Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

A comedy podcast about video games, hosted by kind and knowledgeable boys (and Australian comedians) Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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July 24, 2025 91 mins
You know him from the movies, theme parks, and kart racing games and now, after all these years, he's finally in his own video game: DONKEY KONG BANANZA is here and we've spent a tonne of time ripping, smashing and pummelling our way through this glorious 3D platformer that begs the question: what if apes real life? And speaking of real life: The Great Man Miyamoto has announced the cast list for the upcoming live action The Legend...

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We've decided to drop a little preview of what we do every week on our Patreon podcast. From weird stories from our lives to movie reviews, TV recaps and other recommendations, every single week we release a full episode of a Bonus podcast for Patrons at patreon.com/filthycasualspod. Here we've compiled our discussions on Squid Game across two weeks. Hope you enjoy! NOTE: this will contain spoilers for all of Squid Game.

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This week we're wrapping up all of the new details from last weeks Ghost Of Yotei State of Play, as well as reviewing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 (because we're aging millennials), Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (because we're massive weebs) and some of the newly added levels in Astro Bot (because we love freaky little robot men). 


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It's another rough week of news over at Microsoft with the announcement that a bunch of games have been cancelled and more people laid off. What does this mean for the future of the platform and more broadly - how do you navigate being a fan of an art form that is governed purely by corporate interests and rife with attitudes that are so removed from fun and escapism? As an antidote to all of this harshness, we've been playing and ...

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The popular survival game The Alters has been found to have been using Generative AI. Is this a big deal? What does the spread of AI mean for the future of game development? And what does the mass layoffs at Xbox mean for the future of hardware development? Big questions that we do our best to wildly speculate on! Meanwhile, we're still sinking tonnes of hours into Death Stranding 2: On The Beach and Mario Kart World and we've got ...

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It’s time for another big episode of one of the best comedy and video games podcasts available on the chiral network.


DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH is finally here and The Great Man has done it again. We’ve played roughly the first half-a-dozen or so hours of the new blockbuster from Hideo Kojima so we’re wrapping up our initial thoughts on the improved pacing of the game, the stories, the characters and notable Australian fig...

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Tommy's come down with what seems like a common cold but may in fact be DONKEY KONG FEVER because we watched the Donkey Kong Bananza Direct overnight and we're still reeling from some of the new revelations. Pauline! Ostrich Bananza! DK Artist Mode! A confusing Kong family timeline! We also discuss our trip to Sydney to see two of The Great Men: Hideo Kojima in conversation with Dr. George Miller, as well as the demo for Tony Hawk'...

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June 12, 2025 90 mins

Wow is it really Not E3 again already!? Summer Games Fest has rolled around and we're wrapping up all of the big announcements from the week: some wild characters are showing up in the new Sonic racing game, there's freaky boxing puppets, surprise DLC for Lies of P, Game Freak making something that looks like it runs properly, a new detective story from Ryu Ga Gotoku, a new Resident Evil and stacks more!


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We've been burning the midnight and 7am oils and as a result we're now the proud owners of a Switch 2! We each have a Switch 2, I mean. We're not sharing custody of one Switch 2. We've been hammering Mario Kart World all day so we've got some early first day impressions PLUS a big round-up of everything announced in Sony's State of Play and Ben reviews the indie puzzle platformer Bionic Bay!


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Episode 500! Can you believe it? We've gone this long without kicking ourselves off the air. To celebrate, we're reminiscing a little bit on the history of the show and then doing something that neither we, or any other show, has dared to do before (possibly for good reason): delivering our definitive list of the Top 10 Video Game Characters To Host 500 Episodes Of A Podcast With! Who's got the best yarns, who's got the hottest rif...

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We've made it to the season finale of The Last of Us and the season finale of Videodrone with special guest GREG LARSEN. Ellie's still on the hunt for Abby, there's a cliffhanger, there's a weird creepy island, and (thankfully) there's no Skellingtons. How did we feel about this episode, the season as a whole, what are our predictions for the next season(s) of this show, and does Mr. Oily exist within The Last of Us universe!?


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It's the final week of Ben's Japan trip and he's fresh from a visit to the new Donkey Kong Country addition to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Osaka! We hear all about the new area: the food, the costumes, the music and of course the new immersive mine cart ride! On the other end of the spectrum, Tommy's been decapitating demons in the awesome new Doom: The Dark Ages, and in a sealed section at the very end, he's got some...

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One day we'll be fondly flashing back to this weeks episode of Videodrone with guest GREG LARSEN but for now, we're in the present, recording this episode of Videodrone where we recap the penultimate episode of season 2 of The Last of Us. Pedro is back, the great Joey Pants makes an appearance, and we're wondering how much they're going to cram into next weeks season finale!

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While the Ben's away, the mice will play... with a Nintendo Switch 2, with mouse controls. This week, Tommy is joined by ANDREW LEVINS to recap their big day at the Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on experience! We got to try out all of the big announced games so far: Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, Welcome Tour, and Drag X Drive, as well as the new upgrades for Super Mario Party Jamboree, Breath of the Wild & T...

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We're coming to you live from the Tullamarine airport car park with special guest GREG LARSEN to discuss episode five of season 2 of The Last of Us, including the coolest graffiti we've ever seen, which bits of this episode we were scared of, and which Festival we think the executives in at HBO are attending.

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Ben's in Japan and despite the Government's best efforts to keep us from podcasting with dodgy internet, we are logging on for a huge dose of news: rumours of an Xbox handheld, a playable demo of Hollow Knight Silksong and of course, the new cinematic trailer for a little game called Grand Theft Auto 6!


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GREG LARSEN joins us for another recap of The Last of Us. As Ellie and Dina arrive in Seattle, they have two huge life developments to confront, we learn more about the mysterious "Scars" and the WLF, and of course we're visited by our old friends The Skellingtons. It's another perfect episode of Videodrone, especially if you work for Sky News.

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What's this? ANOTHER surprise contender for Game of the Year so soon? And it's FRENCH!? Oui oui, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is here and we've been playing the hell out of it! Weird little guys, intricate combat and a melodramatic story - this game has it all. We also chat about the Oblivion remaster, 8BitDo no longer shipping to the US, and new "rumours" of a Playstation 6 on the horizon. Merci!


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After last weeks brutal episode we're back this week with Australian media bad boy GREG LARSEN. Ellie wants to hunt down the people who killed Joel but will the council of Jackson allow it? What's with these whistling people in the woods? And why have they cut out our favourite character from the video games? As always, we're doing a full episode analysis and then a clearly labelled section where we spoil upcoming plot points from ...

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We've shadow dropped this episode into your podcast feed in order to let you know about the following news items: there's a remaster of Oblivion out now, a new season of Playdate games is releasing soon and you'll be able to play as Mario in Mario Kart World which we learned from a recent Direct.


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