Top Down Perspective

This week on the SLEEPY cast Jon is dead tired from traveling so much, Nathan is tired from being up till 5 writing an essay and Sean is sick. Jon arrives home from Sakuracon and tells us about his time there. Nathan and Sean go back to some older games. Since you're dying to know, Sean's obtained 111 Pokemon in Pokemon Black. As for news, the PlayStation Network has been down for a few days due t...

This week Jon is trying out a new Xbox Live Indie Game, playing some more Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as well as some Rayman 3D. Nathan is addicted to Plants vs. Zombies along with more obscure IOS games. Lastly, Sean has been playing World of Goo for the iPhone, Bit. Trip Beat (on PC) and Back to the Future Episode One. As for news: Valve has something crazy going on with the release of Portal 2. Informa...

This week Nathan is talking about Dirt 2, Plants Vs. Zombies and Tiny Wings. Sean is sharing his time with Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime, Raskulls, Mass Effect 2's The Arrival DLC and as always: Pokemon Black. Jon is not with us. As for news; World of Goo is coming to the iPhone and Pop Cap can't get their new game - Unpleasant Horse - onto the App Store. If you're craving as much Mass Effect as w...

This week Sean and Jon are Nathanless but we both have brand new, shiny 3DS's to talk about. Jon is playing Super Street Fighter 4 3D and Bust a Move 3D while Sean is still playing Pokemon Black. Also, Sean brings up his time with IOS game Tiny Wings and talks briefly about Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime. Jon starts playing more old GameBoy games such as Duke Nukem and Mega Man Extreme. As for new...

This week Jon returns to tell us all about his time at the Penny Arcade Expo East Edition. He runs through the 3DS games he checked out and the stuff he did down in Boston. Sean and Nathan on the other hand stayed put and played some Plants Vs Zombies, Hobo with a Shotgun and some other old releases. On the news side, Stacking and Mass Effect 2 are getting their first and last respectively pieces...

This week we're putting out a short (Diet) episode do to all of our schedules conflicting at the moment. As for the games, Nathan got into Tron: Evolution, some more Burnout Paradise, finally slowed down on DS games and finished with some Def Jam Rapstar. Sean on the other hand played a ton more Pokemon Black and started his way through Dead Space 2. Jon is in Boston for PAX East and will return t...

This week Jon runs through some Bulletstorm, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 and Hard Corps: Uprising. Nathan goes through some more Ace Attorney and tried out indie game: Impossible Game. Sean wraps up our games with the new Pokemon Black. As for news, we run through some of the stories to come out of this year's GDC. A new Super Mario is announced for the 3DS along with some more news from Nintendo. We Dare...

This week Nathan and Sean run through some Killzone 3. Along with Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Dragon Age: Origins and they get ready for Dragon Age 2. Sean also mentions some Bulletstorm at the very end. As for news, Gears of War 3 gets a release date and beta announcement as well as Command & Conquer getting brought forward by a new developer. Nintendo announces the 3DS's North American launch line...

In honor of our 50th episode we get the WORST technical difficulties we've encountered so far. BUT! Nathan demands this broken as hell show be published so I apologize in advance for Sean broken as ASS audio (luckily only for about a third of it). On the bright side Sean talks about finishing Mass Effect and the disappointment that is Pinnacle Station. He and Jon also played Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. J...

It's Valentine's Day, so we're talking about the video games we played over the last week. And you're listening. Jon continued with Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 and (along with Nathan) tried out the new You Don't Know Jack. Nathan also finished up with his Mirror's Edge adventure, played through Stacking, went back to Dragon Age: Origins and started Ghost Trick. Sean continued his Mass Effect 1 run b...

Unfortunately, due to some odd technical issues, the last third of the podcast had to be cut (this included the news and emails portion of the show). Sorry for the short episode this week and the abrupt cut off ending, we will address any email questions we received on next week's show. In terms of games, Jon is playing Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 while Nathan plays through Wolfenstien, wraps up Dea...

This week Nathan discusses his issues with Dead Space 2 and more on Miner Dig Deep, Jon finishes up Dead to Rights Retribution and Sean continues with Rock Band 3 and starts his Mass Effect 1 playthrough. On the news end we're looking at a ton of information on the recently announce PlayStation NGP and some cloud saving support for the PS3.

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!