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Ben Vernel, Adam Knox & Tommy Dassalo

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The podcast where the fake movies in real movies become real movies from fake moviemakers. Hosted by Australian screen legends and comedians Ben Vernel, Adam Knox & Tommy Dassalo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The nominees are out for the second most prestigious awards in gaming (behind The Filthy Casuals End of Year list): The Game Awards. We go through the nominees in the major categories before HOOVERING up a game that SHOULD be nominated in every single category: the excellent racing / fighting game hybrid Kirby Air Riders. Hosted on Acast. See acast…
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This week we're once again paying a visit to Ben's Dev Corner to hear another report on how his game is progressing. Who knows, it may even be eventually playable on the Steam Machine, Valve's new hardware which just got announced this week. We discuss the pros and cons and where we see this machine sitting in the console landscape. PLUS there's a …
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We're dropping this episode ON TIME in order to let you know that Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed. What can we possibly do to fill ONE ENTIRE YEAR until it's released? Well, off the top of my head: we could play a bit of Simpsons Fortnite, we could try the demo for Dogpile, we could review the new Tears of the Kingdom prequel Hyrule Warriors - …
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Animal Crossing is finally getting a Switch 2 update and The Outer Worlds finally has a sequel. Coincidence? Yes. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, yes. We're chatting about both things this week plus more of our Ball X Pit obsessions and we're starting to think about our Top 10 lists for the end of the year. Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data p…
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The world went topsy turvy this week as Halo was announced for the Playstation 5 and Ben was in Adelaide. Thankfully, one of those things has been rectified and so we're back together chatting about recent games news and reviewing our new obsession Ball X Pit, as well as Once Upon A Katamari, Keeper, Cloverpit, and the demo for Dogpile. Hosted on A…
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A new Pokemon game is out in the wild which means that it's time for another round of 'What Are They Smoking In At Game Freak'? Pokemon Legends: Z-A has arrived alongside a MASSIVE leak of information regarding future plans for the mainline series, budgets, spinoffs and new engines. PLUS Ben's had a taste of the demos for Bubsy 4D, Reanimals and Ta…
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Our beautiful friend BEN RUSSELL joins us this week! He's got some on-the-ground gossip from PAX over the weekend, as well as some thoughts on the continuing issues at Microsoft, Nintendo's weird little short film experiments and a review of Ghost of Yotei! Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download the…
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This week we're taking a look back at the September 2025 Sony State of Play, which gave us our first proper look at games like Saros, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, Wolverine and... some speakers. We're also hitting the road for Sonic Racing Crossworlds with mixed results and venturing back into the underworld in Hades 2! Get an exclusive 15% discou…
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Are you tired of lame and boring video games podcasts that DON'T talk about the new advertisement for Sonic Racing Crossworlds, patents in video games, hidden bosses in Silksong as well as reviews of Cronos: The New Dawn and the very, very beginning of Trails In The Sky 1st Chapter? Well, you've come to the right place because on this cool podcast …
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It's Mario's 40th birthday and what better way to celebrate than with a bunch of farming sims and Dynasty Warriors spin-offs! We're wrapping up everything featured in the big Nintendo Direct from last week including the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie announcement, Metroid Prime 4 release date, and the Virtual Boy resurrection! We've also got more tho…
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The Loveable Lads from 'Laide, Team Cherry, are finally back with Hollow Knight Silksong. The game broke every digital storefront when it launch, but what are our early impressions of it? We've also got our first look at 007 First Light through an extensive State of Play, we've been wined and dined at a Playstation Playmakers event, and Ben reviews…
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Two big remasters this week - one of them featuring a deadly, highly skilled soldier who is able to seamlessly blend in to his surroundings in order to ruthlessly execute his targets, and the other one featuring Solid Snake. YES! We're also chatting about Resident Evil being too scary, games being too pornographic, and the failed experiment of an N…
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It was starting to feel like it wold never happen but the wait is over: there's finally a new episode of Filthy Casuals! We discuss the release date trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong and how the developers took their sweet time because they were having too much fun working on it. Plus, the strange case of developers struggling to get Switch 2 dev…
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LIVE (not really) from GAMESCOM (not really) this week we're bringing you a round up of a bunch of news and updates (yes really), including Hollow Knight: Silksong, a Black Myth sequel, a new Bubsy, and DLC for Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. We're also wrapping up the Kirby Air Riders Direct which gave us our first proper look at the racing, C…
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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 Gaide…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 G…
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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 week…
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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). Get an e…
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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 fr…
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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 ton…
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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 i…
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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: Hi…
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