Top Down Perspective

This week the guys are play Halo: Reach, Rock Band 3, Mass Effect 2 (also reading the books) and Jon is playing some old GBA games that I can't remember. On the news side we have the Duke Nukem Forever release date, the announcement of Final Fantasy XIII-2 and a ton of 3DS (launch)news. All that and more on this week's Top Down Perspective.

Jon is away at Magfast so Nathan and Sean are left to run the show. Sean finishes Super Meat Boy along with testing out some iOS Rock Band games and Nathan started up Mass Effect 2 again in anticipation for....Mass Effect 2. Pac-Man reality shows are announced, Mortal Kombat webisodes are in production, more PSP2 rumors come forth and more are discussed on this weeks TDP.

Our Game of the Year episode is now here. The three of us run through our own personal lists of the ten best games we think came out in 2010 and discuss why they belong here.

TDP rings in the new year by wrapping up some last minute games from 2010. We discuss Kirby's Epic Yarn, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Digital: A Love Story, Shaun White's Skateboarding, Amnesia and more. You can also expect the exciting conclusion to The Tester season 2, Tron cats and a whole lot more as we get ready for next week's Game of the Year show!

This week we run through some Enslaved, Poker Night, Golden Sun, Machinarium, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and much more. We talk about the third and second last episode of the Tester as well as preorder Mortal Kombat business. Games you can play by peeing, the VGAs, a Gran Turismo reality TV show and GAMES YOU CAN PLAY BY PEEING.

This week the show continues without Jon. Nathan went back for some more Vin Diesel while Sean spent more time with Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and DJ Hero 2. We also run through this week's episode of The Tester and discuss some recent game announcements. Team Meat is quite funny and photo taking is back in Dead Rising: Case Zero. We get some more information on the Uncharted movie and the US a...

It’s a four man show this week with Pixel Response’s own Paul Fleck joining the regular crew for some gabbin’ bout games (one of Nathan’s early ideas for a name for this very podcast, fun fact). Various games have been played including s’more of that Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, more Pac-Man CE DX and a dash of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood for good measure. Not to mention Pitfall II: The Lost Cave...

Despite a smashed up arm, Sean joins Jon and Nathan to share his thoughts on some of this season’s big titles, such as Fable III and Criterion’s latest, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. All three of us managed to log some time with Pac Man Championship Edition DX (Deluxe?) and we gush over it thoroughly, perhaps to excess (you decide). In addition, we can safely say that Kirby loves him some cake, Vin...

Call of Duty: Black Ops is here! Sadly, none of the core crew has played it, but never you mind because we managed to drag Dustin away from the game long enough to share his thoughts while enduring Sean’s sarcastic barbs. We also discuss other recent releases such as Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage, a batch of Kinect titles and Fallout: New Vegas (what? it’s still newish!). Then we (well, Jon a...

THE TESTER SEASON TWO IS HERE! Along with the three of us talking about Costume Quest, Borderlands and Red Dead Redemption DLC, Fallout: New Vegas, Mario anniversaries and more!

This week the gang is all together to discuss DJ Hero 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Costume Quest, Alan Wake: The Writer and Super Meat Boy. Along with Kinect launch games, the Tester season 2's trailer and Red Dead Redemption's Sasquatch.

This week Sean is away but the podcast goes on! Comic Jumper, GameDev Story, Raven Software and Duke Nukem demos are abound.

This week we discuss more Dead Rising 2 frustration, Comic Jumper, Enslaved, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and GAME BOAT!

This week Jon is gone but Nathan and Sean played a ton of Dead Rising 2. Nathan also did some more Halo: Reach but who cares cause Sean played Quantum Theory! He also spent a very little amount of time with Claptrap's New Robot Revolution. On the news side: Microsoft announces a great October deal. Also, the Just Cause movie gets a screen writer, the 3DS gets a release date and price for Japan and...

Jon is back and talking about Guilty Party and Dead Rising: Case Zero. Sean has been addicted to Professor Layton. Nathan on the other hand spent some time with Minecraft and Civilization V. The Tester season 2 has an air date and cast, Netflix comes to Canada and PS3's are updated to block out some third party controllers. Along with this, Halo Reach doesn't land first in the top ten played games...

This week Jon is sick and Sean messes up the release date of Comic Jumper repeatedly! Nathan talks Dead Rising: Case Zero, Shibuya and Halo: Reach. Sean brings up Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Puzzle Agent, Guilty Party and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. As for news, the Tokyo Game Show is happening and a smorgasbord of announcements come out. The next Devil May Cry game is announced...

We're back from the Penny Arcade Expo and we're here with and extra long edition of TDP. We discuss games like Duke Nukem Forever, Sonic 4, Dance Central, Hydrophobia, Bastion, Killzone 3, Portal 2 and much, much, MUCH more.

This week Nathan starts us off with some talk on older PC games and moves into the XBLA version of Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Sean picks up from there and rolls into some Shank and Monopoly. Jon finishes off with more Scott Pilgrim. On the news side, Microsoft strictly watching Halo: Reach pirates and is sending out beta testing kits for its new Kinect peripheral. Sony slows down sales on the new...

Nathan starts us off with some Fallout 3 and moves into Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. Sean also shares his time with K&L2 along with X-Men Origins Wolverine, Bioshock 2 and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Jon wraps us up with Adventure Island, more of his usual old games and one very obscure Mario game at the end. Gamescon is going on this week in Germany and we get news such as Mortal Kombat ge...

Once again we have Dustin here to fill in a fourth chair. He talks about his time with Star Craft 2. Nathan gets into detail about Wet, Peggle, Fallout 3 and a bit much on Spy Fiction. Jon talks Ducktales and Scott Pilgrim vs the World: The Game. And Sean wraps up with more Singularity and Split/Second. Duke Nukem Forever might not be dead as well as the outcome of the Penny Arcade game series as...

Due to technical difficulties, we ended up losing the last ten minutes of the podcast. This week we bring on a special guest and get in some brief talk on Starcraft 2. Nathan and Sean talk a bit more about The Signal as well as get into depth on Singularity. Jon finishes us up with some Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Pokemon Black and White will have exclusively new pokemon until you beat the ga...

Nathan kicks us off with some of his Limbo wrap up, The Club and the Kane & Lynch 2 demo. He and Sean also discuss their opinions on Clash of the Titans and Alan Wake's first piece of DLC: The Signal. Sean also brings up some of the Darkness and more on Wanted: Weapons of Fate. Jon wraps us up with Klonoa 2 and Dragon Quest 9. When it comes to news we talk about punishing people in Halo: Reach, So...

We talk about a ton of movies this week but that doesn't stop Sean from bringing up Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Red Dead Redemption and, along with Nathan, Limbo. Jon talks about Chrono Trigger DS, Apollo Justice and how he can't seem to start Dragon Quest IX. Nathan finishes what we've been playing with Death Spank. The San Diego Comic Con is on so we run down some of its more video game centered an...

Nathan is back and taking about the games he bought during the Steam sale. He also shares his opinion on Crackdown 2 and talks a bit about Half Life 2. Sean lists off the games he's recently bought and goes into detail about Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Sega Superstars Tennis, Infamous, Hail to the Chimp and Bionic Commando. In terms of news, 1 vs. 100 on the 360 is not coming back for a third season...

This week Sean gets a little more deep into his feelings on Crackdown 2. He also talks about his time with Peggle and the always exciting Feeding Frenzy 2. Jon then brings up his opinion on Death Smiles and shares which games he purchased during Xbox Live's arcade sale. More development unfolds on the ex-Infinity Ward team vs. Activision. We also talk about the recently announced Dragon Age 2 and...