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Geek News: March 20

We’ve posted another badass poster for Terminator Salvation.

It’s rare we see deals made on video games that haven't even been announced, however... Fox Atomic has signed a deal with Zombie Studios for the rights to their forthcoming video game Blacklight. Fox will help develop the game as well as a comic book series and a feature film.

Battlestar Galactica" scribe Ronald D Moore has confirmed that his scipt for the sequel to John Carpenters “ The Thing” (1982) is complete and that a director has been choosen.

Something fishy is going on in northern Spain. The waters of the port of Gijon are shortly to be invaded – by robots. Scientists are building a shoal of robot fish to be let loose in the port to check on the quality of the water. Modelled on carp and costing about ($29,000) each to make, the fish are to be lifelike in appearance and swimming behaviour so they will not alarm their fellow marine inhabitants.
Two U.S. astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station yesterday on a six-hour spacewalk to install a 31,000-pound girder with solar wings, completing the final piece of the complex's structural backbone.

The highly-anticipated Battlestar Galactica finale premieres with a special two-hour episode tonight at 9 p.m on Space followed by the Fan forum. From what I’ve heard prepare to have your hear ripped out!!

Warner Brothers is looking at Chris Pine for the role of Hal Jordan in the upcoming Green Lantern movie. Pine is the new Captain James T. Kirk in JJ Abrams Star Trek.