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Welcome to episode 75 of The Next Level. This time, Ant and James delve into the news, looking at Microsoft’s team up with Oculus amongst other items.

From there, the guys take a look at this year’s E3 expo, running through their expectations for the conferences and picking out some key games to watch out for.

Be sure to check out the National Videogame Arcade, mentioned this week (and Ant’s review of it here!).

As mentioned this episode, the team will be taking a break over the summer to have a re-set of the podcast. If you have any opinions on the kind of content you would like to see from The Next Level or even holes in the gaming podcast market – let us know by emailing [email protected]

That's right geeks Monts and Nuge are back and this time they've bought cake! Ok maybe not cake but they have bought a Podcast *

*Note Podcasts are never better than cake...NEVER!

Hot Potato

Simon Pegg Gate and is scif-fi/comic book movies dumbing down cinema ?

Since this episode was recorded Simon gave a much fuller explanation behind his quotes and it is well worth a read.

Monts choice

In which Monts trying to talk Nuge out of his hard earned spare time by trying to convince to read one of three comics he has

Week that was

Secret Wars 2

Arrow Season 3 finale

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With this year's Sci-Fi London Festival just around the corner rather than a light year or two away the lads have a chat with festival organizer Louis Savy.

You can read up on the full Sci-Fi London programme here

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Welcome to another episode of Geek Syndicate...we hope you bought enough Sass for everyone.

The Big News

NBC a "no" for Season 2. Warner Bros working hard to find #Constantine new home.

Week that was

Secret Wars 1

Earth 2

Convergence

Castle s07e16

Arrow/Flash

Main - Pilot Season - The lads take their annual look at the list of new genre shows on the way this autumn or fall if your stateside and give their impressions on them.

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Welcome to episode 74 of The Next Level. In this month’s episode Ant uses his paternity leave to play lots of games, Amaechi gets back on the gaming horse with a couple of indie games and James dust off his surprisingly still working Gameboy Advance for some retro gaming.

In the news

· New Legends of Gaming event coming to the UK

· Call of Duty Blacks Ops 3 and Star Wars Battlefront trailers released

· New Guitar Hero Live and Rock Band 4 games announced

· The Order 1886 gets some body parts censoring in Japan of all places

· The National Video Game Arcade/Museum in Nottingham host special gaming events

· Telltale announce they are working with Marvel on a new games series

· The Witcher 3 is a very big game…..prepare to lose nearly 200 hours of your life. So when are long games too much?

The guys discuss the first promotional image of Jared Leto as the Joker. There is also some discussion around the whole idea of a Suicide Squad film. This also leads into some chat about the Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer (Is it me or is that trailer really, really dark).

Welcome to Dissecting World's Lecture on the Communism - or is it an Anarchy? - of Iain M Banks titanic sweeping space opera culture; The Culture, with focus on their spies 'Special Circumstances'.

The Northern duo of Kehaar & Matt are joined by an incredibly knowledgeable David Haddock of the Banksoniain (http://efanzines.com/Banksoniain/index.htm) fanzine and discuss:

* the blurred lines between Contact & Special Circumstances

* the post-scarcity nature of The Culture & how Star Trek avoids the questions

* Playing the long game and underestimating The Culture at your peril

* All that tech! Shiny!

* Plus Wiki-edit wars!

Please check out the Banksonian for more insights

Remember to send us feedback on our Spies Series and DW live episode! Email us, tweet us or join our Facebook page.

The Multiversal Comics shared silver age supers is here https://clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/ssas-shared-silver-age-supers/ get in touch if you want to join the FACEBOOK group for it.

Finally, Adrian Tchaikovsky, who has been a guest this season, is up for a Gemmell Award: If you’ve read any of his Shadows of the Apt series and want to show your appreciation, you can vote here; http://www.gemmellawards.com/award-voting/. Or vote for anyone else, for that matter.

The Musketeers Showrunner Adrian Hodges returns to Geek Syndicate to talk about this thoughts on the second series.

Dave and Barry are back in geek town and they're bringing the sass with them!

There's a little chat about the Thunderbirds show which when this episode was recorded the boys still hadn't seen it yet.

Week that was

The Musketeers

The Last man on Earth

The Flash

Arrow

Jorund Bound

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Barry chats with Dan of the sidekickcast Podcast at the London Super Comic Con 2015

Join us as we foray once more into the world of the video game. Amaechi is joined once more by stalwarts James and Ant to look at the month's gaming news.

This time, the guyss discuss Playstation sales, BAFTA and yet more delays.

The news is followed by a delve into the world of Virtual Reality headsets and then we round up with first impressions from James and Amaechi of The Order 1886 and Evolve respectively.