Top Down Perspective

Jon returns from his incredible weekend at PAX East. We discuss the plane trip, air port mayhem and, of course, what he did at the show. Sean brings up his final moments with Tropical Freeze, The Wolf Among Us 3, Rusty's Real Deal Baseball and more InFamous Second Son. Obviously we talk about the Super Smash Bros. Nintendo Direct last week, we also mention a bunch of release dates that PAX East br...

Nathan can't join us this week unfortunately. We start off by discussing PAX East and Jon's upcoming trip there. He finishes up Yoshi's New Island and gives Minecraft a good try. Sean wraps up The Azran Legacy, continues with Tropical Freeze and starts InFamous Second Son. As for news, Amazon announces and releases the Fire TV and Amy Hennig now works for EA again.

Special Saturday edition! Sean continues with the latest Layton game as well as getting his feet wet with Tropical Freeze. He also watches the DOTA2 documentary: Free to Play. Nathan continues to work through South Park the Stick of Truth (Jon plays through all of it) and feeds his RPG hunger with Chrono Trigger on the DS. Jon finally finishes up Bravely Default and shares his strong opinions on Y...

If you haven't played through Bravely Default then do not listen to this episode! You have been warned. Jon and Sean get together to discuss everything they can think of from Bravely Default. We bring up what was great and what was so, so wrong with this weird JRPG.

Jon continues to trek through Bravely Default as he really wants it to end now. He also plays a good chunk of South Park: The Stick of Truth. Nathan finished up Remember Me, plays through Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and checks out Luftrousers and Towerfall Ascension. Sean continues with Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy. It's GDC week and Sony has announced their VR headset the Morpheus....

IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED 999 OR HAVE ANY INTEREST IN THIS GAME THEN DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE! Sean and Nathan get in deep with the mysteries of 999. We go through even plot point and bring up what was weird and what was weirder. We spoil everything we can think of in this fantastic DS adventure game.

Sean is back and has FINALLY conquered Bravely Default. Jon, meanwhile, has become trapped in an endless time loop, playing it for all eternity. Will he escape? Tune in next week to find out.  Sean also checked out Half Brick's latest, Bear vs Art and has begun playing the new entry in the Professor Layton series. And something called Oqonie? Sounds weird. Jon also began playing the latest Donkey...

Just Jon and Nathan (JoNathan) this week as Sean takes to the skies to visit his homeland.  Jon talks some Bravely Default and his favoritest game of yesteryear, Payday 2. Nathan tries to compare the adventure games of the east versus those of the west, centering on Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and the latest episode of Telltale's Walking Dead, "A House Divided".  Over in news, Batman is back...

This week Jon plugs in an Xbox One and continues to work through Bravely Default (along with Sean). We also discuss Beat Blasters 3 and Nathan plays through the latest Last of Us DLC. News is real interesting with the announcement of a Sega vs. Nintendo movie/book in the works, the Xbox One is finally getting Twitch integration in a few weeks and Waluigi is only going to be an assist trophy.

Sean returns with tales of the time travel lab he failed to escape from. He also checked out the Titanfall Beta this week and continues to work through Bravely Default with Jon too. Nathan is getting a little down on VLR and is still way into Threes (who isn't?). The big event for everyone is Twitch Plays Pokemon, let's be honest - it's really great. However we have to talk about more so we discus...

We have reached our 200th episode! Congrats everyone! Sean and Jon get way deep into Bravely Default. Nathan starts up VLR, continues with some Flappy Bird and is very much enjoying Threes (so is Sean). News has us discussing the hot topic of Flappy Bird, Nintendo's latest, and real good, Nintendo Direct, and Steam announces "tags".

It's a new week and games are really starting to roll now. Sean has started up Bravely Default (to Jon's jealousy), finished The Room 2 and played through episode 2 of The Wolf Among Us (as well as Nathan). Nathan also finishes 999 and jumps right into VLR and is real deep into OlliOlli and Lumines. Jon revisits Earthbound Zero and continues with Pokemon Y. Nintendo comments on their recent announ...

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...