Top Down Perspective

There's a new Zelda out, Echoes of Wisdom, and Sean has been playing it. He also tries out Metaphor: ReFantazio and Prince of Perisa: The Lost Crown: Mask of Darkness. Jon is playing UFO 50, Dead Rising Deluxe Edition and the TMNT: Shredder's Revenge DLC. Paul calls in from his phone and it's a goofy time.

We start news off with a rundown of the PlayStation State of Play, Ubisoft pulls out of Tokyo Game Show, and Assassin's Creed Shadows gets delayed to 2025.

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Episode 729

Paul wraps up Space Marine 2 and dives into the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster. Sean gets his platinum in Astro Bot, starts up Star War Outlaws, and can finally talk about his Dragon Age The Veilguard preview.

We begin news with the possible Switch 2 images, we also discuss the 30th anniversary collection from PlayStation, and Nintendo is suing Palworld.

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Sean has played the PlayStation 5 Pro! He's also checking out Tactical Breach Wizard, Jon is playing more Ys, and Paul continues with Space Marine 2. They're all loving Astro Bot.

In other news, Xbox has another massive layoff, Annapurna Interactive might be no more, and Flappy Bird is coming back from the dead.

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Sean is back from Europe with many tales of his time at this year's Gamescom in Germany. He played games like The First Berserker: Khazan and Life is Strange: Double Exposure, while also checking out Pepper Grinder and Astro Bot outside of the show. Paul continues with Black Myth: Wukong and World of Warcraft: The War Within.

News is packed this week as we dive into the recent Nintendo Direct, layoffs hit Rocksteady, and Concord is being shutdown after just 11 days.

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Sean is in Europe covering Gamescom this week, which leaves Paul and Jon to discuss a whole bunch of old games! Jon has been playing through the Ys games, especially Ys: The Oath in Felghana while Paul has been relearning how to play games on a leverless arcade pad (a hitbox controller). He's also been checking out the new DBZ moba Dragon Ball Project Multi and a small indie game called Blacksmith Who Kong or something.

In news, we rundown everything shown at Gamescom Opening Night Live, Ubisoft lays off the Division Heartland studio, China has a lot of concurrent players, FFXVI comes out on PC soon and Wilmot's Warehouse gets a sequel.

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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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