Top Down Perspective

Jon is away being sick this week so Nathan and Sean kick things off by talking about Kick-Ass 2. Sean then shares his thoughts on finishing the first Phoenix Wright as well as starting out with Pikmin 3. Nathan discusses more Papers, Please, Bully and how he can't wait for Gone Home. News has us talking about more policy changes with the Xbox One, a new slate of Humble Bundles to get REALLY excite...

Sean returns to talk about ibb & obb, Phoenix Wright and Hundreds. Jon talks about his upcoming video reviews and Nathan brings up Red Dead Redemption and Papers, Please! As for news, there was a new Nintendo Direct last week, Gone Home gets a release date and Saints Row 4 gets the most ridiculous special edition ever.

It's a knee-slapper this week...that'll make sense a minute or two in. Sorry.  Just Nathan and Jon this week, as they talk open-world games such as Saint's Row the Third and Red Dead Redemption, the final hours of the Cloudberry Kingdom Infinity Cup, The Swapper, The Walking Dead 400 Days and more!  Then we discuss the recent Phil Fish twitter drama surrounding Fez II, some recent upcoming game an...

The Steam sale is over and we wrap up our experiences with it. Jon continues to play Deadpool and Project X Zone as well as checking out Picross e2. Nathan is playing a ton of games including Tomb Raider, Uncharted 3 and ZombiU. Sean finishes up Trine and plays through Cherry Tree High Comedy Club. In the news section we discuss how Atlus is being sold off, Microsoft announcing that the Xbox One w...

It's the Summer Steam Sale and we're talking about the games we've bought and the cards we've collected! Jon also brings up Deadpool and the new Streetpass games/update. Nathan goes through a whole bunch including The Witcher 2, Blood Dragon and the new Call of Juarez. Sean revists Trine and tries out Antichamber. As for the news, we discuss Sony's PLAY line-up of games this summer as well as thei...

We start off by expressing our thoughts on Ryan Davis's passing. He meant a lot to us. Jon has been playing Deadpool, Project X Zone and Epic Mickey on the 3DS. Nathan plays through Alan Wake's The Signal and Gunpoint. Sean reviews The Walking Dead 400 Days and checks out Badland. As for news we have some odd EVO related decisions from Nintendo, China might start allowing game consoles again and t...

This week Jon is talking all about Picross E and Super Luigi U with Sean. Sean also brings up more of The Last of Us and gushes over Game & Wario. Nathan talks The Last Man and Demon Souls. The news section brings up the recent decision from Microsoft to stop charging for patches, DoubleFine asking for more money for Broken Age and Klei Entertainment announces a new game.

Jon's back from his trip to talk about Disneyland and some game convention before his internet dies on us and leaves. Nathan has been playing a lot of games starting with the letter 'A' and Sean talks about The Last of Us some more. News is short but we discuss the latest Layton game that appeared on iOS, a couple games getting banned in Australia and some MGS1 remake confusion.

Our schedules didn't work together this week so you're getting two back to back solocasts in this episode. Jon is still away on his vacation so Nathan is up first with what he's been playing. He talks about Animal Crossing New Leaf and last year's XCOM. Sean comes in next to talk about The Last of Us, Thomas Was Alone and, also, Animal Crossing New Leaf.

This is the longest episode I think we've ever recorded. Clocking in at nearly 3 hours, you get to listen to all our thoughts about E3 2013. We run through the four press conferences and Nintendo Direct that happened on the opening days. Nathan and Jon then go into great detail about the games they played while down in LA.

The three of us are all together and here to share our thoughts on how our Japanese Sega Saturn live stream went. Sean talks about finishing up 999 and playing some Ouendan and Proteus. Nathan talks about a few Mario games and a bunch of NES stuff and Jon brings up a few games from an earlier live stream of his. News is real packed this week with a few announcements dealing with the Xbox One. We a...

Sean has returned from his trip overseas with grand tales of his travels. We discuss some of the games and toys he purchased as well as some upcoming plans. Nathan isn't here this week and Jon discusses Final Fantasy 8 while Sean talks about 999. News is scarce since E3 is getting close but we talk about the ending of Curiosity, Double Fine's new Kickstarter and the two Humble Bundles currently go...

