Geek Syndicate

The boys from geek are back (Barry coming back from an hellish island apparently) and this time they are racking up another milestone by recording during a solar esclispe.  So buckle in geek fans! Week that Was Station 11 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Olympus Netflix Daredevil Trailer Dave revisits Star Trek: The orginial series   Hot Potato We look at the debate over the withdrawn Joker/Batgirl cover.

This month the U.S.S. Dissecting Worlds boldly goes back to the Star Trek Universe, where amongst the idealism and starships lie all sorts of secret shenanigans. Kehaar and Matt dive in too all the series and movies to pull out valuable intel on:    What happened to the Klingons between the sly operators of TOS to the honour-bound warriors of TNG?  How the Romulan Masters of Subterfuge ended up done over by the Dominion Why are all the Spy Agencies basically the KGB?  Are Section 31 behind the plot of Star Trek VI and how would you tell?  Missed covert opportunities with Enterprise and Voyager.    Dissecting Worlds Live 2015 happened and was great fun! Thank you to everyone who attended, contributed ideas, or just wished us luck. A summary, thoughts, and an episode on it will follow as soon as we’ve recovered!    Feedback as ever is welcome to @DissectingWrlds on twitter, dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk on email, the Facebook Group or below !    

Join your hosts Monts and Nuge in another crazy trip through geekdom!   News    The boys salute both 2000ad and the late Brett Ewrins Batman: Arkham Knight goes mature and the lads go mad Power Rangers go even more mature    Week that Was Bilal The Musketeers Arrow The Flash 

Welcome to episode 72 of The Next Level. In this month’s feature Ant, James and Amaechi look at the major games coming out this year and what we are all looking forward to the most in what is set to be one of the biggest years in gaming. In the news ·       Controversy rages over the length of PS4 exclusive The Order 1886. ·       Classic RPG Ultima Underworld to be rekindled in Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter. Find out more on this Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othersidegames/underworld-ascendant ·       Sony forget to renew The Last Guardian but insist the long in development game is still coming. ·       Humble Bundle Square Enix 2 released packed with several classic games. ·       Microsoft brings out update to the Xbox One Upload Studio video publishing platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTVAxFcp-Xg ·       BAFTA Game Awards nominees revealed.

We read together, We play together, Geek Boys for life.   Welcome to another episode of Geek Syndicate.   Join Barry(Nuge) and Dave(Monts) for another jaunt through Geekdom (with hopefully no bad boys style shootout with drug cartels..well maybe just to the one)   Geek Boys Geek Boys whatcha goin do?   News   Indy reboot with Chris Pratt? (Stop winding me up) Spidey joins the MCU Is the NetFlix of comics here now?   Week that Was Thunderbirds promos Jack Hammer Sexcastle    

This month agents K.E.H.A.A.R and M.A.T.T. are joined by guest Graham Pearce to discuss the Agents of A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.; that impenetrable nest of agencies with a snappy name disguising a clunky mess of words. Yes, its superspies, and this week cover: ●     Nick Fury and SHIELD ●     Checkmate, ARGUS, Task Force X and Amanda Waller ●     TV spies from UNCLE to Knight Industries and beyond. And, erm, On the Buses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Buses) ●     Spy toys of the 1980s; GI Joe, MASK and Action Force   Grahams’s Art Page on Facebook can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Art-of-Graham-Pearce/150371461721468 and he’s on Twitter @MrGrahamPearce   Dissecting Worlds Live can be caught up with on the blog, and the central page is: https://dissectingworlds.wordpress.com/dissecting-worlds-live-2015/     Feedback as ever is welcome to @DissectingWrlds on twitter, dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk on email, the Facebook Groupwww.facebook.com/dissectingworlds or below ! 

The boys from geekdom, Monts and Nuge, are back to bring justice and geek sized treats to all! Shoutouts    The Post Apocalyptic Book Club   Dissecting Worlds Live   Kim Curran   News    Ghostbuster gets a reboot and a new cast   The Superman gets a new power (like he's not got enough already).     Week that Was    The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 SHIELD #1 Ascension     Hot Potato Is the trope of the task force or special unit a bit overdone?

