Geek Syndicate

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 stor...

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 upcom...

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 famili...

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...

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 bo...

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 Jo...

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...

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 a...

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 f...

Welcome back to the Geek Syndicate podcast. Join Dave and Barry as they continue with their mission to bring the sass back to geekdom.   Hot Potato Have we hit a saturation point with Superhero Movies? (Note: this episode was recorded before the major Marvel annoucements this week).   Week That Was The Mist  Beware the Batman Star Wars Rebels Doctor Who Thor God of Thunder: Vol 1 & 2   Main Dave c...

Welcome to the second in our platform special podcast. In this episode James and Amaechi talk all things PlayStation, covering the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. We discuss our favourite PlayStation game franchises and current games, look at PlayStation services such as PlayStation + and PlayStation Now. We also discuss the upcoming PlayStation TV and Virtual Reality system Morpheus, and look at what else...

Welcome to episode 68 of The Next Level. This month Ant goes on a gaming spree, Amaechi goes to the Moon with Destiny and we have not one, not two but 3 new games reviews.  In the news Super Smash Bros. 3DS sells 3m copies worldwide and WiiU version to be released this November 21st in North America and December 5th in Europe. Destiny averaging 3.2m gamers online per day. Creator of Gran Turismo f...

Dave and Barry take a break from their never-ending task to celebrate 8 years of podcasting before getting on with business as usual. Questions from the Syndicate The lads answer a few questions from the listeners. If you could go back in time to stop one comic/book/film or TV show from being made what would it be? Do you have a comic you love in a genre you don't like? Week that was Christopher M...

In this episode 00Scouse & the Greatest Living Yorkshireman [citation needed] debate James Bond - popular culture's platonic ideal of a spy. They fail to discuss post-Imperial Britain's identity crisis (which will have to feature in the conclusions episode) but look at  : gender & sex in bond (including the BDSM elements) : leading pastiches : anti-Bonds : race & patriotism  : best & worse of the...

Join Dave (Monts) and Barry (Nuge) as they continue their never ending quest to bring more sass to the world of geekdom. Shoutouts GS Listeners Ant and Steve give their feedback. Week that was Legends starring Sean Bean gets the once over and comes away a little bruised. Barry goes to his post apocalyptic happy place by reading the entire run of Y-the Last Man on holiday . Dave gets creeped out by...

Welcome once more to The Next Level. Episode 67 features Amaechi and Ant discuss the latest news, including more delays to games, Destiny's early success and Microsoft's purchase of Mojang's Minecraft. Since voting has opened for the Golden Joystick Awards, the guys run through the categories pointing out particular highlights. Finally, Amaechi reviews the full Season Two of Telltale Games' The Wa...

Once again the masters of sass Barry and Dave return to give another slice of geek fun. Hot potato Does Doctor Who have to make sense to be good?   Week that was Ultimate Nerf Battle (Getting shot in the head by a rubber bullet has never been such fun) Dresden files audio books (Who knew spike from buffy had a part time job?) Snowpiercer the film ( Spolier: a lot of folks get a whupping in this fi...

Join Dave aka Monts and Barry aka Nuge as they once again set out to bring the sass back to geekdom in the latest episode of the Geek Syndicate podcast. Shout outs Ratty Cole Hot potato Orgin Stories - Do we still need them in our films? Week that was Worry Wart Boo The Guardians of the Galaxy Main The boys look at the new season of Dr Who  

This episode we return after a bit of an absence to talk about X-Men issue 27 (December 1966) 'Re-Enter The Mimic'. Scripted by Roy Thomas and drawn by Werner Roth, this ish sees the return of, you guessed it, The Mimic! While we're at it we also chat about the Guardians of the Galaxy film and the first season of Penny Dreadful. Glad to be back!

This time Matt and Keehar are sent back to school with a special on all things educational. What is the attraction in the school setting? What gets it right and wrong? Classes include:   The American vs English (vs Japanese!) school paradigm “Harem” Anime and School Settings Harry Potter, and would you send your child to Hogwarts? American cliches - grades, graduations and High School Reunions Sup...

Welcome once more to The Next Level. In episode 66, Amaechi and Ant round up some of the news that emerged from this year's Cologne based GamesCom convention, including Microsoft and Sony's press conferences. The guys also look at the sheer scale of forthcoming game, No Man's Sky. Amaechi then digs into a couple of Playstation Network games he's been getting into and Ant follows up with a first im...

Welcome to the first of our The Next Level Platform Specials. First up, Ant is joined by Matt, James and Casey to discuss the behemoth of the PC and it's place in gaming. Over the course of this special, we delve into the reasons why we game on a PC. What game types work better on the PC? We look at the ins and outs of downloadable games: from Steam to Windows Live and back to independent releases...

Join Dave aka Monts and Barry aka Nuge as they once again set out to bring the sass back to geekdom in the latest episode Geek Syndicate. Shoutouts The boys get a book recommendation from Ben Campion Hot potato  Batman Vs Superman talk and the first image of Wonder Woman Week that was Ricky Rouse Has A Gun (Self Made Hero) Briony Hatch  (Limehouse Books)