One of our international travelers has returned! Jon is back to talk about the Xbox One (or is it Xone, Xbone or X1?) and a smattering of other news, as well as Witch and Hero, that new-fangled Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Mario's latest Minis escapade on the 3DS. Nathan finally hit the bottom of the Hotline Miami barrel (if Cactus is reading this, level-editor in the sequel, PLEASE make it happ...

It's a Ramblin' Rohr! Sean and Jon are jet-setting around the planet, so its just Nathan alone in a basement talking to himself. But hey, that's its own kind of weird fun, right? RIGHT? Anyway, topics this week range from Metro 2033 to the sudden change in policy towards Let's Players Nintendo just unleashed. That topic is way too big for one man, but I rattle off some thoughts, along with another...

It's the last episode before Jon and Sean take off traveling for a bit. Nathan and Jon have been playing the browser game Candy Box while Sean finishes up DmC and Fire Emblem Awakening, he also discovers Doritos Crash Course 2. As for the news: EA secures exclusive rights to any future Star Wars games, Penny Arcade puts out a controversial kickstarter, weird happenings with Ubisoft employees and B...

The Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo was this last week and Jon and Nathan discuss their time there. Jon's been playing Double Dragon while Nathan revisits Super Mario Land 2 and Sean plays through Poker Night 2 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. We also discuss the new video game themed Story Bundle, legal trouble for 5th Cell and Call of Duty: Ghost is announced.

Jon and Sean played their way through Injustice: Gods Among Us so they spend a good deal of time talking about that. Nathan has been playing the old Yoshi's Island. As for news, Nintendo won't be having a major press conference this year at E3, Microsoft announced the date of their next-xbox announcement presentation and Phoenix Wright HD gets delayed again.

This week Nathan finishes up Bioshock Infinite and checks out 2010's Vanquish. Jon plays the new Injustice and gets us talking a whole lot about DC comics. Sean beats Metal Gear Rising and Guacamelee. The main news is that Nintendo had a major Nintendo Direct conference this week and we discuss all the information that came out of that. Team Bondi isn't looking the best, Skyrim is getting no more...

It's not the length of the show but it's how you use it? I dunno. The three of us are back and discussing Bioshock Infinite, Guacamelee, Puzzle Agent 2 and something Jon played. As for news, Batman Arkham Origins is announced, more talk on Durango rumors and another studio shuts down.

This week Sean and Jon get more in depth with Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon as well as Sean's time with Bioshock Infinite. Nathan looks to Telltale and plays some Jurassic Park and Puzzle Agent. We also discuss LucasArts being closed down and the loss of Star Wars 1313 along with Roger Ebert passing away.

Jon returns from PAX East to tell us about his time there, the games he played, and the fun he got up to. Sean talks about The Cave and Gears of War Judgement while Nathan discusses Papers, Please. We also bring up the announcement of MGSV, Ducktales and the XCOM being ported to iOS.

Nathan is away sick but Sean grabs hold of Jon for a bit before he heads off to PAX East. Jon plays through all of Lords of Shadow this week as well as gives us an idea of what he'll be playing on his plane rides to and from Boston. Sean plays through all of Lego City Undercover and the new Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3. News has a huge list of release date, new game and platform announcements tha...

When we're not discussing vikings we talk about how Tomb Raider is out while Nathan finishes Skyward Sword and tells us about Ridiculous Fishing. News is short: we bring up more info on the SimCity issues this last week, Ron Gilbert leaving Double Fine and some tension between Xi3 and Valve.

Nathan gets way into Skyward Sword this week and Jon continues to work his way through Fire Emblem. Sean plays through Runner 2 and To the Moon. In the news section we discuss a significant resignation from Respawn and the major issues surrounding the launch of SimCity.

This week Sean and Jon continue along with Fire Emblem. Jon also talks about Metal Gear Rising and Sean finishes up Assassin's Creed 3 and looks at Pudding Monsters. Nathan starts Skyward Sword and also plays through current iOS hit Year Walk. As for the news, the Ouya gets some interesting developers on board, more Walking Dead coming from Telltale before season two and Microsoft is have a cool s...