Geek Syndicate

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.

Amaechi, Barry and Ant delve into the latest happenings in the gaming world and also take a look at the forthcoming gamut of Autumn games. Ant and Barry also compare notes on Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

This time, Amaechi and Antony look at some of the news coming out of Gamescom and PAX before reviewing Call of Juarez: The Cartel and offering some first impressions of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Finally, we see the return of the "forthcoming releases segment".

Caught up in an orcstasy of hobbit-love, the Scrolls team talked so long into the night that an entire section of Chapter 8 had to be cut for fear of Melting Your Brains. Well... it's too late now, obviously, so as Scrolls is taking a short break this month we thought we would share the last of our late night ramblings with you. This then, is the Previously Unreleased third part of our Middle Earth Special in which we talk Adaptations - games, plays, movies, music and models. Not only that, ladies and gentlemen but we have Additional Bonus Content excavated for you from the dusty archives of Nargothrond. Shortly after the inaugural Festival-In-The-Shire event last year Clover nabbed a skype chat with one of the guests, Professor Corey Olsen. Wary of overburdening you with Tolkienalia at the time, it was eventually decided to shelve this interview - but now you can hear it in its entirety. Tune in and let the Tolkien Professor fix your melted brains.If you like what you hear you can download his podcasts free of charge here.Intro/Outro music is, as ever provided by Steadman. I have also used a snippet from Howard Shore's wonderful soundtrack to The Return Of The King in order to seperate the two sections of the podcast

This month the DW duo of Kehaar and Matt try to get to grips with leadership in the slippery form of King Arthur. In a wide ranging discussion they look at such versions of Arthur as:

TV’s Merlin (BBC series) and Camelot (Starz series.)

Film’s Excalibur and First Knight

The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon

TH White’s entire Once and Future King series

Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord series

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poetry

D’Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory

& in the process they invoke:

SunTsu’s The Art of War

John Adair’s Action Centred Leadership model

Former English Cricket Captain & Psychoanalyst Mike Brearley’s ‘The Art of Captaincy.’

And fall out over Vikings !

For podcast specific news follow @DissectingWrlds on twitter. Kehaar can be followed @Clarkythecruel by suckers for punishment and @theGrampus is Matt.

Welcome to Episode 189 of Geek Syndicate. Join Barry and Dave as they once more guide you through the murky underbelly of Geekdom.

News JLA #1 Gets it's final cover, White collar looks out fo it's audience,Zeith rant and Agent Coulson gets his won short film.

Week that was: Fallin Skies, Captain America and Vixen: Return of the Lion.

Main we tackle the thorny subject of the spiderman and perry white casting and race in general

As mentioned in the episode head over to Cy Dethan's site for pre-ordering on The Indifference Engine and Broadcast: The TV Doodles of Henry Flint for Thought Bubble 2011

Kehaar recently attended a Twisted Tales panel event on the works of Clive Barker and - going above and beyond the call of duty - managed to snag a few minutes with all of the authors involved for Scrolls and all you listeners out there.Authors/editors interviewed are Marie O'Reagan, Paul Kane (who's own interview with Clive Barker can be found by clicking here), Mark Morris and the legendary Ramsey Campbell For more information about this and future Twisted Tales events please visit their website at http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/To hear Kehaar whittering on about the social sciences in science fiction, horror and fantasy across the full spectrum of media, check out Dissecting Worlds here on the Geek Syndicate Network. He can also be found on Twitter @Clarkythecruel (if you are a real glutton for punishment.)

• Brink and Red Dead Redemption are getting new DLC
• The Penguin and Solomon Grundy join the cast of Batman Arkham City
• Nintendo’s 3DS gets a price slash while the Nintendo’s President slashes his own salary
• Microsoft announces the new super cool R2D2/C-3PO Star Wars Kinect special edition Xbox 360
• Steam gets competition for downloadable games from EA and Amazon.

Welcome to The Trailer Trash Two: Episode 4. This time the boys talk about Swords and sorcery, James Bond and Indiana Jones, talking dogs and Jessica Alba in leather, monsters and kids, load of apes and the trailer voice over man missing from our lives.