Top Down Perspective

The Borderlands movie is out and Sean is mad about it. He also played through Ghost Trick Remastered and started up 1000X Resist. Jon is enjoying Time is Honey. Paul checks out Kitsune Tails and dives back into Super Mario Land 2.
We finally have some good news this week since Tango has been revived, what's going on with Deadlock?, and Nicolas Cage is going to play Madden.
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Who knows where Paul is? (He does show up a bit into the show and has been playing Earth Defense Force 6). Jon is quite disappointed with Nintendo World Championship NES Edition. Sean plays through Thank Goodness You're Here and tries out Valorant on console and the Omni One VR treadmill.
In news we discuss Game Informer being aggressively shut down, the Borderlands movie apparently sucks, and Jedi Survivor is coming out for old consoles.
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Paul is deep into Marvel Rivals' beta this week while Sean wraps up The Great Ace Attorney.
In news we discuss Activision's skill-based matching making study, Bungie goes through another massive round of layoffs, and The Behemoth details its roadmap.
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Jon joins us near the end to chat about Chained Together. Paul's playing through Kunitsu-Gami and Flintlock. Sean dives into the Marvel Rivals beta.
News is a mixed bag of new video game unions, more layoffs, and EVO 2024!
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The Concord Beta is out this week and Paul and Sean are checking that out. Sean also tries out Magical Delicacy and Dungeons of Hinterberg. Jon continues with Dead Rising.
In news we discuss the FTC coming back for Microsoft, the Halo TV series has been cancelled, and Nintendo releasing a joy-con charger at a very odd time.
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Games this week include Space Marine and Suicide Squad, played by Paul. Metroid Prime 3 is being played by Jon. Sean plays through Case of the Golden Idol as well as Skate Story and Neva's demos.
We start news off with the recent Game Pass price increase/tier stuff, followed by PlayStation announcing it will be at TGS, and Nintendo teasing a weird horror game.
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It's free to play week around here as Sean and Paul are playing Zenless Zone Zero and The Last Descendant. Paul also finally dives into Erdtree.
As for news, we're chatting about Nintendo's use of AI in the future, the Horizon Zero Dawn shown seemingly canceled, and Capcom is officially working on the next mainline Resident Evil.
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This week Paul is nearing the end of Nine Souls while trying to get his computer ready for Elden Ring. Sean is nearing the end of Shadow of the Erdtree.
In news we chat about a new Street Fighter movie possibly happening, the Xbox Keystone patent gets revealed, and Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Amazon Fire TV devices.
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It's time to run down everything we saw during Summer Game Fest. Sean also gives us a look at what it's like to be there on the show floor and everything he got up to (including some fun swag). We also deep dive into Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.
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This week, the guys are biding their time. Paul checks out an early look at 33 Immortals, the previously known "Bloodborne Kart" and continues Nine Sols while Sean is pushing people around in Humanity and loads up Octopath Traveller II with no real intentions on ever finishing it. Maybe most importantly, he's begun Stellar Blade again and is getting good at parrying.
Not much in news this week as Summer Game Fest begins soon and we are just preparing for the onslaught with some early info on the proceedings and the possible future of The Last of Us TV show.
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The boys have wrapped up Hellblade 2 this week and are also discussing Little Kitty Big City. Paul has also been playing Nine Sols and XDefiant.
We start news off with a rundown of Sony's State of Play, then we chat about Redfall's final update, and Call of Duty coming to Game Pass.
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Sean is back from his Magical European Extravaganza™ and has played basically all the games you want to hear about... from Animal Well to Hades II with some Lorelai and the Laser Eyes and even some Senua's Saga: Hellblade II. Actually, Paul also has been playing Hellblade II now that he finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and ran through Crow Country.
Not much news, so we get Sean's thoughts on the big stuff from last week quickly for the most part. 
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We're back after a week off and it might have been the most news filled week outside of an E3! Before we spend an hour talking news, Paul updates us on his Stellar Blade thoughts and progress back in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. He also played a game his friends made (link will be below). Jon has been playing all the games, starting with Animal Well, moving to Crow Country and finally Little Kitty, Big City.
The Helldivers 2 debacle, Microsoft kills Tango Gameworks, Nintendo announces Switch successor announcement and the top sold Pokemon games are among a few of a GIANT NEWS WEEK. Come hear all about it!
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This week Paul is trying out The Rogue Prince of Persia before it's Early Access launch, he's also playing Steller Blade. Sean continues with Sand Land and starts SteamWorld Heist in anticipation of the upcoming sequel.
In news we talk about the recent Xbox livestream, more Switch 2 rumors, and TakeTwo closing down some of its studios.
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Sean finishes FF7 Rebirth this week and also discusses Sand Land, Tales of Kenzera ZAU, and Another Crab's Treasure. Jon finally gets into Helldivers 2 and Paul talks to us about porny metroidvanias for a bit.
In news we talk about Nintendo removing 20 years of content from Garry's Mod, Embracer is splitting its coming up, and El Paso Elsewhere is getting a movie.
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This week Sean discusses starting into Evil West and Henry Halibut. Paul needs FF7 Rebirth to end. Jon gets a major Sonic lesson and gives us a board game update.
In news, Shadow the Hedgehog gets a voice actor, Take Two lays off hundreds of people, and Nintendo held an Indie livestream.
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Everyone is back! Jon is talking about Double Dragon Gaiden and Pepper Grinder. Paul gives us an update on FF7 Rebirth. Sean plays through Open Roads and starts into Botany Manor.
We start news off with Apple allowing emulators on iOS, run through the Triple I livestream, and discuss what's up with Dead Space.
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Paul is back and updating us on his FF7 Rebirth. Sean has been playing Princess Peach Showtime.
During news we talk about PlayStation's new interim CEO, the Triple I Initiative, and another Prince of Persia game is coming this year.
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The Riffmaster guitar has shown up and Sean unboxes and shows it off at the top of the show. He's also playing Rise of the Ronin, Llamasoft The Jeff Minter Story, and Once Upon a Jester. Jon is working his way through Another Code Recollection.
News starts off with a report that Spyro 4 is in development, then we discuss Gear Box being sold out from under the Embracer Group, and some leaked Xbox images appear.
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Sean returns from GDC this week to tell us about all the fun events and game demos he got to play. We also discuss one of tomorrow's many releases, Dragon's Dogma 2.
News is kicked off with a discussion about the leaked PS5 Pro specs, followed by Sony halting PSVR2 production, Larian moving on from Baldur's Gate, and Kotaku getting into more turmoil.
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