Top Down Perspective

Sean starts us off with a depressing story from SF. He's also been playing a lot of Risk of Rain with Nathan and starting up Broken Age and The Room Two. Nathan finished Broken Age and is continuing through 999 and Darksiders while Jon is slowly playing more Pokemon Y and revisiting a bunch of old stuff. We got a bunch of news from all corners of the console market. Nintendo announces some of it's...

We're joined by a special guest this week: Vernon Shaw - the creator of Hot Pepper Gaming. He tells us about his time with Borderlands 2 and grinding on hamburger patties. Sean has been addicted to Risk of Rain all week. Nathan is playing a whole bunch of stuff in search of his next obsession and Jon is warming up to Pokemon Y.News sees Nintendo and not doing so well sales-wise and the "Nintendo F...

This week Jon takes the plunge into Pokemon Y, he also shows Sean and Nathan how to play Payday 2. Nathan gets real interested with Tomb Raider and 999 while Sean plays To The Moon and Nidhogg. For news we discuss the new update for Sim City, The Wolf Among Us gets a tentative release window and Michael Myers will be in CoD Ghosts.

Jon returns from his trip to MAGfest as well as a new addition to his family! Congrats to them. Sean enters the US and is now an ambassador. Nathan sits at home playing Cook, Serve, Delicious! We discuss the new Humble Bundle, PlayStation Now and the final chapter for Silicon Knights.

It's a new year and Jon is on his way to MAGFest while Sean and Nathan hold down the podcast fort. Nathan is way into Cook, Serve, Delicious as well as iOS game Paint it Back. Sean continues to play NFS Rivals, starts working through Papers, Please and plays the new Walking Dead episode. News is pretty barren due to the time of the year. The Nintendo eShop was down this holiday which also caused a...

It's our final episode of 2013 and it's also our Game of the Year special. We run through a number of different categories that we set up this year as well as our own personal Top 10 lists. As an added bonus this time we polled our community and have choices to highlight from you guys!

Announcement! We have set up a Community GotY survey for all of you guys to do. Please check out our various social networks for the link to it. Vote on this year's games so we can do some fun stuff with it on our GotY episode later this month! Jon is racing to get some 2013 games done and he starts up Saints Row 4 and The Last of Us. Sean plays through Crimson Dragon, Attack of the Friday Monster...

We're slowly getting ready for the end of the year as we begin to look back and play the games we missed. Sean plays Mario Party Island Tour, Kentucky Route Zero and Sonic and Sega All-Stars Transformed. Jon plays some of the new Zelda and Payday 2. Nathan finishes A Link Between Worlds and Saints Row 4 and still can't get away from Scurvy Scallywags. The VGXs happened this week so we spend a good...

We finally made it to the big 191 everybody! Sean and Nathan continue with A Link Between Worlds. Sean also tries out Xbox Fitness for the first time. Nathan gets really into State of Decay and Jon starts up the new Adventuretime game that has a name that is too long for me to go look up. News sees the death of some very important people this week. We also discuss the first batch of developers in...

We have all the new consoles now but we're all crazy into Super Mario 3D World. Sean does also talk about his new Xbox One and some of its cool and not so cool features. Nathan also dives into Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. There was some weird stuff going on with Twitch, the PS4, and the Playroom app so we discuss that. Jon Carmack leaves id Software for real and Swery65 seems to be interested in...

The PS4 and the Xbox One are now out and while Sean waits for his Xbox to show up he and Jon discuss their new Sony consoles. Resogun and Contrast are the PS4 games discussed most. Sean has also been playing a lot of Black Flag and the Battlefield4 campaign. Jon plays through all of Halo 4, Nathan checks out Brothers and Uncharted: Golden Abyss and then the two of them get deep into Super Mario 3D...

We're joined by special guest Jon Wheeler on this episode as he tells us about his time with Batman: Arkham Origins, Wii Party U and continues his way through Dream Team. Nathan can't stop playing Spelunky, goes back to Arkham City and plays through all of Call of Duty: Ghosts. Sean finishes up Saints Row 4, The Swapper and jumps into Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. There was a new Nintendo Direct...

