Geek Syndicate

Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture is STILL the newest podcast in the stable of winged horses that is the Geek Syndicate Network. The podcast aims to do exactly what it says on the tin – young bucks Tim Swann (@tetrarchangel on twitter) of Psycomedia and Max Barnard (@maxy_barnard on twitter) of You Must Hear This identify a key area where popular geek culture falls down and t...

In which the team try to pin down the essence of genre: what differentiates it from a style; who makes them and how it affects our reading experience.  We go on to discuss the benefits and problems with blurring those boundaries.   Actually, for the first fifteen minutes we try to stop Mattie playing SW:TOR and attempt to discuss a series of books that none of us has actually read - but  then  we...

Join Amaechi, Barry and Ant in the first episode of 2012 where we look at the games announced for 2012 - from the big names like Mass Effect 3 and GTA 5 to the possible "under the radar" titles Never Dead and Spec Ops: The Line. The guys also discuss the news - from Full title downloads to OnLive on the iPad. Enjoy the show - and a Happy New Year from the Guys.

Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture is the newest podcast in the stable of winged horses that is the Geek Syndicate Network. The podcast aims to do exactly what it says on the tin - young bucks Tim Swann and Max Barnard identify a key area where popular geek culture falls down and then try and come up with some ways that both the creators and the audience can fix it.  In our fi...

This month Kehaar and Matt step inside an incourgrous blue box with a friendly stranger in the form of Luke from the Hulk Cast, ECBT2000AD, The Trip and Moon Freight 3. In so doing they pour over the long and varied history of the Doctor - in fact so long and varied that they decide to take 2 episodes to take a look at it.   In this first episode so doing they look at: The Grumpy Grandad and whose...

  Jingle bells, jingles bells, jingle all the way......Merry Christmas everyone. It’s the final episode of the Next Level for 2011 and 3 Stooges....I mean 3 great hosts come together in this bumper episode to talk about the games we plan on spending our long Christmas holiday break playing. We also debate the ethics of cheating in gaming. Are their acceptable levels of cheating?   In this week’s n...

The twinkling lights are all up, there's a chill in the air, little boys and girls are starting to get excited and, somewhere in the distance, a jolly fat man is whipping his elves with a cat-o'-nine-tails to work Harder, damn them, Harder.  It's nearly Christmas! It is the season of good will to all men - even pedantic sods and giggling morons.  It is also the season of binge eating and drunken a...

This week, standing against the Vampires, Demons and forces and Darkness, the Dissecting Duo Delve into the Buffyverse, looking at the leadership (and otherwise) of the forces of Light and Darkness as they struggle over the Hellmouth.  Subjects Covered: - Who  is  in charge of the Scoobies? and who  should  be?  - Why does Giles keep getting bashed on the head, and why doesn't buy a tin hat?  - Is...

Here we are again, just in time for christmas. In this episode Ant and I explore Frostfire & The Suffering two audio adventures featuring companions vicki and steven, read by the original actors, Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves. I then have a chat with the multifaceted Barnaby Edwards - This guy was the dalek operator in the Christopher Eccleston adventure entitled Dalek and has been in every dal...

Join The Dynamic Duo, and some chap called Barry as they discuss the latest goings on in the world of gaming. This episode is packed with first look reviews of Uncharted 3, Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim and Barry reviews The Adventures of Tin-Tin in Full.

This month we wander through the Wardrobe of Geek Analysis to the magical land of Narnia. Joined by Timothy Swann of the Psycomedia (and others!) podcast, we plunge into the frozen wastes of fantasy godhood in the shape of everyone’s favourite Divine Lion. Subjects Covered: - Lewis vs Tolkien, the Inklings, and parallel development - His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman and unintended messages - Cr...

This week in  the  news we have: Rainbow 6 Patriots & Grand Theft Auto 5 announced Mass Effect 3 gets 3 single player game modes US Gamer spends $1,725 to get Modern Warfare 3 three days early Ant rants about DLC being on retail game disks DC Universe Online goes free to play In our feature, Ant and Amaechi discuss  the  winners from  the  Golden Joystick Awards and give their first impressions on...

So this is it folks after five years and nearly 200 episodes the series finale of the weekly podcast that is Geek Syndicate is here. For the last episode we threw out thoughts of planning and went out as we came in with a bottle of whisky and to quote Dr Jones 'making it up as we go'. Enjoy and remember it's only the weekly podcast that is ending all the podcast on teh GS network will still be goi...

