The Casual Hour

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s July! And that means it’s time for another Casual Hour Preview episode. Join us as we run down the games for the seventh month of the year and see what strikes our collective fancies. We also hit the links in Mario Golf: Super Rush, ride our Monsties in Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin - Trial Version and and show our passports in Papers Please. All that a...

This Week on The Casual Hour… With all the Deep Dives, E3s and Preview episodes lately, this episode is all about catching up with the games we’ve actually been playing for the last few weeks. Umurangi Generation, FFV Intergrade, Bowser’s Fury, Sable, Dark Deity, Ratchet & Clank, Chivalry 2 and more. It is truly a feast of an episode on this edition of The Casual Hour! We’re On Twitch! Twitch....

This Week on The Casual Hour… Patric Brown is in the house as we talk about Capcom and Nintendo’s E3 showings before diving into everyone’s standouts from the entire week of E3 and E3-adjacent media. From cool 2D-indie games, to classic remakes and blockbuster teases, this E3 had a little something for everyone (unless the something you wanted was a new Switch). All that and more on this edition o...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We look back to April of 2002 as Johnny, Bobby and Chase pick out some news, reviews and oddities from an old issue of Game Informer and see how gaming journalism has changed over the years and how some of the most anticipated games of the time have fared almost two decades later. Grand Theft Auto III: Miami? FromSoftware before Dark Souls? And a game just called “Cha...

This Week on The Casual Hour… News for E3 keeps trickling in, and while we take in the drip feed, we’re also fitting in a few last games before the show. Chase is catching legends in the Pokemon Sword & Shield DLC, Bobby’s flying with Stonefly and Johnny’s checking back in on No Man’s Sky. All that, plus the Scarlet Nexus demo on this edition of The Casual Hour! We’re On Twitch! Twitch.tv/thec...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Between E3 (and/or other E3-like shows) and this list of known June releases, there’s a lot to be excited for in the halfway point of the year. It’s so excited, Chase’s audio setup can’t even handle it! Meanwhile, Bobby has started Biomutant, Johnny and his son get wrecked in Knockout City and Chase continues to make faces in Miitopia. All that and more on this editio...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re recording later than usual so you get The Casual Hour: After Dark. What’s different? Well, not much. Chase goes on a rant about the new Destiny season, Bobby dives into Subnautica: Below Zero and Johnny is a massive fan of Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Seems pretty par for the course. All that and the latest gaming news on this edition of The Casual Hour. We’re...

**Bobby's Audio is REALLY messed up on this episode. We apologize and encourage you to do what you normally do, just fast forward past his parts.** This Week on The Casual Hour… Welcome to another Deep Dive episode of The Casual Hour! Tonight, Johnny delivers a book report on the new book Ask Iwata. A nice little anthology of newly translated blog posts, segments from Ask Iwata’s and words of wisd...

Episode Description: This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s a week full of verbs. Snapping into Pokemon Snap, returning to Returnal and getting absolutely wrecked in Wreckfest. We also dive into the new season news for Destiny, Discord’s partnership with Sony and Nintendo’s newly announced programming tool, Game Builder Garage. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! We’re On Twitch! Twi...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’ve got The Casual Hour OG Patric Brown coming back home to the show for a guest spot as wave goodbye to April and rundown the games of May. Also, we chat about GTA Online, Disco Elysium, the Everspace 2 update, the new Switch demo for Miitopia and a whole lot more on this four-chair edition of The Casual Hour! We’re On Twitch! Twitch.tv/thecasualhour Schedule: M&am...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Chase is very confused. He thought he was the mechs and baseball fan of the podcast. But now Bobby’s playing the turn-based mech tactics game Phantom Brigade and Johnny’s dipping a toe into MLB The Show 21. What is the world coming to? We also cover The Longing, Pac-Man 99, Subnautica: Below Zero and more on this edition of The Casual Hour. We’re On Twitch! Twitch.tv/...

