• Just Cause the movie
• Xbox 360 dashboard update
• GBA games coming to 3DS owner.....but who really plays these old game?
• Naughty Dog reveals the Last of Us
• Skyrim - Game of the Year or bug filled nightmare?
• CoD player gets 14 year ban for cheating

The twinkling lights are all up, there's a chill in the air, little boys and girls are starting to get excited and, somewhere in the distance, a jolly fat man is whipping his elves with a cat-o'-nine-tails to work Harder, damn them, Harder.  It's nearly Christmas!

It is the season of good will to all men - even pedantic sods and giggling morons.  It is also the season of binge eating and drunken arguements.  (I think you know where I'm going here.)  Yes!  It's time, once more for the Gala of Games, the Bonanza of Banter, the Surfeit of Silliness that is our Christmas Cross-Over.

Warning: Explicit Content from the start

It's a more focussed event this year, with only three games, but what games they are!

Clover IS Nicholas Parsons in 'Just A Minute!' (complete with fishnet tights)
Matt IS Lord Alan Sidious, searching time, space and multiple realities for the next 'Sith Apprentice'
and
Kehaar IS that bloke from the radio who hosts Fighting Talk IN... 'Geeking Talk'

All three are ably assisted, undermined and irritated by Phil, Mattie and Dion.

LEARN - how to survive in a horror film

DISCOVER - the trans-sexual sensation that is The Wicked Witch of the West

GASP - at our ability to construct whole sentences under the influence and still sound convincing

WONDER - how these damn games are scored anyway and...

PONDER - just who is The Best.


Our Intro and Outro music has been kindly provided by John Anealio from Geek Dad.  You can find his Christmas EP at www.johnanealio.com and loads more to boot.

Also included is a snippet from the fantastic 'It's Beginning To look A Lot Like Fish-Men' which you can hear in full at http://www.cthulhulives.org and also purchase the full 'A Very Scary Solstice' albums.

You may also notice The March Of The Knights music from Romeo and Juliet.  It sounds an awfully lot like the music from The Apprentice but I'm pretty sure that's just a coincidence.  (Ahem.)

Any other singing is lamentable and should be born with grace and sympathy.  It is Christmas after all...

Here we are again, just in time for christmas.

In this episode Ant and I explore Frostfire & The Suffering two audio adventures featuring companions vicki and steven, read by the original actors, Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves.

I then have a chat with the multifaceted Barnaby Edwards - This guy was the dalek operator in the Christopher Eccleston adventure entitled Dalek and has been in every dalek episode since.  He also writes, acts, directs and produces many Big Finish stories.

Find out which BF story is his favourite, what he thinks of the new dalek design and wether dalek operaters have a harder time than R2D2

http://www.barnaby-edwards.com/

Join The Dynamic Duo, and some chap called Barry as they discuss the latest goings on in the world of gaming. This episode is packed with first look reviews of Uncharted 3, Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim and Barry reviews The Adventures of Tin-Tin in Full.

This month we wander through the Wardrobe of Geek Analysis to the magical land of Narnia. Joined by Timothy Swann of the Psycomedia (and others!) podcast, we plunge into the frozen wastes of fantasy godhood in the shape of everyone’s favourite Divine Lion.

Subjects Covered:

- Lewis vs Tolkien, the Inklings, and parallel development

- His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman and unintended messages

- Creation and Management of your own universe

- The Merits of Biting your enemy on the face over turning the cheek

- Leaders as Servants

- The Space Trilogy and Middle Earth Time Travel!

- And Much More!

Arthur C Clarke was of course a member of the British Interplanetary Society, a group of writers and engineers who were closely involved in the early British Space Program and Blue Streak Program in the 1950s/1960s. He never helped out the Doctor or battled alien ghosts at Hobb's end.(To our knowledge...)

The Charity EP Tim mentions is here: http://www.musicglue.net/purereasonrevolution/ and he has been kind enough to post his intimidating 13 pages of notes here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UrXvqMlrIA_N6fUy-BwlM_lUpNeuHUo99tDP-qyXNPw/edit
He is also on twitter @tetrachangel and Psycomedia is a quick google away.

Comments to dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk or harass us at @theGrampus for Matt or @clarkythecruel for Kehaar or for plain unadulterated pod news @DissectingWrlds

This week in the news we have:

• Rainbow 6 Patriots & Grand Theft Auto 5 announced
• Mass Effect 3 gets 3 single player game modes
• US Gamer spends $1,725 to get Modern Warfare 3 three days early
• Ant rants about DLC being on retail game disks
• DC Universe Online goes free to play

So this is it folks after five years and nearly 200 episodes the series finale of the weekly podcast that is Geek Syndicate is here.

For the last episode we threw out thoughts of planning and went out as we came in with a bottle of whisky and to quote Dr Jones 'making it up as we go'.

Enjoy and remember it's only the weekly podcast that is ending all the podcast on teh GS network will still be going as will the GS website. We will also still be doing audio interviews and features for the GS website as well as out new monthly project which will be annouced during this episode.

Thanks to everyone out there who has supported the weekly podcast over the last five years!

We out!

SO FOR ONE LAST TIME.... GET YER GEEK ON NINJAS!!!

Scrolls Book Group: A Song Of Ice And Fire

In 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.

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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: Secrets
32m 57s - A Clash Of Kings: War
59m 14s - A Storm Of Swords: Betrayal
1h 28m 30s - A Feast For Crows: Religion and Magic
1h 53m 10s - A Dance With Dragons: Use of Power

If 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: scrolls@hotmail.co.uk 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)!