Old and New “Syndicate”

I wonder how hard a heart you have to have for remakes to not like this trailer.

Bad News Kids!

Character Concept Art

Bad News Kids is a brand new online comic from the creative team behind Space Radio, Jared Throne and Hillmon Ancrum. Chaper one of the webcomic, a full 24-pages, is available to read for free online on their website (see link below). It sets up the story brilliantly and leaves you wanting, no, begging for more.

DC’s Graphic Novels Coming Exclusivly to the Kindle Fire

With the Kindle Fire announced this week Amazon also announced some deals with the likes of Fox to provide users with some exclusive content. Well they’ve done a deal with DC to bring whole graphic novels to the Tablet Device. Which is just another reason to buy Amazons new wonder device!

DC ENTERTAINMENT DIGITAL GRAPHIC NOVELS AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON THE NEWLY-ANNOUNCED KINDLE FIRE, INCLUDING BEST-SELLING GRAPHIC NOVELS ‘WATCHMEN,’ ‘BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY’ AND ‘SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE’, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER DIGITALLY

Industry-Leading Graphic Novel and Comic Publisher to offer 100 Digital Books Exclusively to Kindle Customers

BURBANK, Calif., Sept. 29, 2011- DC Entertainment, the first publisher to offer more than fifty comic book titles on the same day in digital and print, is now taking the world of digital books by storm.  The comic book giant has worked with Amazon to bring 100 of its original graphic novels exclusively to Amazon’s newly announced Kindle Fire, including best-selling graphic novels  WATCHMEN, BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY and SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE, which are available for the first time digitally.

“Syndicate” Official Announcement Trailer

So, the plundering of old cult gamer IPs continue with EA/Starbreeze’s remake (or reimagining) of Bullfrog Classic Syndicate. In the spirit of the age it’ll be a First-Person Shooter with RPG elements, but speaking as someone still loving the heck out of Deux Ex: Human Revolution I can’t say i see that as a bad thing.

New of the game has been around for a couple of weeks but the Official Trailer is out today. And here it is:

A lot of that looks like gameplay footage, with some very cool looking abilities.

Dark Futures Book 17: Jennifer Government

Dark Futures is a 20-book exploration of the fears of our futures, an odd sub-genre of Science Fiction that draws in on the society of the time and projects it forward, into uncomfortable visions of the world to be. The idea is the same across many books, the results, very different.  This week we take a welcome turn for the lighter, with some fast-moving satire.

Geek Syndicate Episode 191 – Merlin Series 4 Special with Julian Jones

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.

Kevin Smith Invades the UK with Red State Friday.

Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, many more) is bringing his latest– and, he says, close to his last– directorial effort will step foot into the UK after the Red State tour marches into Canada.

Batman: Arkham City Xbox 360 bundle incoming

Microsoft are set to release a Batman: Arkham City Xbox 360 hardware bundle on October 21, the same day game come out in the UK. The bundle will consist of a matte black 250GB Xbox 360 S with matching controller and headset and plus a copy of the game.

Eurogamer Expo game of the show announced

Eurogamer Network, Europe’s leading independent games media specialist, is delighted to announce that Guild Wars 2 has been named Editors’ Game of the Show at Eurogamer Expo 2011.

Say Goodbye to Doctor Who Confidential

As with many things, it all comes down to money. The Guardian announced that BBC has decided to cancel BBC3′s Doctor Who Confidential as part of the company’s cost cutting programs. The show, which had been airing since 2005, was a behind-the-scenes look at the making of long-running sci-fi drama also included interviews with the cast and crew. It will come to a close at the end of this series.

So what will end up in BBC3′s early evening time slots? Mainly repeats of BBC1 shows in any effort to create more synergy between the two channels.

A spokeswoman for the BBC said: “Doctor Who Confidential has been a great show for BBC3 over the years but our priority now is to build on original British commissions, unique to the channel.”

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GS Reporter: Sharlene

London Comic Con get’s a TEEN WOLF

Fans of the new hit series Teen Wolf will not want to miss this as 2 of the stars of the show head to London to hit the floor of Comic Con.

Images from Eurogamer Expo 2011

Here’s a few photos from this years Eurogamer Expo.

Star Wars The Old Republic was a big draw as was this working R2 D2

The Daltons’ Escape (Cinebook Review 2)

It’s fair to say that most British people’s knowledge of Belgian and French comics begin and end with just two series – Tin-Tin and Asterix – be it from English translations in the library or the animated adventures rented from video shops.  For Geek Syndicate I am looking a little deeper, continuing my excursion courtesy of the wonderful Cinebook who translate and publish for the British market.

To this end I found myself reading Lucky Luke last night.  Now, this is a cowboy character that I was actually vaguely familiar with from my GCSE French days, when the cursed Mrs Weir dumped a book on each desk in the expectation that pictures would somehow make the languge fit into our brains better. (Non.)  I always wondered whether it was any good or not but sadly never became proficient enough at French to find out and (until now) never got my hands on an English translation.  One of the creators is Goscinny, of Asterix fame, so my expectations and hopes were high.

The IMMORTALS are here!

Behold humans the final trailer for the latest epic battle between the gods and the humans well sort of.

Eureka farewell at MCM Expo London Comic Con

For fans of the hit show this is your chance to say bye to the people behind the hit show Eureka at the London MCM Expo.