Top Down Perspective

This week Jon is gone but Nathan and Sean played a ton of Dead Rising 2. Nathan also did some more Halo: Reach but who cares cause Sean played Quantum Theory! He also spent a very little amount of time with Claptrap's New Robot Revolution. On the news side: Microsoft announces a great October deal. Also, the Just Cause movie gets a screen writer, the 3DS gets a release date and price for Japan and...

Jon is back and talking about Guilty Party and Dead Rising: Case Zero. Sean has been addicted to Professor Layton. Nathan on the other hand spent some time with Minecraft and Civilization V. The Tester season 2 has an air date and cast, Netflix comes to Canada and PS3's are updated to block out some third party controllers. Along with this, Halo Reach doesn't land first in the top ten played games...

This week Jon is sick and Sean messes up the release date of Comic Jumper repeatedly! Nathan talks Dead Rising: Case Zero, Shibuya and Halo: Reach. Sean brings up Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Puzzle Agent, Guilty Party and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. As for news, the Tokyo Game Show is happening and a smorgasbord of announcements come out. The next Devil May Cry game is announced...

We're back from the Penny Arcade Expo and we're here with and extra long edition of TDP. We discuss games like Duke Nukem Forever, Sonic 4, Dance Central, Hydrophobia, Bastion, Killzone 3, Portal 2 and much, much, MUCH more.

This week Nathan starts us off with some talk on older PC games and moves into the XBLA version of Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Sean picks up from there and rolls into some Shank and Monopoly. Jon finishes off with more Scott Pilgrim. On the news side, Microsoft strictly watching Halo: Reach pirates and is sending out beta testing kits for its new Kinect peripheral. Sony slows down sales on the new...

Nathan starts us off with some Fallout 3 and moves into Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. Sean also shares his time with K&L2 along with X-Men Origins Wolverine, Bioshock 2 and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Jon wraps us up with Adventure Island, more of his usual old games and one very obscure Mario game at the end. Gamescon is going on this week in Germany and we get news such as Mortal Kombat ge...

Once again we have Dustin here to fill in a fourth chair. He talks about his time with Star Craft 2. Nathan gets into detail about Wet, Peggle, Fallout 3 and a bit much on Spy Fiction. Jon talks Ducktales and Scott Pilgrim vs the World: The Game. And Sean wraps up with more Singularity and Split/Second. Duke Nukem Forever might not be dead as well as the outcome of the Penny Arcade game series as...

Due to technical difficulties, we ended up losing the last ten minutes of the podcast. This week we bring on a special guest and get in some brief talk on Starcraft 2. Nathan and Sean talk a bit more about The Signal as well as get into depth on Singularity. Jon finishes us up with some Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Pokemon Black and White will have exclusively new pokemon until you beat the ga...

Nathan kicks us off with some of his Limbo wrap up, The Club and the Kane & Lynch 2 demo. He and Sean also discuss their opinions on Clash of the Titans and Alan Wake's first piece of DLC: The Signal. Sean also brings up some of the Darkness and more on Wanted: Weapons of Fate. Jon wraps us up with Klonoa 2 and Dragon Quest 9. When it comes to news we talk about punishing people in Halo: Reach, So...

We talk about a ton of movies this week but that doesn't stop Sean from bringing up Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Red Dead Redemption and, along with Nathan, Limbo. Jon talks about Chrono Trigger DS, Apollo Justice and how he can't seem to start Dragon Quest IX. Nathan finishes what we've been playing with Death Spank. The San Diego Comic Con is on so we run down some of its more video game centered an...

Nathan is back and taking about the games he bought during the Steam sale. He also shares his opinion on Crackdown 2 and talks a bit about Half Life 2. Sean lists off the games he's recently bought and goes into detail about Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Sega Superstars Tennis, Infamous, Hail to the Chimp and Bionic Commando. In terms of news, 1 vs. 100 on the 360 is not coming back for a third season...

This week Sean gets a little more deep into his feelings on Crackdown 2. He also talks about his time with Peggle and the always exciting Feeding Frenzy 2. Jon then brings up his opinion on Death Smiles and shares which games he purchased during Xbox Live's arcade sale. More development unfolds on the ex-Infinity Ward team vs. Activision. We also talk about the recently announced Dragon Age 2 and...

