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? TDP is listener funded. Like what you hear? Want to support the show and get ad-free episodes? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/topdownperspective

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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It's Silksong day so we're chatting about the first couple hours of that. Sean also finishes up The Rogue Prince of Persia and plays some Mario Paint. Nathan is here to talk Costume Quest 2, Dungeons of Hinterberg, and Wheel World.

During news we discuss Rayman possibly coming back, the PS5 getting a storage decrease, and GTA6 is the first AAAAA game!

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is out and Sean's spent some time with that. He also finished Hollow Knight and tried out Kill the Brickman. Paul continues to play random Metroid games. Claire is away at PAX West.

During news we discuss several indie titles getting out of the way of Silksong, Atari buying some odd Ubisoft IP, and Skate gets an early access launch date.

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