Top Down Perspective 28 - 03 - 11

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 news: Duke Nukem gets ANOTHER delay, Metacritic starts ranking Game Developers and Nintendo details some of its ideas for 3DS firmware updates.

Top Down Perspective - Pax East 2011 Edition

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 of DLC. EA Sports decides to join Ubisoft is no longer putting out manuals in their game boxes. And Metacritic starts ranking IOS games.

TDP Diet! 14 - 03 - 11

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 to us next weekend.
As for news, the developers behind Runescape are working on a Transformers MMO. Wii Dare Watch 2011 continues and Xbox starts up Xbox Live Labs.

Top Down Perspective 07 - 03 - 11

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 gets a rating for it's European release, Sony tries to bring the PS3 hackers to court and a Devil May Cry movie is in the works.

Top Down Perspective 28 - 02 - 11

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 up and Ubisoft reveals We Dare.
As for our community game night, as always you can add Nathan: Kraznor and/or Sean: Angel Gamerr (only Xbox 360 for now) to your friends list if you'd like to participate in some community multiplayer. Currently we are going to be playing Burnout Paradise and you can expect to see us driving around over the next two weeks. Check in on our Twitter accounts (@Kraznor and @Galaxytonight) for further information.

Top Down Perspective 21 - 02 - 11

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. Jon also starts up Bionic Commando Rearmed (for whatever dumb reason) along with some GameBoy game. Nathan finishes (and falls in love with) Ghost Trick, goes back to the SPLENDOR that is Burnout Paradise along with some The Godfather 2.
On the news front we have some possible additional DLC for Mass Effect 2. Telltale announces a The Walking Dead and Fables game along with a sequel to Puzzle Agent. DoubleFine announces that they're making a Sesame Street game and we discuss long and hard about the merit of the Dead Island trailer.
Also, we decide to start doing some form of community game sessions. If you'd like to add either Nathan: Kraznor or Sean: Angel Gamerr (just these two for now and only 360 for now) to your friends lists we will attempt some form of community multiplayer sessions from here on out. Over the next week or so, we'll most likely be looking at Burnout Paradise to start things off.

Top Down Perspective 14 - 02 - 11

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 by muscling through all the sidequests and venturing into the game's DLC; to top it off, he plays out the iOS game Mass Effect Galaxy.
On the news end: Duke Nukem Forever gets a very limited edition, Activision cans all it's "Hero" franchises, the Sony Xperia Play phone is detailed and Fox News LOVES themselves some Bulletstorm!

Top Down Perspective 07 - 02 - 11

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 Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect 2 and relives some Mirror's Edge. As for Sean, he wraps up Professor Layton and the Unwound Future and dives head first into the first Mass Effect.

Top Down Perspective 31 - 01 - 11

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.

Top Down Perspective 24 - 01 - 11

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.

Top Down Perspective 17 - 01 - 11

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.

Top Down Perspective - GOTY Edition

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.

Top Down Perspective 03 - 01 - 11

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!

Top Down Perspective 20 - 12 - 10

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.

Top Down Perspective 05 - 12 - 12

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 and UK get a pretty sweet Microsoft deal.

Top Down Perspective 30 - 11 - 10

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 Caverns marking Game Room’s return to awesomeness. No seriously, there are actually quality Game Room games on the way. As to why, no one truly knows but we speculate a bit. Also, Sean has officially fallen head over heels in love with ilomilo, an adorable little indie game that is worth jumping through some weird hoops to purchase. Oh, and Paul played Black Ops, so apparently the servers are still up for that one.
Then we tackle some news, starting off with some bizarre casting decisions on the upcoming Uncharted film. In short, we ain’t happy. We also examine some Mass Effect 2 stats, catch up with Axl Rose and all the wonderful things he’s been doing, and discuss some happenings regarding Sonic 4, the upcoming Elder Scrolls V, and Nintendo’s CES plans. All that and some random discussions along the way on this week’s Top Down Perspective.

Top Down Perspective 23 - 11 - 10

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 Diesel loves him some explosions and Jon loves him some obscure NES games. The Tester continues to fill up our PS3 hard-drives as episode 3 hit this past week.
While Sean wanders off in search of medical assistance, Jon and Nathan go over what news there was this past week, including some strange requests from the Canadian military, Portal 2’s completely unsurprising delay, Bizarre Creations’ current woes and the upcoming Spike VGA nominees. All this and more (well, not much more) on this week’s episode of the Top Down Perspective!

Top Down Perspective 15 - 11 - 10

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 and I), tackle some news, including Viacom’s plans to sell off Harmonix, the top-selling consoles in the U.S. (at least according to Nintendo’s market research guys) and the M-rated Fight Night Champion. All this and more on this special, extra late episode of the Top Down Perspective!

Top Down Perspective 07 - 11 - 10

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!

Top Down Perspective 25 - 10 - 10

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.