Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Good lord, it's finally happened. After years of rumours, leaks and speculation, we've FINALLY got ANDREW LEVINS to use his microphone properly! The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct has now happened and we've seen our launch title Mario Kart World, a new Donkey Kong 3D platformer, updates to Switch 1 games, a massive third party library, a new From Software title and of course: the C button. Hosted on Aca...

This week, Ben has checked out the new Steven Soderbergh crime thriller 'Black Bag' PLUS we are nearing the end of season three of The White Lotus! The girls have imploded, The Ratliffs are in freefall, and Rick finally has his long-awaited confrontation. We wrap it all up and give our predictions for the finale next week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys sit down for definitely the last ever Nintendo Switch 2 speculation they'll ever do they definitely promise we're so sorry. They also chat about somes of the games shown at GDC 2025 including to a T, Take Us North, Phantom Blade Zero, Wheel World and more, and Ben talks about the first few hours of Assassin's Creed: Shadows. It's one of the episodes of all time. Get Exclusive NordVPN deal...

We're IRL for the first time on Videodrone for an all TV recaps episode! We dive straight in to The White Lotus and the fallout from those grubby Ratliff boys at the Full Moon party, before getting in to the season 2 finale of Severance! (from 56:17). Did they stick the landing? What did we think of this season as a whole, and what do we think is in store for season 3? Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

You've made it through the harsh forest and into a peaceful clearing where a little troll and a cranky warrior are working together at a... podcast studio? As you get closer, you can hear them talking about Sony refusing to let Jonah Hill's character even TOUCH a Playstation in Superbad, The horrendous AI-generated trailer for Ark: Aquatica, the hidden secret level in Split Fiction, and the new co...

This week GEN FRICKER is back to tell us about the short film 'Joey Earns Rewards Using the McDonald's Mobile App & Megh and Clev Discuss Their Future Together'. We're recapping everything about this weeks White Lotus including one of the all-time great guest spots and monologues (00:13:28 - 1:05:00) And our thoughts on this seasons penultimate episode of Severance, and our thoughts on the sea...

Split Fiction is out which means that we've taken a break from sitting next to each other on a couch and talking about video games at the same time in order to sit next to each other on a couch and talk about video games at the same time. We've played through the first part of Hazelight's new couch co-op platformer and have all manner of thoughts about how to hit switches and turn handles. We also...

This week on VIDEODRONE it's a Boys Only episode as they lose Gen to illness, and it's a TV Only episode too because there's just too much content for one week. The fellas spend the entire podcast discussing Tim hanging dong in The White Lotus, so strap in! Nah jk, it's a big episode of The White Lotus as the boat party ends up revealing more than just penis, and a very contentious episode of Seve...

We thought we were going to be doing this weeks episode in a world where a remake of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 & 4 hadn't been announced but we were DEAD WRONG! Tommy's stayed up until 1am to watch the Pokemon Presents which gave us our first look at Pokemon Legends A-Z. How do we feel about the shift into a more modern setting? Who cares, because we have a huge new release to talk about: Monst...

We've got that post Oscars clarity this week as GEN FRICKER joins us for a brief wrap up of the big night! We've also hit the Vega strip for the razzle dazzle of The Last Showgirl, and we're going deep on the symbolism and theories for The White Lotus S03E03 and losing our minds trying to work out what's going on in Severance S02E07! WHITE LOTUS SPOILERS: 35:30 - 01:06:00 SEVERANCE SPOILERS: 01:06...

Ahoy, landlubbers! Filthy bilge rats Tommy and Ben have been sailing the high seas of the Steam Next Fest, making some WB executives walk the plank after their recent studio closures and also some other pirate metaphor used to connote that they've been playing Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii. It may be a spin-off of the main series but have Ryu Ga Gotoku ended up making the best pirate game...

This week, GEN FRICKER joins us once again as we discuss: The Brutalist (Spoiler-Free), MAFS and Airline Hacks (00:01:25 - 00:25:00) The White Lotus Season 3, Episode 2 (00:25:00 - 01:01:00) Severance Season 2, Episode 6 (01:01:00 - ) Two horny episodes of television in two very different ways! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week we visited a shady figure on the outskirts of town and re-specced ourselves as podcasters and so here we are: two fellas on the mics talking about the forty thousand dollar Switch 2 that's on sale on the dark web, the massive failure of whatever that Funko Pop game was, the Donkey Kong Nike Air Max, and reviews of Obsidian's new fantasy action RPG Avowed, plus the Metal Slug inspired Met...

