super-Musical Prepares To Take Flight: An updated version of an old Superman musical is to take to the stage in June.

(7) Take Megan Fox Home: Action figures to promote the new Western movie Jonah Hex have been unveiled, including a Megan Fox figure in her 'soiled dove' costume.

(8) Most Desirable Doll On Mars: Check out this very appealing £61, 12" Dejah Thoris action figure (from John Carter of Mars) coming from Triad in the first quarter of this year.

(9) The French Are Coming: The bestselling Asterix In Britain is heading to the silver screen.

(10) Get Your Grind On: A new documentary is being made about the history of grindhouse cinema and exploitation movies.

(11) A New Way To Follow The Doctor (in The UK): Classic episodes of Doctor Who are now available (in the UK) via a new online service called Seesaw.

(12) Against The Clock: Armageddon Hour is a new, solo game (available in pdf) from Ganesha Games that gives an hour (in real time) to beat the mutant bad guys before their boss triggers a bomb.

(13) Fox Back In Age Of Dinosaurs: Fox has recruited Steven Spielbergto bring some time-travelling dino-magic to its sci-fi new series Terra Nova.

(14) Joss Whedon Wants You! Joss Whedon is supposedly working on a Comic-Con centred documentary about superfans.

(15) Young (Cyber)Punk Kicks Ass: Live-action short Frame 137 brings Crow creator Mike Barr's Dark Horse Presents strip to life.

(16) Cop An Eyeful Of Frandor's Keep: Watch Jolly Blackburn's 'flip-thru' of forthcoming Hackmaster adventure setting Frandor's Keep, from Kenzer. Drink in the plentiful maps and great artwork.

(17) Bring The JSA To Your Desktop: Download a scan of the JSA painting by artist Rodolfo Milgliari which appeared in the recent Smallville: Absolute Justice TV movie.

(18) Interactive D&D: Zephri on the Tombworld blog plans to host a poll after every session of her new Dungeons & Dragons campaign for readers to decide what opponents her players will face next.

(19) Playing Games With Porn Stars: The popular Escapist website is about to get a whole lot more popular when it starts running a weekly online reality show following an ongoing D&D campaign involving stars of the adult movie industry.

(20) More Love For Island, Alone: Crave Online has made Island, Alone the subject of its first Zuda Comics Spotlight column. Remember, you only have until Thursday (February 25) to vote for this fine title on Zuda.

(21) Free Worldwide Shipping: Rising stars in the plastic and metal fantasy miniatures field, Mantic Games, is currently offering free shipping anywhere in the world until midnight Sunday, February 28.

(22) New Hobbit Hole Found: The publishers of the eagerly anticipated old school Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox set, Brave Halfling Publishing, has a new website.

(23) Knockspell In Stores: With issue 5 onwards, the Swords & Wizardry magazine, Knockspell, will be available in bricks and mortar games stores.

(24) Conan Of Lemuria: New 'barbarian gaming'-themed blog Vargold: The Wolf-Time offers statistics for using Robert E Howard's Conan with the Barbarians of Lemuria system.

(25) Is There Nothing This Man Can't Do? Geoff Johns reacts to his appointment as Chief Creative Officer of the DC Universe.

(26) RPGs Can Make You A Good Writer: Successful authors reminisce about the influence of Dungeons & Dragons on their lives.

(27) Nom Nom Nom: Daring Entertainment is about to begin publishing - via RPG.com - it's year-long, weekly zompocalypse campaign for Savage Worlds, War Of The Dead.

(28) Drow In A Box: Øone Games is now offering a virtual 'box set' of maps, some exclusive to the set, of a complete drow city - "the most dangerous, deep, mysterious and fascinating underground settlement ever mapped" - for your roleplaying enjoyment.

(29) Jeff's Looking For Pulp: The Evil DM, aka Jeff Mejia, is inviting submissions of pulp adventure story ideas for his forthcoming Barbarians Of Lemuria-driven pulp gaming supplement.