Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

By Tommy Dassalo, Ben VernelComedy TV & Film Leisure Video Games

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Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel episodes

August 14, 2025 Episode 511: Wheel World, Nintendo News, Death Stranding 2 & DK Bananza Spoiler Chat
Tommy's back from Vietnam and there's a bunch of Nintendo presentation news to catch up on! A new Katamari Damacy, a few indies on the horizon, and a campfire to chill next to. We've also been playing some new games: Ben tackles the bicycle adventure Wheel World and the FF7 knock-off Fantasian, while Tommy's taken on the early stages of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. PLUS we've both finished Donkey Kong Bananza and Death Stranding 2: On The Beach so we discuss our thoughts on the endings and big reveals in a clearly marked Sealed Section!

Donkey Kong Bananza Spoilers (53:28 - 1:12:30)

Death Stranding 2 Spoilers (1:12:50 - )

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1 hr 41 min
August 07, 2025 Episode 510: The Legend of Case Boy with Dilruk Jayasinha
Special guest DILRUK JAYASINHA joins us this week to take us through his personal history of gaming! We cover a tonne of ground in this loose and silly episode including: growing up in Colombo in Sri Lanka, what was the most coveted game console at the time? Why did his dad's work colleague buy him a Sega Game Gear? And what is the best video game to play while making love?
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1 hr 12 min
July 31, 2025 Episode 509: How To Fix The Video Games Industry
Let's be honest, the gaming industry is in a pretty rotten place. In the last few months alone we've seen layoffs, cancellations, and price hikes - just to name a few. So this week, we're putting our heads together and brainstorming a few ideas for Fixing The Games Industry - all of which are totally serious and genuine and which we wholeheartedly stand behind!

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1 hr
July 24, 2025 Episode 508: Donkey Kong Bananza Review
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 of Zelda movie!
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1 hr 32 min
July 19, 2025 Squid Game Season 3 Review | Patreon Preview
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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32 min
July 17, 2025 Episode 507: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
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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1 hr 15 min
July 10, 2025 Episode 506: Anger Foot, Xbox Cancellations
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 loving the great new (for PS5) indie game Anger Foot!

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1 hr 11 min
July 03, 2025 Episode 505: Is XBox Hardware Dead? AI In Games, Death Stranding 2 & Mario Kart World Further Thoughts
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 further thoughts on both of those games after our initial day one impressions over the last couple of weeks!
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1 hr 39 min
June 26, 2025 Episode 504: Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
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 figures we’re hoping make an appearance!
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1 hr 16 min
June 19, 2025 Episode 503: Donkey Kong Bananza Direct, Hideo Kojima Live
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's Pro Skater 3 & 4, and the Switch 2 port of Cyberpunk 2077!

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1 hr 26 min