This Week on The Casual Hour… For this deep dive, we're going back 20 years to talk about the 2001 "classic" film, Final Fantasy The Spirits Within. How do you make a movie that loses $94 million and almost destroys your entire company? We find out on this edition of The Casual Hour! We’re On Twitch! Twitch.tv/thecasualhour Schedule: M&F 10:30PM CST W 7:30PM CST Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, s...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Chase has started a journey into Final Fantasy XII, Bobby’s trying new Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian and Johnny’s hacking his way through Rez Infinite in Whatcha Been Playing, then we cover E3 coming back, Bungie’s upcoming projects, and the Analogue Pocket delay in News. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour. We’re On Twitch! Twitch.tv/thecasualhour Sched...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re wrapping up March with new releases like Monster Hunter Rise and Narita Boy (and new old releases like Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Subnautica and Bladed Fury) before diving into a preview of the month of April. We also cover the…interesting smattering of games coming to Xbox Games With Gold and PlayStation Plus this month. All that and more on this edition of The...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Despite the title, we don’t actually talk about Valheim tonight. Instead, we cover a whole host of depressing video game industry news stories. But fear not, we also have some fun by talkin about Loop Hero, Everhood, Subnautica, Cozy Grove and even…DOOM Eternal? All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour. We’re On Twitch! Twitch.tv/thecasualhour Schedule: M&...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s March Madness. And to mark the occasion, we at The Casual Hour are having a tournament of our own. We’re here to determine the worst character in all of video games. From annoying fairies to backstabbing skaters to balls of steel, we (with the help of our chat) decide who’s the worst of the worst on this edition of The Casual Hour! We’re On Twitch! Twitch.tv/thec...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s Mario Day, and Nintendo is here to give us deals on old, barely Mario-adjacent games. Thanks…we guess. Outside of the Italian plumber-themed festivities, Chase struggles through Persona 5: Strikers, Bobby’s caught in Loop Hero and Johnny remembers he still has an Apple Arcade subscription. Plus we talk about Pokemon, TMNT and Bethesda news. All that and more on t...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re previewing the games of March, which means Bobby and Johnny want to talk about Monster Hunter Rise, and Chase wants to talk about anything else. We’ve also dug into the Outriders demo, Chase is in another timezone with Rock n Roll Racing, Bobby’s made Bowser furious and Johnny starting dicing some dungeons and captaining some toads. All that and more on this edi...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Anthem is dead, Valheim is very much alive and we’ve all tried the Project Triangle Strategy demo (and the newly released Persona 5 Strikers). Then the gang comes together to make predictions about Sony’s State of Play, which will be out by the time you hear this episode, so you can hear just how wrong we probably were. All that and more on this edition of The Casual...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Nintendo finally put out a new Nintendo Direct, so we spend most of our show running down the 50-minute presentation, despite mostly being disappointed by the lack of Fire Emblem and Breath of the Wild 2 news. Also, Chase continues to chip away at 13 Sentinels, Bobby is busy building in Valheim and Johnny goes to hell (or Hades, anyway). All that and more on this edit...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s time for another Casual Hour Deep Dive! This month Johnny takes us through the long history of the pack-in game, and how important a role they played in the making or breaking of a new piece of gaming hardware. From Pong on the Magnavox Odyssey to Astro’s Playroom on the Playstation 5, we cover them all. At least all the ones that matter.  And what’s the poi...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We put a final bullet into 2020 by reading over our PlayStation Wrap-Ups, and damn, Chase has played a lot of Destiny. When we’re not wasting more time in Bungie’s shooter, we’re talking about the other games we’ve been playing lately and covering the the latest news in the world of gaming (and high finance!) Olija, Hardspace Shipbreaker, Minecraft, Bravely Default, H...

This Week on The Casual Hour… You might be inclined to short 2021 based on January’s games lineup, but the upcoming games of February are going to cause that stock to skyrocket! Meanwhile, Bobby is chowing down on NUTS, Chase has fallen for Gravity Rush and Johnny presses us on Hitman 3. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send us some! thecasualhour...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re live? Oh god, we’re live. Yes, The Casual Hour has started streaming the podcast on Twitch. And it kind of worked…eventually. And on this inaugural live episode, Chase continues to struggle through Ni no Kuni, Bobby is hunting monsters and flying through space and Johnny has a big surprise to share that everyone is super happy about, especially Bobby. All that a...

This Week on The Casual Hour… On this “Deep Dive” of The Casual Hour, Bobby takes Johnny and Chase to the cloud to play some games. We talk about the current state of mobile gaming (it’s big), where it is heading (it gets bigger) and what 5G means for the future. We also break down the major players asking you to move to their cloud, all that and more on this special edition of The Casual Hour! Le...