Top Down Perspective

This week we discuss more Dead Rising 2 frustration, Comic Jumper, Enslaved, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and GAME BOAT!

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 Gears of War 3 gets pushed back until Fall 2011. Last, NBA Elite 11 also gets pushed back but who cares cause NBA Jam is getting an individual release now.

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 on the week of its release and girls can now play video 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. Suda 51 announces two new games he's working on. Along with this, Dead Rising: Case West, Alice: Madness Returns and Pixeljunk Lifelike get teaser trailers. Halo: Reach loads times are discussed along with some online co-op issues. Last, we talk about Team Ico's new HD collection coming to the PS3.

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 modding chip and chooses not to release the new Kingdom Hearts game on their PSP Go. Death Spank gets an incredibly early sequel and the new Xbox 360 Dashboard and Avatars are leaked.

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 getting real time updates when launched, Microsoft announcing Flight and Mass Effect 2 heading to PS3s. THQ bumps up their online play to $10 and begins development on a tablet peripheral on the Wii, Microsoft also announces a list of games coming to Windows Mobile 7.

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 discussed this week. Warren Spectre talks a new Ducktales game and Irrational Games announces Bioshock Infinite along with revealing a trailer for the game. Insane EVE Online hijinks go down, a Castle Crashers arcade cabinet will be at PAX, RAGE gets a release date and more are discussed in this week's TDP!

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 game. NHL 11 releases a TON of DLC before the game is out. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood's multiplayer demo can only be obtained by preordering it through GameStop and much more is discussed this week!

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, Sony Lifestyle and just how excited we are about The Tester season 2. Valve decides to help out other developers and Kick-Ass is now out on DVD/BD so go buy it!

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 announcements. Dead Rising: Case Zero gets a price point and we're both excited and worried. Kinect bundles and prices are finally revealed and Demon Souls online/white tendency is increased.
We want you to write in a lot this week with three separate questions for you to answer. 1) Would you like to hear us do a podcast all about Spy Fiction? 2) Do you think the next rookie (Carmine) in Gears of War 3 should live or die? 3) What do you think happened to Frank West at the end of the original Dead Rising? Send in your responses to the email address (topdownperspective@hotmail.com) or comment with your answers on the site.

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. We also run down some possible names for Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 and discuss K-Mart's decision to post user reviews of games in their electronics section.

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 the information already revealed. Blizzard decides to reveal all their player's real names - then quickly decides against that. Last we address our question posed on last week's episode.

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 put on hold in favor of move support.
This week we pose a question to the listeners: What direction do you think Shigeru Miyamoto should go in for his new game/character? Send in your answer to Topdownperspective@hotmail.com and you may have it read on the air.

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 enabled games.

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 Natal's real name and the new 360 model is leaked. We finish up with talking about DJ Hero 2.

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 Force Unleashed 2 is revealed and Level 5 chooses to begin publishing their games themselves. The FTC wants to add a 5% tax on consumer electronics and Hulu is rumored to be coming to the Xbox 360.

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 their next IP.

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 Korean version of StarCraft 2 and Capcom no longer wishes to use its western developers for sequels. To wrap things up we share our opinions on EA's ten dollar idea.

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 know and how we feel towards it. The final Halo 2 player goes offline and Project Natal schedules an interesting event for it's world premiere at E3. And last, Steam is launched on the Mac and Call of Duty: Black Ops is set to have four player co-op.