Jon is away this week in the US so Sean and Nathan talk about their preparations for the PS4 coming out next week. Sean finished up Arkham Origins, Wii Party U and tried Typing of the Dead and The Swapper. Nathan dove back into a ton of stuff but also got to try out some PS4 games at the mall. News involves weird Internet Explorer girls, Jim Sterling leaving Destructoid, Microsoft giving Killer In...

We try out doing a Google Hangout for the main show for the first time. You can see the video archive on our YouTube page! We talk about Jon's Dead Space stream as well as whatever else we did for Halloween. Sean played more Pokemon as well as Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Batman: Arkham Origins. Nathan revisits Animal Crossing New Leaf, The Wolf Among Us and more Spelunky. There was quite a bi...

We spoil a lot in this but it's Pokemon so there really isn't that much in terms of story anyway. Sean sits down with Pixel Response's Paul Fleck to talk a bunch about the latest Pokemon games.

IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED OR DON'T WANT BEYOND: TWO SOULS SPOILED FOR YOU - DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS! Nathan and Sean sit down to talk some deep spoilers about Beyond: Two Souls.

We have all been playing a ton of games this week. Sean continues with Saints Row 4 as well as plays through Gone Home, a lot of Pokemon X, some of Cloudberry Kingdom and The Stanley Parable (along with Nathan and Jon). Nathan has also been playing Device 6, Spelunky and Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon. Jon is mainly playing a bunch of old games including Lego Batman 2 and Halo 3. In the news section we...

We announce that part 2 of our Japanese Sega Saturn live stream will be October 12th at 6 PM MT. We hope you can tune in and watch some weird games get played! Apart from that, we all discuss the newly released Beyond: Two Souls, we also talk a bit more about GTA5 and FTL, Escape Vector and Saints Row 4 get mentioned too.

Jon and Nathan went to this year's Pincade and Jon left with something very interesting! Nathan has been playing some GTAV Online, Sleeping Dogs and L.A. Noire. Sean finishes up Wind Waker HD and starts GTAV and FTL. Nintendo had a lackluster Nintendo Direct, Steam announces their controller plans and Sega has THE BEST preorder incentive EVER!

Jon is away, stuck in traffic, so Nathan and Sean create the BEST episode ever! Nathan talks more about GTAV and then his evil (better?) twin shows up and tells us how much he's enjoying Sleeping Dogs. Sean explains why The Wonderful 101 is a very odd game and starts playing Wind Waker HD.   Valve has basically taken over the news front this week with two of the three living room announcements alr...

GTAV is out this week and we spend a good deal of time talking about Nathan's enjoyment with it. Sean plays some PlayStation All-Stars and The Wonderful 101 while Jon packs up his things and continues with Mario & Luigi Dream Team. There's a ton of news this week including the death of Hiroshi Yamauchi, a new Nintendo Direct, Atlus being bought by Sega and Criterion Games splitting up.

We're all back for the entire length of this episode. Jon and Sean have been playing Disney Infinity. Sean also plays through Gunpoint and Botanicula while Nathan plays some more Far Cry 2 and Scurvy  Scallywags. Jon also plays some of The Wonderful 101. News is mainly Sony related with the recent Japanese press conference. We also discuss Steam's family mode and the new Humble Bundle.

Jon and Nathan return from Seattle to talk all about this year's PAX Prime. Sean quickly mentions his time with Rayman Legends and The Room Epilogue and we bring up some brief news. After than we jump right into the PAX talk, Sean's internet dies and everyone has a great time!

It's the week before PAX! Sean talks about his time with Pikmin 3, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and a little Plants vs. Zombies 2. Jon reviews the new Flashback as well as checks out Rayman Legends. Nathan revisits Runner 2 and Mirror's Edge. In the news section we talk about the just announced Nintendo 2DS, no more Microsoft points and a possible Xbox One release date.

Sean is away on vacation so Nathan and Jon talk about the games they played for an EXCEEDINGLY long time. New record, its gotta be. So, hear exhaustive breakdowns of the best desert island game around, Miasmata, the critical darling Gone Home, the fourth in a long-running series of quirky RPGs, Mario and Luigi Dream Team, the stylish follow-up to The Dishwasher, Charlie Murder, the perhaps unfortu...