Filthy Casuals With Tommy Dassalo, Ben Vernel And Adam Knox

Seasons may be changing into a Christmasy winter or a festive summer, subject to your hemisphere, but what is evidently a global and year-round constant is the dependable presence of new leaks around the Switch 2. We've got some good ones this week, and we talk new joy-cons and screen sizes. For those of you who already knew the Switch 2 would have controls and a screen, we also talk Ben's new Raspberry Pi, Adam's thoughts on the Silent Hill 2 remake, and a whole bunch more!

The desolate, toxic wasteland of podcasting is braved once again by three courageous men with only an enormous amount of weaponry to protect them. In the Zone this week are our early thoughts on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, a potential new PlayStation handheld console and the new train carriage they've made in the meantime, future plans for the Final Fantasy and Witcher series, and a whole bunch more!

The nominations for podcast which contains some discussion about which games are nominated for Game of the Year at the Game Awards are: Filthy Casuals. And probably heaps of others, but us too! We talk about the noms for the big prize, Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, plus the recent Warcraft remasters, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remaster, The Rise of the Golden Idol, and more! We’d like to thank the podcast academy for this honour.

It’s been a big year for brothers reuniting after long absences, but the Oasis of video games is back with Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Tommy’s played it, Adam’s played a little Rise of the Golden Idol, Ben’s played a little Metal Slug Tactics, and we’ve all played a little “What’s In The News This Week?” The answer? Things like the launch of the PS5 Pro, Shigeru Miyamoto walking around a theme park by himself, Persona 5’s music being nominated for a Grammy, Ubisoft facing a potential lawsuit over The Crew’s shutdown, and even more. Have a listen, in my honest opinion!Patreon - every new episode ad-free and a world of bonus podcastsBandcamp Premium EpisodesYouTube - including live streams and Let's PlaysTwitch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tear open your podcast booster pack, because I have a good feeling you’ve got a rare Tommy, a shiny Ben and a hollow Adam inside for this week’s expansion pack to the Filthy Casuals Trading Card Game. Perhaps you could trade them for a Monster Hunter Wilds Beta Chat card, a Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket Review card, or a few different news cards like Playdate Season 2 and Halo 2 E3 Demo Release. Or you could just listen to this episode of Filthy Casuals and collect the whole set and more!Patreon - every new episode ad-free and a world of bonus podcastsBandcamp Premium EpisodesYouTube - including live streams and Let's PlaysTwitch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Increasingly more reliable than the changing of the seasons, migratory birds and hibernating mammals now use the release of a new Call of Duty game to track the Earth's orbit around the sun, and we're done with another loop this week with the release of Black Ops 6. We have a talk about that, detective story No Time to Die, city builder Citadelum, a brief chat about Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero as well as looking at a whole bunch of news. Congratulations on being one Call of Duty older everyone, here's to 50 more (six years worth).

Spooky season is here and for this Halloween Tommy, Ben and Adam are dressing up as three video game designers and creating the world's scariest game. Will it be creepy and kooky? You bet. Mysterious and spooky? Absolutely. Altogether ooky? Sure.

Fantasy Is Dead but Podcasting is very much alive this week as the boys hack into the news servers and chat about the Pokemon leaks, Nintendo’s brand spanking new device, Red Dead Redemption on PC and more. PLUS Metaphor ReFantazio is out so we’re unlocking the Reviewer Archetype and giving our first impressions of the first few hours of this massive (J?) RPG.

The test drive. The supermarket little free bite sized cube on a toothpick. The absorbing of blue liquid alongside a competing brand. Is there anything more tempting to the average shopper than the humble demonstration? This week, we put to the test whether Metphor: ReFantazio's pre-release demo has what it takes to wow the consumption-loving public, and while we're down at the shopping mall anyway we take a quick look at Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster. Plus news like the development of an Alien: Isolation sequel, Halo's latest course correct, David Hayter's potential Metal Gear return, and more!Patreon - every new episode ad-free and a world of bonus podcastsBandcamp Premium EpisodesYouTube - including live streams and Let's PlaysTwitch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whip out your magic rods and reate yourself a pair of headphones and a phone, as it's time to listen to the latest episode of Filthy Casuals. This week we've played The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, and wouldn't you know it Ben has dived into Helldivers 2. Plus there's news like a potential new Tony Hawk game, and a whole bunch more! Now if you'll please just use that magic rod to create a funny little ending to this podcast description, we'll be all set!Patreon - every new episode ad-free and a world of bonus podcastsBandcamp Premium EpisodesYouTube - including live streams and Let's PlaysTwitch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's 50 podcasts in one this week! So long as you consider any minor conversation topic change to be the beginning of an entirely new podcast. And we hope you do, because in that case we have the world's greatest compilation of podcasts right here! Including a podcast about new indie retro omnibus UFO 50, a podcast about boss based action game Black Myth: Wukong, a podcast about the recent PlayStation State of Play, and podcasts about a lot of the reveals within that show including a podcast about Ghost of Yotei, and podcasts about much more!

