Claire Wheeler, Paul Fleck, Sean Booker

Top Down Perspective

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Join Paul Fleck, Sean Booker and Claire Wheeler as they address recent video game news and releases, while also hypothesizing about the industry at large.

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Claire Wheeler, Paul Fleck, Sean Booker

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Oct 16, 2026

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Episodes

Top Down Perspective 21/02/13 23.02.2013

This week we rush through a bit (yet still end with an hour and a half long episode). Sean and Jon are continuing with Fire Emblem Awakening quite a bit. Sean also finished Ni No Kuni and The Room along with Nathan. News is the big deal this week! Another Nintendo Direct happens showing off the "Year of Luigi", Hotline Miami is coming to the Vita, The Room is getting a sequel and that's about it.....

Top Down Perspective 13/02/13 14.02.2013

This Valentine's episode finds Jon playing some more Sonic '06 and Fire Emblem: Awakening. Sean continues with Ni No Kuni and also tried out iOS games: Borderlands Legends and The Room. Nathan plays some WarioWare and the original Metroid. News is scarce. We discuss more happenings around the Rayman Legends delay, another studio closes and some controversy is surrounding the new Aliens game.

Top Down Perspective 07/02/13 08.02.2013

Jon's here talking about Parasite Eve as well as some more Fire Emblem: Awakening with Sean. Sean also continues his trek through Ni No Kuni and Nathan finishes up Phantom Hourglass. News on the Ouya and Durango surface as well as some details about the next Assassin's Creed and Rayman Legends being delayed.

Top Down Perspective 31/01/13 02.02.2013

This week Sean continues his way through the never ending Ni No Kuni, he's also playing Fire Emblem: Awakening along with Jon. Jon also continues to enjoy Sonic '06. Nathan discusses his time with the Global Game Jam and all the games he got to see be made. News is scarce but we talk about a possible PS4 announcement, Junction Point closing and the release date reveal of GTA5.

Top Down Perspective 24/01/13 26.01.2013

This week Sean is playing through a couple visual novels, a couple iOS games and the big release this week: Ni No Kuni. Nathan plays some Skyrim. KRUNCH and The Cave and Jon is playing Sonic '06 for some reason. And liking it. A bunch of news dropped this week. The final chapter of the THQ bankruptcy is revealed and Nintendo drops word on Windwaker HD, Fire Emblem X Shin Megami Tensei, Miiverse on...

Top Down Perspective 18/01/13 18.01.2013

We're all back for a regular episode and have been playing a lot. Nathan plays new iOS hit Hundreds. Jon is checking out DmC as well as Wake Up Club with Sean. Sean also finishes up Gravity Rush and starts playing Analogue: A Hate Story. There's a lot of news including information on the Steam box from CES, more updates on THQ, Dead Island Riptide's collector's edition, new Pokemon games announced...

Top Down Perspective - GOTY 2012 Edition 13.01.2013

I'm pretty sure we didn't actually do much spoiler talking this time. Just tread lightly. It's that time of year again! We all sit down and run through our own personal top ten games of 2012! We also add a few other categories to the episode this time including Most Disappointing and our future Predictions. And as a bonus, we invited Pixel Response's Paul Fleck to come and join us for the fun time...

Top Down Perspective 03/01/13 04.01.2013

Jon is away at MAGfest which leaves Nathan and Sean to host our last episode before the GOTY special. Nathan has been playing Mark of the Ninja and Shank 2 along with more Spaceteam (same with Sean). Sean has also been playing Dance Central 3 and Forza Horizon. News is scarce but we discuss the first footage of Activision's The Walking Dead game as well as Sony filing for a patent that may fight a...

Top Down Perspective 28/12/12 29.12.2012

For our final episode of the year we are unfortunately one man short. But while Jon is away Nathan and Sean discuss Cart Life, Sin Episodes, Binary Domain, Rayman Jungle Run and some more Hotline Miami. News is incredibly small but includes more info on the War Z issues, Xbox 360 achievements showing up on an iOS game and a new Final Fantasy 13 game has been announced.

Top Down Perspective 20/12/12 21.12.2012

This might be our last episode before the new year but we're still playing games and needing to talk about them. Jon continues with PlayStation All Stars as well as checks our Journey. Nathan is playing quite a few older games and begins to really sink his teeth into ZombiU while Sean starts up Assassin's Creed 3, and plays around with Wreckateer and Kinect Party. News is light but we discuss what...

Top Down Perspective 13/12/12 14.12.2012

This week we're finally starting to go through some of our backlogs. Sean is playing Scribblenauts Unlimited, Spec Ops: The Line and Hotline Miami. Jon is playing Dino City, PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale and continuing with Paper Mario Sticker Star and Nathan tried out some old SNES games as well as revisited Portal 2. As for news, Nathan checked out the last Nintendo Power issue, Sportsfrie...

Top Down Perspective 07/12/12 08.12.2012

It's just kind of a lazy week right now. Jon and Sean are playing through Paper Mario Sticker Star as well as Skrillex Quest and some more Super Hexagon. Nathan is playing A Virus Named TOM and Little Inferno. News is short but we discuss the various leaked images of the final Nintendo Power, Bioshock Infinite getting delayed and Europe's bizarre M-rated WiiU games rules.

