This week Sean and Jon continue along with Fire Emblem. Jon also talks about Metal Gear Rising and Sean finishes up Assassin's Creed 3 and looks at Pudding Monsters. Nathan starts Skyward Sword and also plays through current iOS hit Year Walk.

As for the news, the Ouya gets some interesting developers on board, more Walking Dead coming from Telltale before season two and Microsoft is have a cool sale right now.

This week we rush through a bit (yet still end with an hour and a half long episode). Sean and Jon are continuing with Fire Emblem Awakening quite a bit. Sean also finished Ni No Kuni and The Room along with Nathan.

News is the big deal this week! Another Nintendo Direct happens showing off the "Year of Luigi", Hotline Miami is coming to the Vita, The Room is getting a sequel and that's about it....Just kidding! The scheduled Sony event shows off the all-new PlayStation 4!

This Valentine's episode finds Jon playing some more Sonic '06 and Fire Emblem: Awakening. Sean continues with Ni No Kuni and also tried out iOS games: Borderlands Legends and The Room. Nathan plays some WarioWare and the original Metroid.

News is scarce. We discuss more happenings around the Rayman Legends delay, another studio closes and some controversy is surrounding the new Aliens game.

Jon's here talking about Parasite Eve as well as some more Fire Emblem: Awakening with Sean. Sean also continues his trek through Ni No Kuni and Nathan finishes up Phantom Hourglass.

News on the Ouya and Durango surface as well as some details about the next Assassin's Creed and Rayman Legends being delayed.

This week Sean continues his way through the never ending Ni No Kuni, he's also playing Fire Emblem: Awakening along with Jon. Jon also continues to enjoy Sonic '06. Nathan discusses his time with the Global Game Jam and all the games he got to see be made.

News is scarce but we talk about a possible PS4 announcement, Junction Point closing and the release date reveal of GTA5.

This week Sean is playing through a couple visual novels, a couple iOS games and the big release this week: Ni No Kuni. Nathan plays some Skyrim. KRUNCH and The Cave and Jon is playing Sonic '06 for some reason. And liking it.

A bunch of news dropped this week. The final chapter of the THQ bankruptcy is revealed and Nintendo drops word on Windwaker HD, Fire Emblem X Shin Megami Tensei, Miiverse on phones and a whole lot more.

We're all back for a regular episode and have been playing a lot. Nathan plays new iOS hit Hundreds. Jon is checking out DmC as well as Wake Up Club with Sean. Sean also finishes up Gravity Rush and starts playing Analogue: A Hate Story.

There's a lot of news including information on the Steam box from CES, more updates on THQ, Dead Island Riptide's collector's edition, new Pokemon games announced and quite a bit more!

I'm pretty sure we didn't actually do much spoiler talking this time. Just tread lightly.

It's that time of year again! We all sit down and run through our own personal top ten games of 2012! We also add a few other categories to the episode this time including Most Disappointing and our future Predictions. And as a bonus, we invited Pixel Response's Paul Fleck to come and join us for the fun times. So enjoy this extra long and extra special edition of the Top Down Perspective!

Jon is away at MAGfest which leaves Nathan and Sean to host our last episode before the GOTY special. Nathan has been playing Mark of the Ninja and Shank 2 along with more Spaceteam (same with Sean). Sean has also been playing Dance Central 3 and Forza Horizon.

News is scarce but we discuss the first footage of Activision's The Walking Dead game as well as Sony filing for a patent that may fight against used games.

For our final episode of the year we are unfortunately one man short. But while Jon is away Nathan and Sean discuss Cart Life, Sin Episodes, Binary Domain, Rayman Jungle Run and some more Hotline Miami.

News is incredibly small but includes more info on the War Z issues, Xbox 360 achievements showing up on an iOS game and a new Final Fantasy 13 game has been announced.