Welcome to The Next Level in 2015! Join the team on The Next Level as they delve into the latest news and announcements. Sony's sales trend continues at an aggressive rate, Barry talks an Elite Dangerous convention in his home town. Ant smells conspiracy on the horizon amongst the talk ... This month it's the start of a new year and as is the tradition, Amaechi, Barry, Ant and James look back at 2014 and determine their Game of the Year. In round-robin style, the guys divulge their top three games of the year. Also, please head over to dissectingworlds.blogspot.com to get information about the Dissecting Worlds Live! event in which the guys attempt to set up a colony on another world. They are after ideas and, ultimately participants to join them for the following: Foleys pub 159 The Headrow Leeds West Yorkshire LS1 5RG 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 21st February Drop on over and get involved!

Welcome seekers of pop culture mirth and frivolity* to another rip roaring episode of Geek Syndicate.   *Mirth and frivolity is not guaranteed.   News   The boys discuss a simpler DC Universe.   Week that Was   Marvel debuts new trailers for Ant Man and Avengers 2  Edge of Tomorrow The Disease Agent Carter get a review and Channel 4 gets a Rant   Main Feature   This week's main feature is some Listener feedback focusing on finding out just what Evil organisation our listeners would like to work for. 

Dave and Barry return with more geek sass than you can shake a lightsaber at with Episode 237 of Geek Syndicate. News Northampton Comic Con is coming while the Marvel universe is ending. The casting of Supergirl in her upcoming TV series. Dissecting Worlds Live Week that was Ripper Street Danger 5 Constantine Houdini vs Sherlock Holmes Starship Troopers invasion  

With the launch of the second series of BBC's The Musketeers Barry talks to the show's creator Adrian Hodges what fans can expect. We talk about the Peter Capaldi exit and what people can expect from Marc Warren as new villain Rochefort. As well as the musketeers themselves and other character, like Constance, Milady and the Queen The relationship to the show and historical events. The serial storyline aspect of the series, how that will work and the challenges it presents. Talk on the darker tone for series 2.  Adrian reveals what a Villian Bank is.   If you want to check out more from adrian than listen to the interview he did with GS earlier in the year whilst filming series 2.

Happy New Year Geeks! As the first podcast of 2015 Monts and Nuge delve deep into their bag of tricks to bring you the very best that Geekdom has to offer. Before they start the proceedings the guys have a quick look back at the their last film, comic and book of 2014 News Is a Young Han Solo film in the works? More guests annouced for the Birmingham Comics Festival. Luke Cage is Cast in the upcoming Netflix show. The news sends the guys into a much deeper debate about the current rise of Comic TV shows. Week that was The Librarians Rum Row Snowpiercer 2 Doctor Who: Last Christmas    

Welcome to most rambling episode of GS in 2014. News The Nuges loses his cool over the first offical shot from Man from UNCLE The boys talk Suicide Squad casting Dave does a 180 on Terminator Genisys   Week that Was Arrow The Flash Gotham Soppy  

As it’s the festive period once again our Two Wise(ish) Men take on the subject of family, for good, but mostly, it seems, for ill. In amongst the discarded wrapping and indigestion tablets, we cover:  Orphans Everywhere - from Treasure Island to Batman to Harry Potter Fathers, surrogate, missing, good and bad The skew towards male relationships and the (too few) good examples of female-led families The evolution of family relations in Gaming; The Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite.  Joss Whedon and Families being where you find them.  As a bonus, we’ve swapped out the Bookshelf for a short outtakes reel. Happy Holidays to one and all!  Feedback to @DissectingWrlds on twitter, dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk on email, the Facebook group or below !   

Welcome to episode 70 of The Next Level. This month Ant, James and Amaechi look back over the year of games released from January to December. The big hits, the disappointments and the surprises. In the news ·         Game Award 2014 winners revealed ·         Assassins Creed Unity’s game sized patch delayed ·         The Witcher 3 gets new playable female character ·         Sony host first ever PlayStation Experience event and showcases Uncharted 4 gameplay ·         Sony launches 20th anniversary PS4 ·         Sony confirm PS4 and PS Vita will launch in China in January 2015 ·         Xbox One outsells PS4 in US and UK for November ·         More details on No Man Sky revealed   Review This month Ant reviews Far Cry 4.    