Scrolls Book Group: A Song Of Ice And Fire In which we try to harness George RR Martin's vast, fiery beast as it spawls triumphantly across the gems of modern Fantasy.  From the very first book,  A Game Of Thrones , this series has proven to be one of those compulsive reads that ignite the passions of a whole generation of readers, reaching far beyond the traditional boundaries of genre preference...

Welcome to Episode 34 of Small Press Big Mouth, with tons of news and a veritable shitload of reviews! We talk Villianous, Bearmaggedon, Emily Carroll, Unbelievable, Dark Judgement 2, Rachel Rising, Big Bang #2, Transient Man, Dr WTF?! and ZOOAD. Man, reviews are packed like a can of sardines in here like (though I think that smell is Lee!) Enjoy people and keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep reading (comics)!

This month the Cap and Falcon of Social Science in Geek podcasting get to grips with one of the most famous Team Leaders in Superherodom; Captain America:   In a Marvel-ous (and occasionally DC-ous) journey they look at: - Attractiveness and Charisma - Wearing the Flag - Ugly Patriotisim - Comedian and Ultimates Cap - Super Teams as Rock bands  - Super Teams as Sports Teams  - Captain America's Le...

Join Amaechi, Ant and later on Barry as they discuss the latest in gaming news, Gears of War 3 and look at some of the forthcoming releases. Also this episode, get our thoughts from the Eurogamer Expo and Barry interviews the Product Manager for OnLive and a tester on the forthcoming title Binary Domain. NOTE: Amaechi's India trip is now postponed until February, but any donations are still welcom...

*It seems for some reason the last time the episode was put live there was a problem which meant we lost the episode. Hopefully the problem has been fixed...apologies all! You thought we were finished, kaput, all done bar the shouting but you were wrong. Iz and Barry are back with a vengeance (a very positive vengeance) bringing you their positive outlook on the world of geekdom.

On this the penultimate episode of the Geek Syndicate weekly podcast Dave and Barry are joined by Scott Grandison, the co-host of Comic Book Outsiders to talk all things geek. News Dragon Age the web series, It's coming,  River Song and Gwen Cooper team up for SFX Weekender 3 and we meet the man who's paying a forture to be a real life Superman Week That Was Ringer, thefades, Terranova, Brillant, ...

In this special episode Barry talks to Juilan Jones, the co- creator and writer of BBC's Merlin. The chat includes what fans can expect from series four and what we can expect from all the characters, both old and new. Julian spends some time looking back on some of his fave moments of series three and even before that. Theres is talk of the impact writing series four with the knowledge of the sho...

In which our star crossed crew set sail to explore the mmm-agical... mmm-ysterious... and mmm-agnificent [Barry White - Hit It!] 'world of LO-o-O-O-o-O-o-O-O-o-O-O-o- OVE.' [Oh, yeah - now put it in the background... just like that, baby... OOH!...  Yeah...] This episode we talk a bit about torrid and horrid teen fiction, from Twilight to - well, we don't get much further on that part to be honest...

Join Ant and Amaechi in this special episode where they interview Tom Champion the Community and Eurogamer Expo Manager as they preview the upcoming Eurogamer Expo. We discuss what attendees can expect from this years event, the stand out developer sessions and the major exclusives including PSVita and OnLive. Tom also gives he's views on GAMEfest, the rival gaming expo that launched this year one...

Welcome to Episode 190 of Geek Syndicate. Join Barry and Dave as they once more guide you through the murky underbelly of Geekdom. News: Oxicomics launches it's new digital comics distribution service, A canadian production company to bring us Primeval:New World,Bow to the Lego Star Destroyer and Shelock Holmes comes to TV...again. Week that was:  Fallen Skies, Torchwood: Miracle Day, We take a lo...

Stacey and Lee are back in the podcasting saddle again! Woo hoo I hear you say - or something like that anyway. In this extra long episode they cover a whole host of news from the small and independent press and review; Those Of No Class, Jennifer Wilde, Hildafolk, Rachel Rising, Predators and Sugar Glider #2. It's good to be back!  

This month a hen-pecked trio of Matt, Kehaar and Special Guest Barry of Geek Syndicate and Unseen Shadows fame tackle the leaders of the Star Trek universe - starship captains.   -Marvel at the brains of Kirk -Wonder at the diplomacy of Picard -Exclaim at the fully rounded nature of Sisco - (And we also discuss Janeway and Archer)   There are side ambles into  Babylon 5, Galactica, Stargate Univer...