Geek Syndicate

Join Dave and Barry on another rollercoaster ride into the world of geekdom.

News

Mass Effect 2 kicks ass at the baftas

Sandman comes toTV

Superman Reboot news

Week the was

Slaughterman's Creed

The Quantum thief

Hawaii five 0

Being Human

Desperate housewives???

Geek Tweets

In this new section we scour our twitter feed for questions on Young Justice, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Doctor Who and more

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Don't forget to vote for us in the sfx blog awards!

A new series and a new format - wary of two middle class middle aged men discussing gender issues and sexuality the morose pairing of Matt and Kehaar have got in reinforcments in the form of 'little witch' Amy from 'Birds of Geek.' With no blows barred they take a good hard look at sexuality and espically gender issues in Super hero fiction - principally comics. On the way there is considerations of such things as - is Black Canary/Green Arrow's relationship the only real one in comics? The Oracle character arc, is The Joker a rapist? Gail Simone's Women in Refrigerators article, Sue Storm's decisions in Civil War, Mary Wollenstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, Sucker Punch get's a kicking and Matt admits a deep dark desire. There's some strong language and some strong opinions in this episode. (So let's hear yours.) Link's Amy mentions http://www.superdickery.com/ http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir And you can hear more of her hear http://birdsofgeek.libsyn.com/ Come on the forums with your opinions or email [email protected] or twitter Matt @theGrampus or Kehaar @Clarkythecruel Kehaar's game related musings can be found here http://clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/ and his current RPLG campaign here http://alfiesantics.wordpress.com/ Matt's literary reviews are here http://www.geeksyndicate.co.uk/ under the Tolkien Gestures thread.

Wewlcome to Timelore Addendum a short stopgap to keep you going till the next epsidoe of Timelore. In theis ep I and field agent Ant look at the Big Finish audio adventures that slot in and around the first series of dr Who and I interview Stephen North who played the father iin the family on The Christmas Carol, the latest Dr Who Christmas special.

hope you enjoy

David

Ant and Amaechi once again bring you the latest news from the gaming world. In this episode Amaechi finally plays his first ever MMO in Champions Online, and not one to do anything by half’s promptly downloads another MMO, Lord of the Rings Online.

In the news

· PS3 shipments get frozen in Europe thanks to LG’s law-suit

· The Mexican Government calls for Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez to be banned due to the 6000 drugs related murders in 2 years in the real life Juarez

· MCM Expo joins forces with Gamespot UK to bring more games to its Expo’s

· iPad 2 gets launched

· Playstation Home may be getting a multiplayer social network upgrade

Main feature

In our main feature we discuss the growth and latest developments in the world of handheld/mobile gaming. With 2011 bringing 2 new major handheld console releases in the Nintendo 3DS and Sony NGP (PSP2), the continued growth in mobile phone games and the predicted explosion of tablet PC’s with iPad 2, Android tablets, Windows 7 and both Balckberry and HP launching tablets; this segment of the games industry is a hot topic.

Welcome guys and gals to episode 29 of Small Press Big Mouth. This episode Stace and Lee LOVE Ian Culbard and review both The Sign of the Four and The Mountains of Madness, also reviewed are two anthologies; Tales of the Spiffing and Solipsistic Pop 3 as well as Hermit by the rather wonderful Andy Waugh. Lee also reviewed another comic but I can't spell it...I mean it's a surprise ooooohhh surprises are cool!

Welcome to Episode 2 of Timelore - your review of Dr Who from the very beginning. Join our slightly foolish team of watchers as they review the 2nd half of Dr Who's first ever season.

In this episode there is a fair bit of character assasination as we find ourselves getting alittle bit of Susan overload and we review the following stories

The Keys of Marinus

The Aztecs

The Sensorites

The Reign of Terror

Please send us comments to [email protected] or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/time_lore

Join the lads for another romp through ye olde town of Geekdom.

News: Wonder Woman TV Casting and MCM Expo News

Week that Was: Clone Wars, Nemesis, Brightest Day Volume One, The Expendables, RED and Megamins

Main: In this week's main we have a special interview with the co-creator of the Primeval TV series Adrian Hodges. We discuss with Adrian how Primeval came back to TV after it's cancellation, the new cast members, fan reaction and news on the potential North America Spin off and the Primeval movie.

Enjoy!

