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In this special episode Ant and Amaechi interview Dan Kilby, Marketing Co-ordinator at IGN UK as he discusses IGN UK’s Game Changer competition, which is looking for “The Next BIG Thing” in writers and video presenters for the gaming and movie industry.   You can find out more about the IGN UK’s Game Changer competition at  http://gamechanger.ign.com/   or see some examples of the video’s people h...

Join Dave and Barry for another trip through the world of geekdom. News Stan Lee gets is honoured Hollywood, most downloaded TV show of 2010 is revealed and news of the Hansel and Gretel film. Week that Was Being Human US/UK trailers , Smallville, The Sword ,  K9 , Skyline, Doctor Who Christmas special and Falling Skies Main The guys take a look at some of the scifi/fantasy film coming out in 2011...

And as you bask in the afterglow of the Dr Who Christmas special allow me to welcome you to the first episode of TimeLore, the newest addtion to the Geek  Syndicate Network. TimeLore is a season by season review of Dr Who from the very beginning. Your hosts are myself, David Monteith, Richard Hutchinson and Alexis Jayne Defoe Richard and myself have been steeped in Dr Who for as long as we can rem...

In this end of year special the guys talk about the cancellation of Stargate Universe and the take some listener questions. Week That Was The End League, All Star Batman, The Return of Bruce Wayne, Batman Inc, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Voyage of the Dawn Treader Main The second part of our interview with Merlin co-creator Julian Jones Enjoy and Happy New Year!

  After two episodes in October and none in November, the North East accents, squabbles and over-the-top jingles return with North East Geek Feast episode 7!   STARTER - Daniel and Lily welcome geeksyndicate.co.uk writer, Matt Pease (and a bit of microphone hiss), to the Feast to review The Amazing Spiderman 648 and 649. After 101 issues of ‘Brand New Day’, these issues start the new ‘Big Time’ re...

Welcome to Episode 5 of The Naked Geek hosted by David Monteith For the 2nd year running, The Naked Geek delivers an alternative Christmas speech. Today's inspiration comes from The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks and Dr Fate from DC Comics by J M DeMatteis & Shawn McManus For those who have bought the Geek Syndicate iPhone app I have included the first chaoter of Sword of Shannara Music: Here C...

Episode 3. Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time! Here it is, the long awaited (by some) episode 3. See what Rich and Ben have in their festive sack for all you lucky people! Any feedback/recommendations can be sent to projected.ramblings@gmail.com  or to  twitter.com/Richnerd

Join the guys in their final show of 2010. This episode, we discuss some of the big news - including a look at Drake's Deception and Amaechi previews Dead Space 2.   Our main this week is a look back at the games of 2010, we pick our favourite games from a variety of categories before settling on The Next Level Game of the Year.    The review this month is Tron Evolution - find out what Barry and...

Time for a another stroll through the deadly maze of geekdom with your hosts Dave and Barry. News Marvel relaunch Crossgen titles Fantastic Four to become Three Fan Poll picks it's movie Wonder Woman. Week that Was The Indifference Engine . Main In the first of a two-part interview we catch up with Julian Jones, writer and co-creator of the hit BBC show Merlin. In this part the lads fire their own...

  FEEDBACK: A HERO’S CALLING Episode #4 “The Next Great Superhero”   His wife and his Tech Support must face a global outbreak of superpowers without Feedback’s help when he is sequestered in the Lair for a television show.   Meanwhile Feedback finds himself isolated and alone, struggling to find out if he is still the man he thought he was.       Written by Alan White, Elizabeth Delaney, & Robin...

Earlier in the year Dave and I caught up with Mark Valley the star of the hit US show Human Target. Thanks to my computer dying I thought I had lost the interview (we lost dave halfway through the recording as you will hear) but after a whole lot of tinkering and some luck I've manged to recover the interview for your listening pleasure. Be warned this was recorded before season 2 aired so there's...

"Wassail! Wassail! All hail the Wassail! Wassail! wassail! all over the town, Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown; Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree; With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee. Like a works do in a 1970s sitcom the combined workforce of Dissecting Worlds and Scrolls continue to demolish popular panel games in the seasonal spirit.   Well seasonal spirits, and...

