Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

We're taking a trip down memory lane for the next few weeks, so far back in this case that we have no memories of this particular part of the lane. Tommy, Ben and Adam go through the early days of vi…

A squad of bulky, musclebound beefcakes with thick armour, big guns, and gruff attitudes, are hosting this podcast about video games. This week Tommy Dassalo, Ben Vernel and Adam Knox take us through…

As the simulation of our world implodes, our simulations of video game worlds are getting slightly better. This week Adam tries out a bit of ray tracing on his fancy new graphics card and perhaps run…

We really hope you enjoyed games that came out in the 90s for the original PlayStation, because remakes of those games are all you’re getting this year. This week it’s Final Fantasy VII Remake and yo…

Unnatural shuffling, haunting groans, and nightmarish, deathly husks struggling to draw breath. All these fun sounds and more picked up by our too-close-to-the-mouth microphones as we record this wee…

After a 13 year wait, a new Half-Life game exists. No joke here, I’m genuinely excited about it. Could it mean more Half-Life games are not far down the track? Could it mean a return to the glory day…

Two complete polar opposites. One is calm, relaxing, charming, peaceful and pleasant and the other is intense, stressful, in your face, over the top and gratuitous. And also Ben and Adam have played …

Beautiful and 2-Dimensional, Adam listens to Tommy and Ben's review of Ori and the Will of the Wisps this week, along with more talk of the next Xbox and speculation about the PS5, an update on the I…

May we podcast in interesting times. This week Tommy, Ben and Adam are taking doctor's orders and recording from their separate homes as Tommy establishes whether or not he has come down with a case …

There ain’t no getting offa this podcast we’re on. This week the boys cover all the important topics - sparkling water, chairs, and some video games. Final Fantasy 7 Remake Demo gets a good going ove…

This week the boys talk about the ultimate games design tool, something that lets you create amazing story games, platformers, RPGs and more. Turns out a really good version of that is just a Dreams.…

You want to talk spiky blue balls? You've come to the right three men. This week Tommy, Ben and Adam go in-depth on what appears to be one of the biggest video game film adaptation of all time, Sonic…

This is a very special episode of Filthy Casuals. The boys are going to teach you about the birds and the bees. The bird, well that’s Kazooie from Banjo-Kazooie. The bees, well they’re also from a vi…

Welcome to Filthy Casuals: Reforged. Tommy now looks weird and worse than you expected, Ben doesn't legally own his own thoughts anymore, and Adam will come to your house and steal your old episodes …

As 2020 marches on, video games lie in wait far ahead, ready to pounce sometime in March, a little bit in April and May and then kind of not again until September. As for right now, we make do with w…

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"Two thousand and twenty" or "twenty twenty"? I feel like "twenty twenty" is the right one, but does that then mean that all the times we said "two thousand and five" or whatever were wrong? Should i…

It's time to wrap up our picks for the games and trends of the previous decade, before we dive headfirst into the 2020s. Will your favourites make the cut? Yes, they will. Because all of your video g…