Whip out your tiny paint pots, dip your fine brushes in some water and get ready to very quickly give up on painting these tiny things because oh my god it’s so fiddly why does mine look so much worse than every one of these pictures, wait buying more of these would cost how much? In a bold new move for the world of video games, a Warhammer 40,000 game has been released and Adam and Ben have played it! This week we review the picture-book adventure game The Plucky Squire, and talk about the recent dissolution of Annapurna Interactive, progress on The Sims movie, and of course all the latest news about contemporary crypto mascot Flappy Bird.Patreon - every new episode ad-free and a world of bonus podcastsBandcamp Premium EpisodesYouTube - including live streams and Let's PlaysTwitch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we review the cheerful ghost of PlayStation past Astro Bot, and react to the expensive ghost of PlayStation future, the PS5 Pro. Are Sony being scrooges with that price? Is Astro Bot so fun that it'll have you flinging open a window and yelling "you there, boy, what day is it?" I'll be honest I only remember so much about A Christmas Carol so that's not necessarily a logical reaction to enjoying a game, but I had no other real element of the story in my head to draw from. Why even start calling Astro Bot and the PS5 Pro reveal "ghosts of PlayStation whatever" in the first place, you ask? I will not be taking questions at this time. Plus Tommy has been back to Nintendo for a preview of Mario Party Jamboree, we talk Peglin, and more besides all of that.

Whether it be Zelda or Leia, princess fans are sure to be satisfied this week as we talk about Tommy's hands on preview time with The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Ben reviews his time with Star Wars Outlaws. If you're a fan of both princesses and surprising video game shutdown news then firstly: I guess it's good to know yourself that well but you have some incredibly niche interests, and secondly: yes we talk about Concord. We also chat PS5 Pro, why Adam doesn't like Argos, and a whole bunch more.

Arrange a time to listen to this episode of Filthy Casuals because quite frankly it's slay. Now that I've repelled people with my cringe use of slang (and a second time by using the word cringe), let me reel you back in by telling you that this episode we've played games like Arranger and Slay the Princess, talk news like Nintendo's latest partner/indie Direct, even more PS5 price increases, plus a ton besides. It's, quite frankly, on fleek.Play Super Dassalo Land and then watch Tommy's stand-up special over at https://www.tommydassalo.com/

Games? In Europe? Crazier things have happened! In fact, many crazier things, including us recording a podcast about the games being shown at Gamescom specifically. Video games were around for a long time in Europe prior to the advent of the internet, so my reasoning is that the existence of podcasts, one of the leading formats in this new era of digital media, is in fact crazier than the existence of games in Europe. I hope you can understand how I am seeing things. We talk crazy games like Civilization VII, Monster Hunter Wilds, Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country, as well as many more. Please enjoy this crazy event.Play Super Dassalo Land and then watch Tommy's stand-up special over at https://www.tommydassalo.com/

The phone lines are open and we're taking your calls for the first time since 2017.Play Super Dassalo Land and then watch Tommy's stand-up special over at https://www.tommydassalo.com/

Thank goodness we're here this week, equipment functioning despite bodies still not so much. But we must talk about Thank Goodness You're Here, Minishoot Adventures, losses at Bungie, Game Informer and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and a whole bunch more. Play Super Dassalo Land and then watch Tommy's stand-up special over at https://www.tommydassalo.com/

In this special Premium Episode, The Filthy Boys take on one of the most important, terrifying and complicated facets of the human experience: the construction of a top 10 list. How Letterman did it night in and night out we will never know. We respond to a listener question and lay out our 10 MUST-PLAY games in this MIGHT-LISTEN episode.The reason we're releasing it on the regular feed in place of a normal episode? Basically Ben's recording fucked up, and Tommy's sick, and Adam is operating on Greenwich Mean Time. We've dropped this Premium Ep to tide you all over until next week, hope you don't mind! Send your good vibes to Tommy. Peace and love, peace and love.All of our stuff is at filthycasuals.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're over halfway through 2024, so it's time to take stock of where we've been, where it looks like we're going, and where we are right now. Where we are right now? Recording a podcast. That's one third of the topics covered. The others will include looking back at great games like Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Dragon's Dogma 2, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Balatro and more besides, as well as looking forward to games like Metaphor: ReFantazio, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and more besides those too. It's been a crazy year, so thank goodness there have been some fun games to talk about. Have a listen to us do that, why don't you?Patreon - every new episode ad-free and a world of bonus podcastsBandcamp Premium EpisodesYouTube - including live streams and Let's PlaysTwitch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.