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Scrolls Book Group: A Song Of Ice And FireIn 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.Joining us for the podcast are returning special guests Matt - The Grampus from Dissecting Worlds, and Carey - she of the Two-Monkeys from Geektress.We tackle the books one by one and focus on a particular theme for each. There are Major plot spoilers throughout and we do skip back and forth between books on occasion, so we strongly recommend that you only listen to this episode once you have finished reading Book 5: A Dance With Dragons.Warning: contains gratuitous boobies.[more....]Amongst the many items up for discussion are: Whose fault is it anyway, Why should you never bring your mum to work, Feuds and the Feudal system, Alternative weapons of war, Cers Ei Coyote, What's eating Red R'hllor, and The ignominous fate of bastards.In order to do the series justice we've recorded a far longer episode than usual - but never fear! For those of you who prefer your podcasts in bite-sized chunks we have divided the episode up into approximately half-hour segments with a musical cue from the stunning HBO television series to seperate them.The start times and themes for each section are as follows:-2m 41s - A Game Of Thrones: Secrets32m 57s - A Clash Of Kings: War59m 14s - A Storm Of Swords: Betrayal1h 28m 30s - A Feast For Crows: Religion and Magic1h 53m 10s - A Dance With Dragons: Use of PowerIf you feel inspired to carry on the conversation, come and join in on the Geek Syndicate Discussion Boards on Facebook.Other ways you can interact with us include e-mail: [email protected] and twitter: @scrollscast or the comments section below.Links mentioned in the show include the foody site for Westerosi dishes, innatthecrossroads.com and the article from Tiger Beatdown about how creepy George RR Martin is.What are you doing still reading this blather? Click on the linky-links and start listening!Enjoy.

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)!

- Captain America's Leadership Skill Set- The Ego Management problems of playing with the big boysAs well as the usual sidetracking into some strange and bizarre areas.

Comments to [email protected] or harass us at @theGrampus for Matt or @clarkythecruel for Kehaar or for plain unadulterated pod news @DissectingWrlds

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 welcome.

*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, Ultimate Spiderman, Teen Titans #1, Superman #1, I Vampire, Aquaman #1 and Blue Beetle #1

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 show being renewed of a fifth series. After answering some fan questions Julian tackles the subject of the Merlin film news and more.

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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. Mattie is obsessed. Stepping away from the soppy stuff we touch on themes of profound friendship, burning passion and doomed love before finally getting down and dirty (and giggling a lot) with a big talk about sex. [Oh yeah, baby]Along the way we also find ourselves discussing inter-genre snobbery, unusual sexual positions, beetle licking and cinema snack-food.Near the start we mention a new podcast called Filmsploitation, run by a good friend of ours, Mr Phil Hobden. I heartily recommend you check them out.Beware: Contains euphamisms and really scary mental images. This podcast could scar you. For life.

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 week before Eurogamer.

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 look at some of the new number one's from DC and Battle for LA

Main: We revisit the topic of remakes and reboots

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