The White Lotus is back this week and so we've gone full recap mode for this episode. It's a new resort, a new locale and a whole new batch of freaky rich people to discuss. What's going on with the Ratliff family? What's The Gogg up to? Will we see Tommy in the background of any shots? Meanwhile, on Severance, we're dealing with the aftermath of that cataclysmic ORTBO. Will Helly be able to regai...

There's nothing quite like waking up, making a fresh pot of java and jumping straight onto Youtube in order to watch fifty minutes worth of trailers for WWE and Five Nights At Freddies, and that's exactly what we've done this week. We're breaking down all of the announcements from today's Sony State of Play, including our first look at the new game from Housemarque. We've also spent a bit of time...

This week we're loaded up on wings and cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon with GEN FRICKER , ready to bring you our extensive Super Bowl coverage! Or at the very least, a bit of chat about Kendrick Lamar's half-time show. We're also reviewing the filme Nickel Boys, the continuing saga of Emilia Perez and the surreal goings-on of Severance season 2, episode 4! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Woolworths? Coles? IGA? Aldi? NO THANKS. At Filthy Casuals, we choose to do all of our grocery shopping at the Costa Rican Super Mario supermarket chain, which this week has had a landmark victory against the famously litigious Big N. We also chat about Dragon Age: The Veilguard not living up to certain expectations, the pressures on smaller studios to pull the pin on projects that aren't shaping...

We've managed to tear ourselves away from Cine2Nerdle just long enough this week to wrap up Luca Guadagnino's surreal William S. Burroughs adaptation 'Queer', starring Daniel Craig. GEN FRICKER takes us through the new science fiction horror 'Companion' and we visit the Goat Room in episode three of season two of Severance! filthycasuals.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Name me a single other podcast that would be brave enough to feature the following topics on the one episode: Bizarre Perth architecture. The Xbox Developer Direct, including a new look at the gameplay for South of Midnight, Doom The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and an announcement of Ninja Gaiden 4. Reviews of new indie games Keep Driving and Lonely Mountain Snow Riders. Funny accen...

Our good mate GEN FRICKER is back to join us in casting a discerning eye over the 2025 Oscar Nominations, before we all review the spectacular Sean Baker joint Anora, and finally dive deep into the second episode of season 2 of Severance. We're finally reunited with the best character on the show, and once we're done talking all things Ricken we see where all the rest of the Outies are. filthycasu...

Years and years of speculation, leaks, rumours, blurry photos, forum posts and industry whispers have led to this moment: a two minute video with barely any information in it. Nevertheless, the Switch 2 has finally been revealed and so we've got ANDREW LEVINS on the line to chat about everything we've seen on this new console and the tantalising glimpse of a new Mario Kart. We're also chatting abo...

Welcome to VIDEODRONE, our new offshoot podcast where each week we're going to be chatting about the new releases in film and TV, as well as recapping the biggest TV shows of the moment, with the same level of jackassery that we bring to video games discourse every week on Filthy Casuals. We're going to be joined by GEN FRICKER for the next little while to recap season two of Severance in the back...

The leaks, rumours and speculation were all true: there is a new episode of Filthy Casuals online right now, in which we are talking about the absolute deluge of Nintendo Switch 2 leaks and rumours: from dummy consoles, to software line-ups, to entire motherboards showing up online, it really does feel like we are days away from an official announcement. But who knows! Definitely not us. Or do we?...

It's still early enough in the year that it's very quiet on the new games front so we've dragged our little fannies down to the multiplex to check out SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 with special guest BEN RUSSELL! We do a deep dive on every aspect of the film: did an AI write the script? How many hours did Keanu Reeves spend in the voiceover booth? Why is there a reference to The Green Lantern (2011) halfwa...

One year is over and now another year has begun. Personally, I've never seen anything like this happen before but I'll do my best to put that out of my head and get stuck into what is sure to become the new craze of 2025: "Podcasting". We're taking a look ahead at the games we'll be playing this year: there's a sequel to Ghost of Tsushima which we can neither remember nor pronounce the title of, t...