Extremely Casual Gamers - With Ellie, Chris & Guy

Extremely Casual Gamers - With Ellie, Chris & Guy

A weekly casual gaming podcast for the everyday gamer. Hosted by mobile gamer Ellie Harwood. Featuring big game trophy hunter Chris Key. And Mr gives-up-halfway-through gamer, Guy Mansell. Throw in a dash of gaming news, personal reviews and you've got the ECG Podcast. This is a Frank Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Maggots and garbage

December 10, 2025 • 42 mins

On the final episode for 2025, Ellie’s super cool so wears sunnies for the entire episode, Chris doesn’t get to do his cool DIY segment AGAIN, and Guy breaks the rules of secret Santa. Also, we forgot gaming news lol. See you on 22 Jan!!



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Episode 111 - WE HAVE NEW MICROPHONES

December 3, 2025 • 53 mins

On the latest episode of the ECG podcast, Ellie walks us through her Christmas shopping list, Guy gets briefly addicted to Minecraft and Chris mentions an excellent segment but then doesn’t actually do the segment… 


Also, we have 2x headsets to give away on Instagram @extremelycasualgamerspodcast

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DLC - Gaming internship

November 30, 2025 • 7 mins
Thanks to Shon, we discuss which games would make for a great internship. Join the ECG4ECG group on Facebook to suggest a topic!

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Episode 110 - The dishwasher cutlery dilemma

November 26, 2025 • 44 mins
On the latest episode of ECG, the team celebrate winning Best Entertainment Podcast at the latest podcast awards, Ellie plays Minecraft… sort of and Guy promises to play a game but probably won’t.

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Episode 109 - The Chutney Gaming Hour

November 19, 2025 • 35 mins
On todays slightly shorter episode, Ellie is fishing for reality TV show ideas, Guy reminds us how immature he is, and Chris has had a response from Nan’s Chutney.

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Episode 108 - Grand Theft Iwi

November 12, 2025 • 31 mins
On today’s slightly shorter episode, Guy discusses GTA 6 being delayed AGAIN, Chris is fuming at Bethesda and Ellie shows off her impressive simpsons knowledge.

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DLC - games that define you

November 9, 2025 • 11 mins
Thanks to Daniel Simons, we take turns at guessing what video games define us. Join the ECG4ECG group on Facebook to suggest a topic!

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Episode 107: Ellie thinks Chris will be a bad father

November 5, 2025 • 65 mins
On the show today, Guy is fuming about a man on the internet, Ellie assures everyone that her dog is still alive, and Chris preps the team for podcast sponsorship!

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DLC - 25 Years of PS2

November 2, 2025 • 11 mins

The PS2 turned 25 this week so we’re celebrating by talking about our favourite games from this legendary console.


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Episode 106: The bar is so low

October 29, 2025 • 50 mins


On the show today - Ellie wants to know what sound or music from a video game gets you feeling all nostalgic. And Chris is bringing back the VO session for a third time but mixing it up a little bit.



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DLC - Kiwisimskate

October 26, 2025 • 26 mins
Kate is on the DLC this week talking about her contribution to The Sims 4. Kate is an NZ Sims streamer and we had a great time chatting to her about her latest project. 

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Episode 105: Thood for Fort

October 22, 2025 • 62 mins
On the show today - Chris is bringing the voice characters back from last week except this time he's got full blown scripts. And Ellie has a quiz of gaming questions pulled from the TV show Jeopardy.

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DLC - Nolan North

October 19, 2025 • 46 mins
Video game royalty is on the DLC this week, Nolan North. He’s been in the industry for years and voiced iconic characters, the most notable being Nathan Drake from Uncharted. The team had a great chat with Nolan ahead of his visit the NZ. 

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Episode 104: Ellie The Teenage Scottish Witch

October 15, 2025 • 44 mins
On the show today - Guy wants to know that if a genie popped out and granted you one gaming related wish, what would it be. And Chris is testing whether or not Ellie and Guy would be good as voice over artists. 

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DLC - Rob Davis from Suckerpunch Productions

October 12, 2025 • 37 mins
We have a very special and very legit guest on the DLC this week. Rob has been in the video game industry for over 20 years and his fingerprints have been on many amazing games we know and love. The most recent being, Ghost Of Yotei.

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Episode 103: First Words are “GET OVER HERE!”

October 8, 2025 • 53 mins
On the show today - Ellie is back from her week of being sick and wants to talk about games that we would recommend to the youths of today. Also Guy wants to know what you’ve managed to achieve non gaming related, while gaming.

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DLC - No Man’s PreOrder

October 5, 2025 • 13 mins
A question from Joshua on the ECG4ECG facebook group this week. What’s a game that you were super excited about pre launch that left you super disappointed. 

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Episode 102: Easy On The Truffles

October 1, 2025 • 59 mins
On the show this week - Ellie is sick so it’s just Chris and Guy, as they discuss the latest news in gaming, your feedback, and Chris wants to know if a certain game has made you want to a pursue a career. Guy also has an early review for the new Ghost Of Yotei game plus the winners of our 100 episode competition. 

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DLC - Far Cry From A Good Ending 

September 28, 2025 • 6 mins
Bit of a mess this one as something technical went wrong during the recording so it didn't grab everything. But we said some words and you can listen to them

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Episode 101: All Hail The Wood King  

September 24, 2025 • 55 mins
On the show this week - Chris has been doing some hard yakka at his house recently and wants to know which game characters you'd ask to help with DIY. And Ellie has a quick little Pokemon game for us to play. 

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