Top Down Perspective

This week is all about playing through the backlog. Sean talks about his time with Lost in Shadow, Kirby's Return to Dreamland and You Don't Know Jack. Jon is playing some SNES games as well as more Mario Kart 7 and Nathan is going through and enjoying Driver: San Francisco.

As for news, the trailer for the third season of the Tester is out (and it's GREAT) and Microsoft announces information on this year's Block Party.

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SPOILER WARNING! We spoil a ton of games for people during this. We don't even warn people at some points. So, if we start talking about a game that you don't want to be spoiled in anyway, it's safer to just assume we spoiled it at some point. Otherwise, take your chances. Games we spoil for sure: Ghost Trick, Catherine and Portal 2 (those are off the top of my head).

In this show each of us discuss our personal top ten lists of games that came out in 2011. We also decide on an official TDP Game of the Year, discuss some honorable mentions, share our favorite 2010 games that we played this year and mention some games we want to play more of that may have impacted out top tens if we had more time with them.

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It's back log time and Sean is playing Dance Central 2, The Gunstringer, some crappy Kinect Fun Labs games, getting angry at Fruit Ninja Kinect and the recent 3DSWare hit: Pushmo. Jon is also playing some Pushmo as well as getting progressively angrier at Mario Kart 7 and Nathan deletes Tiny Tower during the recording!

As for news, there are some Q1 release dates from Nintendo announced, DeadMau5 pretends to lose a Vita and the GBA Ambassador games are launched!

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This week Sean has finished up Rayman Origins. tested out Mirror's Edge iOS and continued, along with Jon, to play Mario Kart 7. Nathan tries some Kinect games and we discuss the 360 and 3DS's latest updates. As for news, we talk about some of the reveals on the Spike TV Video Game Awards, Bastion getting some interesting DLC and Club Nintendo offering some news prizes.

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The year is slowly wrapping up and that means games aren't really coming out anymore. However, we're talking about this week's one big release: Mario Kart 7. Sean also finishes Assassin's Creed Revelations and Saints Row the Third, Jon plays some Cave Story 3D and Nathan has toe shoes! As for news, we discuss Xenoblade coming stateside, Notch stepping down as lead of Minecraft and Obsidian's plans to release a South Park RPG.

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The games keep rolling in as Nathan and Sean discuss Saints Row the Third and Jon is finishing up Super Mario 3D Land. We also discuss Fruit Ninja Kinect and a bit of Kinect Adventures as well as the first-party Vita launch line-up in Europe and the next 360 dashboard update.

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There are a ton of games out! We're playing a lot of them. This week we're discussing Super Mario 3D Land, Rayman: Origins, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Bit. Trip Saga and much much more. As for news we discuss the rumor of Metal Gear Solid 5, Call of Duty Elite is still down and Sony has released information on their UMD Passport.

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Uncharted 3 is here and Nathan and Sean are free to talk all about it. Along with that we're discussing the recently released GTA5 trailer as well as some of the nominees for the Spike TV Video Game Awards and other information you should expect to hear coming out of it.

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We're here for a short Halloween episode. Sean finally got Arkham City in the mail so he plays through that as well as trying out the previous Batman game, Arkham Asylum. He's also playing more Last Specter and the hot title: Bakugan Battle Brawlers. Jon is just continuing on with Arkham City, same with Nathan as well as 30 Second Life on iOS. Grand Theft Auto 5 is discussed and your questions are read on the air.

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