Once again Barry and Dave stride the skin of geekdom to  take a slip from the cup of geek fu to bring back news, reviews and just a little more sass to geekdom. News Bond 24 becomes SPECTRE and Dave loses it over the casting. The boys also get into a debate over the perils of working for an evil organisation. Agent Carter gets a new TV Spot The Fantastic Four reboot reveals its synopsis and the boys are less than pleased. Krypton the TV show is announced. Week that Was Star Wars: Force Awakens Teaser Trailer Mono #1 Brass Sun Notes from Nuge Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtrack - Black Tears iPlayer Shows Invasion of the Fans Days of Fear and Wonder Remember you can get in contact with us at thegeeks@geeksyndicate.co.uk so please drop us a line.  

In November's Episode, Amaechi is joined by Ant, Barry and James to discuss the latest happenings in their gaming worlds.  The show is packed this month as James reports back on his trip across the channel to Paris to check out the latest tablet games.Barry has also been dipping into the tablet gaming arena and chats about his iPad gaming month. Amaechi and James once again attended the Golden Joystick awards, so they give a run-down of the event itself and highlight some of the winners. Given the number of "flawed" releases recently, the guys give their thoughts on the release of broken, buggy games and the trend of day one patching. Finally the guys have some more reviews for you. Hear Ant's first impressions of XBOX ONE exclusive post-apocalyptic  fun-fest, Sunset Overdrive and Amaechi and Barry discuss the latest Call of Duty offering - Advanced Warfare.

Dave and Barry once more return to continue their never ending mission to bring the sass back to geekdom. News Star Wars teaser trailer out this week...oh and we get around to talking about the new title Warren Ellis' Global Frequency pilot being made...again... Production halted on Constantine Hot Potato Have the Doctor's Companions become too important? The boys discuss. Week that Was Ancillary Justice Gotham Star Wars Rebels    Remeber to check out all the other podcast on the Geek Syndicate Network and subscribe you you never miss a single episode.

The time our Unspeakable Oafs Matt and Kehaar are joined by the Legendary game designer,writer and podcaster Mr Kenneth Hite to discuss the strange intersection of the shadowy worlds of Horror and Espionage. Given the opportunity, we also delve into Roleplaying games, pretty much because we can. Also covered: ● The Delta Green setting for Call of Cthulhu and related texts. ● Nazis and Communists and the Occult, oh my! ● Double Agents, Intelligence Disasters, and trust issues ● Tim Powers’ Declare ● Charles Stross’ Laundry Files ● Historical Agents and Seekers of Mystery ­ Dee, Newton and more. Ken’s Kickstarter, the Dracula Dossier, can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1721105501/the­dracula­dossier He is also on livejournal (http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/) and has his own podcast Ken and Robin Talk about Stuff (http://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/) Feedback as ever is welcome to @DissectingWrlds on twitter, dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk on email, the Facebook Group www.facebook.

The quarrelsome transpennine express of social science is honoured to be joined by the august and dulcet personage of Adrian Tchaikovsky.    Discussing Adrian's epic and espionage rich series 'The Shadow of the Apt' they discuss:   The Wasp Rekef and it's Russian inspiration  Stenwold Maker and personal espionage networks  Aptitude & Inaptitude's affect on spying The lack of espionage in fantasy fiction  The role of magic in spycraft  Intelligence agencies as Internal controls The Commonweal can't cope  Call-me-Kenneth's calling in the Star Wars universe and more!    Adrian's site for the series is here: http://shadowsoftheapt.com and he can be followed on twitter @aptshadow. His amazon page for the series and future works is here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adrian-Tchaikovsky/e/B002XLHS8Q/   Feedback to. @DissectingWrlds on twitter, dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk on email, the Facebook group or below !