Have aspirations of Starting Out as writer? Want to hear the experiences of veterans and newly established authors? Look no further.Seizing the unique opportunity provided by the SFX Weekender this year, we collected an array of interviews from authors at various stages of their careers for your aural delectation. We probe into achieving a publishable standard through proof-readers and tinkering, the benefits (and not) of Agents, and dealing with rejection; gleaning insights along the way on their writing and editorial processes and the mysterious mechanics of the publishing world.Huge thanks to the contributing authors for their time and their trust. If you have enjoyed their work, or if you would like to ask them any follow up questions having heard these interviews, please post messages at the following sites:Joe Abercrombie - http://www.joeabercrombie.com/Scott Andrews - http://www.eclectica.info/Jonathan Green - http://www.jonathangreenauthor.blogspot.com/Peter F Hamilton - http://theunisphere.com/James Lovegrove - http://www.jameslovegrove.com/Andy Remic - http://www.andyremic.com/Adrian Tchaikovsky - http://shadowsoftheapt.com/Authors by and large get very little direct feedback from their readers, so make their day and show them your love (and if you've enjoyed this episode of Scrolls, for goodness sake let them know that as well. It will increase the likelihood of them letting the bald-nutter-with-the-tiny-microphone interview them again in future.)We will be recording Part 2 in early March, with the Scrolls team discussing topics spinning off from these interviews. If you have anything occur to you that you'd like us to specifically discuss please contact us in the usual manner tweeting @scrollscast, posting on the forums at www.gsforums.co.uk or e-mailing us at[email protected]Keep writing. And, er, reading.And listening to us. Obviously...

FEEDBACK; A HERO’S CALLING

Episode Six; "What Was Lost"

written by Kim Gianopoulos, Alan White, C. Alexandria Schwarz,

and Richard Brooks II.

Feedback and Tech Support scramble to find a cure for their stricken friend and teammate Tom, but the answer may lead to the most devastating weapon of all – Sarah!! Can Feedback survive the most soul-crushing challenge of his life?

Featured in this episode were the voice-acting talents of

Mike Winters as TOM

Elie Hirschman as CONSOLE

Mark Kalita as BLACKTHORN

Kim Gianopoulos as K2

Andrey Kuznetsov as REBOOT

Tanner Karns as ROUTER

C. Alexandra Schwartz as COURTNEY

Tim O’Donnell as BACK-UP

Paeter Frandsen as PRE-FETCH

Rebecca Pryor as Forthright’s RECEPTIONIST

Steve Anderson as ALEXANDER FORTHRIGHT

Richard Brooks II as BROOKS

Robin Carlisle as DRAGONRYDER

MJ Cogburn as WOLF-GIRL

Phill Moxley as EMERALD KNIGHT

Colin D. Snow as BREAK BREAKOUT

Steve Hykes as ARCHIVE

Rich Frost as MAINFRAME

Adam Ledzion as ADAM/ARC

Brandon Cole as FREAKOPAEDIA

Bruce Busby as The CONCIERGE

Jeffrey Kirkpatrick as CLUSTER

David A. Krause as NICK RICHARDSON

Alan White as CHATHAM

And our special guest stars,

Tonya Kay herself, performing as CREATURE! You can follow the continuing adventures of CREATURE as well as follow the poi-spinning career of Tonya Kay at www.tonyakay.com

and

Scott Hinze from www.fanboyradio.com joining our cast as FIREWALL

As always, but especially in this performance, we were honored and privileged to have Matthew Atherton and Sarah Blevins filling the roles of our heroes FEEDBACK and his amazing wife SARAH.

Kingdon Hearts is copywritten 2002 by SQUARE CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. Gamescreen FX obtained from http://www.freewebs.com/kingdom-hearts-saga/ The Kingdom Hearts game powers borrowed in this production were done in the same manner that Our Hero borrows them – for good and not for evil!

Original Score by David A. Krause. You can find David’s music compositions for “A Hero’s Calling” at http://davidallenkrause.com/default.aspx

Post production was done by Alan White.

The terrible twosome wrap up their miltiary series with a general chin wag about what've learned over the last 6 weeks. Not a lot, but in the course of this they consider does SF ever really tell miltiary stories? Where there is space to tell such stories?. How do Computer games fit in to genre military fiction?. Is there a miltiary fiction genre of it's own? Why is Outcasts so poo? They also consider modern British casualty sensitivity and consider the allogorical power of science fiction and how it's sometimes wasted in miltary SF. Matt is unkind to Footfall while discussing asymetrical warfare and Kehaar is as always the steady voice of wise counsel (not.) Needless to say they bounce around such historical matters as comedy Nazis, Northern Ireland and the British Indian Army. The low tech colony book mentioned is actually Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobleyhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeds-Earth-Humanitys-Michael-Cobley/dp/1841496316/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297596904&sr=1-1 Details of 'Conspiracy' here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/ Feedback is as ever welcome on the forums, or by emailing [email protected]. Same ports of call if you fancy guest hosting in our gender and sexuality series.