Sean is neck deep into Moonlighter 2's early access, he also plays Call of Duty Black Ops 7 and Goodnight Universe. Claire is going through Everhood.

The Game Award nominees are out so we run through the categories and predict who we think will win each. We also discuss Xbox's Partner Preview and GameStop's insane promotion.

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Paul's played it, Sean is almost done his second run, time to discuss Dispatch. We go way into spoilers and compare all the decisions we made. Do not listen to this if you don't want the story spoiled for you.

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Claire returns to talk Hal-Con. She's been playing Ball x Pit, Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac, and Once Upon a Katamari. Sean plays through ElecHead and Before Your Eyes. Paul is enjoying Dispatch.

We start news off with discussing Valve's 3 hardware announcements. We also talk about Sony's State of Play Japan and the Horizon MMO.

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We've got a lot to talk about which includes Arc Raiders, Dispatch, Pokemon Legends Z-A, and Lego Voyagers.

As for news: GTA6 got delayed again and Rockstar might be union busting, Halo Campaign Evolved is announced, and there's going to be an Overcooked show?

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This week Paul is trying out Keeper and Power Wash Simulator 2. Sean jumps into The Outer Worlds 2 and Pokemon Legends Z-A.

As for news, we discuss a wild report regarding Xbox needing a 30% profit margin, they've also raised the price of their dev kits, and Krafton is now an AI-first company.

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We're in Vegas for episode 777...right?

Sean has been using the ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X for the last week. Claire tries out Absolum, Unfair Flips, and Gauntlet Dark Legacy. Paul is playing Ball x Pit.

News is short but we discuss Quantic Dream making a multiplayer game, Summer Game Fest getting a date, and Itagaki passes away.

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Paul continues to work through Silent Hill f while Sean plays some Battlefield 6 and gets real into Ghost of Yotei.

In news we discuss Heart Machine having layoffs, the second Minecraft movie is announced, and a very intriguing Assassin's Creed game was cancelled.

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We are drowning in games now. Paul is playing Hotel Barcelona, Silent Hill f, and Megabonk. Sean returns and talks about Ghost of Yotei, Baby Steps, and Hades 2.

We catch up on all the news including Xbox raising console and Game Pass prices, the Ally gets a North American price, EA is going private, and Kojima wants to scan a ghost.

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Claire and Paul discuss the crazy amount of TV shows out right now and how they have issues always sitting down watching things before going into some physical collecting woes for movies and games (including Limited Run Games taking FOREVER to send stuff). Claire plays through Transistor and really enjoys it, getting ready for Hades II soon. Paul finishes Cronos and sees credits for the first time in Silksong.

Nintendo had a direct! We talk at length about that, including the finer points of... Amiibos?

Claire is back and we chat for hours about all the games, including Donkey Kong Bananza, Pokemon Friends, "Mosaic" games, Zexion, Robocop 3, Shinobi and Bubsy 4D. Oh, she also has been playing Hollow Knight: Silksong so Paul jumps in and we discuss that game pretty thoroughly for no spoilers. Big Nate, as he prefers to be called, revisits Day of the Tentacle, plays through Bluey: The Video Game and jumps into the hot 360 title Too Human. Paul also has been playing the new Bloober Team Dead Space-like horror game Cronos: The New Dawn and loves it as well.

In news, Ninteno is litigious and runs out of 2DS parts. Also, Acclaim is apparently coming back as a publisher for Indies.

All this and more in this edition of the Top Down Perspective!

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