The wait is over.  The time is now. The Teen-Titans of the Geek Syndicate Network have come together in a bumper sized two-part special of podcasty goodness.  Celebrating the Christmas holiday in traditional fashion the Troublesome Twosome from  Dissecting Worlds  and the Questionable Quartet from  Scrolls  cast off all pretense of being rational people, get drunk and play stupid party games.  A l...

Join the guys for another swashbuckling into the world of Geekdom News: Tomb Raider goes back to the beginning ,] and  Will Smith is being targeted for a modern Robin Hood Week That Was: The Activate Primer ,  Jackie Rose , Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs Zombies , Human Target, Sanctuary and Tron: Legacy Main: We take a look at Kapow the latest UK comic con to be announced which is being spe...

Amaechi and Ant are joined once more by Barry, back from his sojourn from Podcasting. In the news, the guys discuss the massacre that is Black Ops Multiplayer, the PSP2 and the forthcoming Nathan Drake film. Barry kicks off the reviews with Call of Duty Black Ops, then he and Ant discuss 007: Bloodstone and compare that with 007: GoldenEye.

Chaos ensues once again as the troublesome team try to uncover the books and authors that had a major role in creating our favourite genres or have since shaken things up, put a new spin on them and generally kept it all fresh.  It has been heavily edited, resulting in the sad loss of several interesting conversations about books and authors which were too off-topic or else deserving of far more t...

As one Newge leaves another Nuge must regains his memories and regain  the ancient powers of Geekdom to come back ready to face the returning evil that is EPOCH.   As the guys have so much stuff to catch up on there is no main feature this week this a shed load of Week that Was.    A special treat/extra lies in store for those of you with our GS iPhone app . You wil be able to check out the first...

Flint is still MIA so Rich ropes in Iz to look at progs 1711 & 1712 and to announce an all new monthly 2000AD podcast.  As always expect language not suitable for the kiddies and spoilers throughout.

This time the Dissecting Worlds General staff take a close look at 2000ADs premier war story Rogue Trooper and through it armies in science fiction.   On the way they look at (deep breath) Jannissaires  & The Drakan books (& apologies to SM Stirling I don't mean his views are the same as his characters.) Time dilation, post traumatic stress & morally difficult Hawkwind songs. Charley's War & Poppi...

Hello and welcome back! It's been a turbulent few weeks here in the Asylum with upheavals both large and small, but we’ve managed to take a break from all of the moving and shaking to do some Pointing and Clicking! This episode we recommend you some fantastic Point and Click adventures, get put on the spot with a listener question, do a little cross promoting and even manage to wrangle out a compe...

Welcome to Stace's last episode. Sorry it's late, if you want to prevent it being late again then buy Dave a state of the art laptop to replace the tired one he has. Anyway as it's Stace's last episode I thought we would start and end with a Staceism, keep listening after the end theme.   On this show Dave and Stace  talk about the new Green Lantern trailer, Incredible Hulk TV show, they also talk...

After getting their wrists slapped for being too mean on the last episode, Rich and Flint take a week off and let two much nicer people stand in for them. Despite this expect the same non kiddie friendly language and alcohol abuse you get in the other episodes. Progs 1709 & 1710 are reviewed and the first picture from the Dredd movie is discussed... well, technically its more perved over.

FEEDBACK: A HERO’S CALLING Episode #3 "A Friend In Deed"   by Alan White Based upon the character concept created by Matthew Atherton and Sarah Blevins   Sometimes getting coffee can be murder.   CAST: Coffeehouse CLERK - Robin Carlisle Coffeehouse BARISTA - Mike Winters Coffeehouse CUSTOMER -   Kim Gianopoulus OUTSOURCE - Oliver Tull BLACKTHORN - Mark Kalita FORTHRIGHT- Steve Anderson REBOOT -  ...

This week, we look at the current gaming news, including the sale of Harmonix, Gran Turismo 5 and have a little giggle at some Kinect Fails. Three Action games face the spotlight in this week's reviews - find out whether Ant IS Bond, James Bond in GoldenEye 007 and our verdict on Medal of Honour and Transformers: War for cybertron.

We've got a special treat for you on Indie Asylum for this episode, we have a visitor entering through our padded doors, a Mr. Rob Louie of PA Games. Rob is the creator of Xbox Live Indie Game, Cutouts and he's come to join us to discuss his game, XNA and the world of Xbox Live Indie Games. So take a seat and prepare to learn, love and laugh along with Lee and Chelle on our first Indie Asylum spec...