This week Sean brings up his time with The Legendary Starfy and Crackdown 2. On the other side, Jon talks Bulletwitch and whatever other old games he normally plays. On the news front sees a discussion on Sony’s new PlayStation Plus program. We also discuss what Shigeru Miyamoto’s new game and character might be. 343 Studios is assigned to the next Halo game following Reach and Heavy Rain DLC is p...

E3 is this week so we skip right to the news. We run over what was revealed at the Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony press conferences, along with brief mentions on EA and Ubisoft's. Microsoft shows off a ton of Kinect games and reveals its new model for the 360. Nintendo shows off several new games from old IPs and unveils the 3DS. Sony shows off more of how Move is coming along as well as a ton of 3D...

This week we start off with Jon's time with more of Conker on the GameBoy as well as several of the original Mega Mans. Nathan and Sean bring up their time with Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Nathan discusses some Red Dead Redemption. Sean finishes up with some Lego Rockband and Record of Argarest Wars. Rock Band 3 is announced and its new controllers are detailed and priced. Microsoft reveals Project N...

This week Jon brings up one of the original Conkers games for the GameBoy and he and Nathan discuss more of their time with Super Mario Galaxy 2. Sean talks a bit more on Blur and brings forth a discussion on Modnation Racers. We finish off the games with Nathan talking about Red Dead Redemption. On the news side, inFamous 2 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock are announced. More news of Star Wars:...

The gang kicks off this week with a discussion on Mario Galaxy 2 and moves into Bit. Trip Runner. We then move into Blur and Nathan brings up his time with Red Dead Redemption so far. On the news side we get into Rock Band 3's rumored keyboard controller. Microsoft plans to announce Project Natal's real name at E3, a Mass Effect movie comes to light and Insomniac chooses to go multiplatform with t...

Sean and Nathan bring up their opinions of Alan Wake and the idea of a spoilercast is mentioned. Sean continues to talk about Red Dead Redemption and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. Jon then discusses his time with Super Mario Galaxy 2. J Allard leaves Microsoft and Rockstar announces its opinion on parents buying M rated - and their own personal - games. Blizzard decides to censor the Kore...

This week Sean brings up his opinion of Skate 3 and the gang discusses the series as a whole. Nathan and Sean share their feelings about Lost Planet 2 while Jon continues to play the oldest games ever. On the news side, South Korea is beginning to implement 3D enabled Xbox 360's along with LG's new line of 3D televisions. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is announced and we share the information we kn...

Jon is back and discussing the list of old GameBoy games he's playing and Picross 3D. Also, he talks about his time on The Speed Gamer's Mother marathon and our opinions on Super Street Fighter 4. Nathan and Sean discuss more about the Halo: Reach beta as well as the last three episodes of the Blue Toad Murder Files. Star Craft 2 has a release date. God of War: Ghost of Sparta is announced so we d...

It's the thirteen episode and we're talking about dentistry! Along with that, Sean brings up some more of his time with Deadly Premonition and Final Fantasy XIII. Nathan talks about some of his backtracking in Dead Rising and  they both go over the soon-to-be-released Halo:Reach beta. On the news side we run down Bungie's new 10 year contract with Activision and the remake for Tales of Monkey Isla...

This week Nathan and Sean run over their final thoughts on Splinter Cell Conviction. Along with that Sean plays a bit more Deadly Premonition and Nathan finishes Batman Arkham Asylum again. On the news side sees an extensive discussion about Left 4 Dead 2's new piece of downloadable content The Passing. We talk about it's launch, some story related elements and whether or not we are planning to go...

Jon returns and Dustin guest stars again for some in-depth discussion on Splinter Cell Conviction. Professor Layton is discussed along with Nathan's moments with the original Xbox. And Jon talks about Henry Hatsworth. The Tester isn't talked about but the original Xbox's shut down is discussed. We also go over March's sales figures while Sean groans and the fifth generation of Pokemon - Pokemon Bl...

This week Nathan and Sean run through their feelings of Just Cause 2's end game. From there Nathan talks far too much about some of the iPhone games he's been playing and Sean talks about his time with College Hoops 2K6. We then move into our opinions of the Tester's season finale and how we feel about who won and how it went down. On the news side sees a discussion about in-game advertising in Me...

We kick things off with sharing our feelings of Jon's disinterest in Uncharted 2 and his time with Microsoft's Game Room. Nathan discusses his incredibly long play with with Just Cause 2 while Sean admits he may have been wrong about the game. Pokemon is once again brought up along with Sean, Nathan and (special guest) Dustin's opinions of Blue Toad Murder Files. The seventh episode of the Tester...