Warhammer 40K SA Nationals 2016 – Report

This past weekend played host to the Warhammer 40K Nationals tournament run by the crew from the Cabal up in Pretoria. With a great deal of rules updates and clarifications in play with the Errata provided by Games Workshop and an increase in the points allowance it was bound to be an interesting tournament. I […]


Episode 22 – Achin for some Bacon

Friends, listeners, roleplayers…. My good people! Lend us your ears As this month we have returning guest Carla Harris on to chat about the amazing work she is doing with Bacon Battalion as well as roleplaying tips in general. We also mention a review we did of Abi Godsell‘s relative Scale, so if you missed […]


MEDIEVAL FAYRE 2016 – Great Geek Challenge

Polish up your platemail and dust off your best set of Robes, cause it’s Medieval Fayre time! We’ll be there at Inanda Country Base in Kyalami on the 3rd of September! Here is the Event itself if you’re keen for directions. Of course, We’re going to be running another Great Geek Challenge whilst we’re there, […]


Book Review: Relative Scale 1

A while back you may remember we had the great opportunity to speak to an up and coming local SciFi author Abi Godsell about her book series Idea War and I’m happy to say I was offered an Advance Review Copy of her new upcoming work, a compilation of stories set to be released this coming 7,8,9 […]


Episode 20 – ICON’t believe it!

It’s June and ICON 2016 has come and gone! Join us as we give a bit of feedback on what we got done at the convention. This is just the first half of this months episode! The rest will come later in the form a panel on Podcasting we did at ICON! Stay Tuned!   […]


ICON 2016 – Great Geek Challenge

Big news! Our Fancy New Website is up and running thanks to the folks over at Britehouse! You could do it the old fashioned way and follow the link HERE OR You could use a QR code scanning application like THIS ONE for Android, THIS ONE for WINDOWS Phones or THIS ONE for Iphone (Don’t […]


Episode 19 – Publishing Plots 2

Hey all, This months episode is up! Gregg has returned from his mysterious journey to the North, so join us as we chat with the Owner of Sera Blue publishing, Kelan Gerriety, as we discuss publishing in South Africa If you’ve ever wanted to learn the ins and outs of publishing, this is the episode […]


Episode 18 – Preparing for Judgement Day

May May May! What does May mean? Mothers Day! Err… Besides that… What does May mean? It’s Geekfest time! Thats right, with Gregg being imprisoned all the way in Malaysia through the sinister binds of a fiendish work contract, Douw must take on the podcast solo, as he sits down with guests Ryan Young and […]


GEEKFEST 2016 – Great Geek Challenge 2

It’s that time of year again folks! Geekfest 2016 is upon us and man have we got a Great Geek Challenge of note lined up for you to remember! What’s a GGC you ask? The GREAT GEEK CHALLENGE is a simple concept. Born from the desire to “cross pollinate” the various geeky pursuits at a […]


Episode 17 – Saving the Arturi Cluster

April has come and easter has gone! I hope none of you got tricked on April fools day and managed to get all your geeky hobbies some time during those wonderful Easter holidays! This month, we have Chris Dean back on the show. together, we discuss the amazing X-wing co-op campaign, Heroes of the Aturi […]


Episode 16 – Game Mastery and you!

We find ourselves in March and this month we’ve brought you our chat with Guy Sclanders over at Bacon Battalion so that we can chat about all things game master related when it comes to roleplaying games. From our thoughts on how you should go about a campaign, to focusing on individual players needs in […]


Episode 15 – Literary Loquations 1

February is upon us! We are 1/12th of the way into the year already and this month we are joined by Local Author Abi Godsell. We discuss the trials and tribulations of her local authorship journey as well as her current works, as well as all other things book related. As a special bonus, Abi […]


Episode 14 – The Ins and Outs of Game Development in South Africa

What a hot of a new year! Welcome to 2016, to start it off for you we’ve chatted with Jonathan Hau-Yoon about the exciting and developing field that is game development in South Africa! You may know Jono and the studio he works for by the game “Broforce” on steam! Jump right in and listen […]


Episode 13 – Prognostication Redux

It’s our Birthday Episode! We’re back with gazing into the future, but first we check out and see exactly how well we did last year and who exactly gets to wear the mystical hat of grand fortune telling! As always for our predictions episode we are joined by Les Allen from GeekXP fame and this […]


Into the Fray

This past weekend it was Into the Fray, 3+’s annual wargaming tournament featuring all sorts of different gaming systems and with it being the 10th anniversary edition some great prizes were on offer for the winners (a paid for flight down to Cape Town for the winner of the X-Wing tournament definitely being the biggest) […]


Overwatch beta weekend Impressions from a Joburg gamer. 2

It looks great but can I play it with our Ping? Over the past weekend I was lucky enough to get into the stress test beta for Overwatch. Being a bit dubious about the game’s release considering that no localised servers had been announced, I seized on to the opportunity to see if our local […]


Episode 12 – Watching the Internet

We are joined this month by the folks from 925 Rebellion, who sit down and chat to us about what it takes to be a youtube channel content creator! We also discuss various forms of digital entertainment you can find on the internet. Enjoy the show! PS: Don’t forget our <strong>”Hulk-uu”</strong> Contest  listen to the […]


Winner Results – Great Geek Challenge WARCON 2015

WARCON 2015 is done! Jeppe quondam bowling club saw many avid wargamers descending (and this time everyone who entered actually put their names on the forms! Huzza!) Special Thanks to our supporters at the convention who gave us some prizes Now, down to business! First off, Our champion this year for WARCON is the lovely Danelle Pretorius with […]


WARCON 2015 – Great Geek Challenge Form

This years WARCON Great Geek Challenge form is up! You can get it right here: WARCON 2015 – Great Geek Challenge – Preprint Form <strong>Whats the Great Geek Challenge you ask?</strong> Well it’s a series of challenges or tasks you need to complete when you head on out to a convention or festival. Then, after you’re […]