Top Down Perspective 30/11/12 01.12.2012

This week Jon has been trying out a good deal of Nintendoland, Scribblenauts Unlimited and continues his time with Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Nathan played some original Warioware as well as Real Lives 2010 while Sean finishes up Pokemon Black 2, Lego Lord of the Rings and talks briefly about Super Hexagon. In the news section we discuss the Wii Mini, a list of games being introduced to the MoMA a...

TDP Spoilin' Games: The Walking Dead 30.11.2012

WARNING! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE IF YOU DON'T WANT THE WALKING DEAD VIDEO GAME TO BE SPOILED FOR YOU!!! This week Sean joins the Pixel Response to chat with Paul and Nathan (who is also from TDP, in case you didn't know!) to spoil the crap out of Telltell Games's The Walking Dead series. We get into every detail we can possibly think of and go through almost every major decision you can come...

Top Down Perspective - 22/11/12 23.11.2012

The WiiU has launched as we've all been playing around with it. We discuss a number of the launch titles and how we feel about the console itself. Jon talks about Paper Mario Sticker Star and Sean and Nathan talk Walking Dead episode five. Double Fine is opening up more of their development strategies to the public with Amnesia Fortnight. We also talk about Nintendo TVii being delayed, Microsoft K...

Top Down Perspective 14/11/12 16.11.2012

Busy making videos Jon is so it's a two man show this week. Sean played through Avengers: Battle for Earth as well as about half of Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. Nathan went back for some Super Mario Galaxy as well as Frog Fractions. In the news centre you'll hear us talking about Dennis Dyack, PlayStation Plus coming to Vita, Tom Hardy's acting career and Walking Dead Episode five!

Top Down Perspective 08/11/12 10.11.2012

It's Jon's birthday so make sure to wish him a good day! He's been playing Scott Pilgrim and Blur while Sean finally starts up Pokemon Black 2 and goes through Halo 4. Nathan has been spending a lot of time with the new iOS My Little Pony game. As for news, a collected Assassin's Creed package has shown up online, GTA 5 information is starting to come out, Microsoft has a crappy new reward incenti...

Top Down Perspective 26/10/12 29.10.2012

Jon is still playing a lot of Crosswords Plus as well as Code of Princess. Nathan is getting crazy into Hotline Miami and Sean is trying out a few free XBLA titles as well as the newly available Windows 8. Not much is going on with news but we discuss the retail release of Telltale's The Walking Dead game, the Borderlands iOS game announcement and an interesting debate on game journalism and spons...

Top Down Perspective - 18/10/12 19.10.2012

This week Jon is away on a super secret mission so Sean and Nathan are holding down the fort. Nathan has been playing Dear Esther, Fling Smash, Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf, as well as others while Sean has been playing Just Dance 4 and trying to play the new Borderlands 2 DLC. As for news, Steam has a new line up of games for Greenlight, the next ME3 DLC is detailed and Deadly Premonition ge...

Top Down Perspective 11 - 10 - 12 12.10.2012

Everyone's here and Jon is finally settled into his new place. He's been playing a bunch of 3DS games while Sean finishes Borderlands 2 and plays through Dear Esther. Nathan plugs in his NES to play a few games as well as the entirety of Spec Ops: The Line. As for news, the actor who plays Kevin Butler is in some legal trouble, the card game Fluxx is coming to iOS and the people behind the Humble...

Top Down Perspective 04 - 10 - 12 05.10.2012

Jon is away this week so we're joined by Paul Fleck of Pixel Response. He's been playing some Borderlands 2 (same with Sean) and Binary Domain, while Sean finishes off Jack Lumber. Nathan is currently stuck trying to find a game to hold his attention. As for the news, the WiiU launch lineup has been announced, Cliff Bleszinski leaves Epic Games and Xbox Live is now offering "rewards" based on your...

Top Down Perspective 27 - 09 - 12 28.09.2012

Borderlands 2 continues to hold Sean and Jon's attention for the majority of this week while Nathan tries out recent downloadables Hell Ya! and Tokyo Jungle. As for news: Will Powers (winner of season one of The Tester) gets fired from Sony and has some choice words for them, both Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect are getting trilogy releases, and EA cancels their basketball game again.

Top Down Perspective 20 - 09 - 12 21.09.2012

Jon now owns an arcade cabinet after going to a local convention last weekend. Nathan has been playing a lot of FTL, while Sean goes through Mark of the Ninja and (along with Jon) enjoys himself some Borderlands 2. In the news category you'll find information all about the new PS3 model, a ton of stuff going on at Bioware and the new Humble Bundle is available for purchase.

Top Down Perspective 13 - 09 - 12 14.09.2012

This week we're finally back to the standard formula and we have a ton of games to talk about. After three weeks we've each got a huge list consisting of Rock Band Blitz, Walking Dead: Episode 3, Papo & Yo, Robocop Vs. the Terminator and much, much more. In terms of news, the WiiU's press event happened and we discuss everything revealed there as well as our feelings on the system now. We also dis...

Top Down Perspective - PAX Prime 2012 Edition 08.09.2012

We're all back from PAX Prime 2012 with tons of stories to tell. Each of us goes through all the games we saw and played at the show as well as the panels we attended or put on. We also talk about the people we met, the events we did around PAX and a lot more!

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