The Casual Hour

This Week on The Casual Hour... It’s time for another Casual Hour Deep Dive, and on this episode, Chase is here to dig through Nintendo’s weird peripheral past and tell you everything about the N64 Transfer Pak. It worked with so much more than just Pokemon Stadium (ok, not that much more). Hear all about it on this edition of The Casual Hour. Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send us some! thecasualh...

This Week on The Casual Hour… With GOTY behind us, Bobby, Johnny and Chase have been tackling backlogs and enjoying the freedom of playing whatever they damn well please. And apparently, that means a lot of anime games! Super Robot Wars, Dragon Quest, Ni no Kuni: It’s Chase’s dream come true (and he’s only responsible for one of those games). After catching up on that, we dig into our preview of J...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Our first show of the year is actually our final show of last year as The Casual Hour comes together to reveal what our favorite games of the year were. Bobby, Johnny and Chase each list their top 10 games of the year, then we pour that data into our foolproof algorithm that’s never made a mistake (except for last year when it wrongly decided Monster Hunter World was...

This Week on The Casual Hour… • BEST DEBUT (best game that’s not a sequel, spinoff or part of an established brand) • PHONE GAME OF THE YEAR • BUCKLYFE PRESENTS: BEST HORROR GAME OF 2019 • BEST GAME YOU CAN BEAT IN ONE SITTING • BEST NEW CHARACTER • BEST NEW POKÉMON (self-pick) • BEST SWITCH PORT (best game that didn’t originally debut on Switch) • BEST STORY • THE LAST VR GAME YOU PLAYED (not eve...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Welcome to The Casual Hour’s 2019 Game of the Year series of shows. While we usually break our categories and top 10s into two separate shows, we had so much fun making and debating our categories, we decided to make another split. Here’s the first part of a total of 5 hours of GOTY content. See which categories we cover on this week’s show, and check back next week t...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s the final Casual Hour episode before GOTY, so we try to cram as much into one episode as possible. Chase and Johnny are exploring the Outer Wilds while Bobby flips between Death Stranding and Luigi’s Mansion. We also cover Nintendo and Sony’s recent streams and the new games announced in the,. And finally, a few gaming resolutions we’ll try to keep for 2020. All...

This Week on The Casual Hour… The crew is cramming for our GOTY final exams, and every minute counts. Star Wars, Outer Worlds, Death Stranding and Pokemon are all in the mix. Plus, Chase finally burned his free trial of Apple Arcade, so there’s a flood of new mobile games to talk about too. All that and more on this Traveling Tuesday edition of The Casual Hour! Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send u...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Game of the year is almost upon us, and most of 2019’s big releases are already in our hands. While that makes for a pretty light December to preview, Bobby and Chase are still digging around, looking for that diamond in the rough. Join us as we preview the remasters, ports and leftovers of 2019, and wonder what’s going to happen to some of the announced games for thi...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s been a massive couple weeks for games, and we’re here to talk about the big three: Death Stranding, Pokemon Sword & Shield and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Potential game of the year candidates all, we’ll break down the good, the bad and the ridiculous. Also on this episode: reactions to the announced Game Awards nominees, the aftermath of the Sonic movie re...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Welcome to The Casual Hour: Deep Dive! A podcast ostensibly about video games, but mostly about nuclear disarmament, nanomachines, and chirilium. Join us as we spend some time talking about the life of one of the world’s most prolific game developers, Hideo Kojima. From his childhood, watching movies each night with his family, to the release of his most recent work,...

This Week on The Casual Hour… As Johnny, Bobby and Chase wait with anticipation (or dread, depending on the day) for Death Stranding, we’ve all got a few other games we’re working on in the meantime. Chase is still digging into his massive backlog, putting time into Fire Emblem Sacred Stones and starting the 2018 visual novel, Heaven Will Be Mine. Johnny’s exorcised his demons and finished Control...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We say goodbye to October and hello to one of the biggest months in gaming this year, if only because of three games. Listen as we break down all the interesting (and not so interesting) titles you can play instead of paying attention to your relatives this Thanksgiving. In addition to our preview, we’ve also got our early thoughts on the console port of Return of the...

​​ This Week on The Casual Hour… ​​Bobby’s back from vacation and ready to talk about his new Apple Arcade obsession, Grindstone. He and Chase have also been putting some time into Game Freak’s newest game, Little Town Hero (and the results are…not great). And as expected, there’s some Destiny 2 talk as well. All that and a rundown of some of the latest gaming news including the recently revealed...

This Week on The Casual Hour… This week on The Causal Hour, we bring back co-host of the gaming YouTube channel BuckLyfe and horror game connoisseur, Nate Shryock to give us the rundown on the spookiest and most interesting horror games of 2019 while Chase puts on a brave face and tries not to get scared. We also go deep in the weeds on perennial favorite Binding of Isaac and Chase talks about how...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Prepare to get spooky on this Deep Dive as Bobby takes Chase and Johnny through the oftentimes debunked, but always interesting Gaming Urban Legends. From Pokemon to Pale Luna, the gang goes through the phenomenon of viral second-hand sharing that has lead to decades of speculation. Is the government controlling kids through arcades? Was Mew really under that truck? D...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s one small step for Bobby and Chase, but one giant leap for Johnny as we all return to the moon in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep. And to help us break it all down we’ve invited friend of the show and Destiny veteran Phil Jaycox to discuss what’s good and not so good in Bungie’s latest expansion. Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send us some! thecasualhour@gmail.com You can f...

This Week on The Casual Hour… No tricks when it comes to previewing of all the most interesting games dropping in October. New Call of Duty, new Destiny expansion, new Luigi’s Mansion and more headline a big month for games. But in more current news, Johnny’s practicing at Control while also fielding the chaos of Mini Motorways, Chase is deep into his quest to wake the Wind Fish in Link’s Awakenin...

This Week on The Casual Hour… ​​Bobby and Chase hit on the hot gaming news topics of the last couple of weeks including the newest Pokemon revealed for Sword and Shield, Apple Arcade’s impending launch and Nintendo’s newest foray into the fitness world. In addition to that we also talk about a few games we’ve been playing lately. Bobby’s happily bouncing through Creature In The Well and Greedfall...

​​ This Week on The Casual Hour… ​​We debut a new feature to The Casual Hour: Deep Dives. Once each month, one member of The Casual Hour crew will present a topic to both the other hosts and you, the listener. To kick things off, Johnny dug into the history of famed game developer, Bungie. If all you know from them is Halo and Destiny, get ready to learn a lot! Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send u...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s a two-man show this week as Bobby and Chase cover all the news from the latest Nintendo Direct, including info on Pokemon Sword and Shield, Luigi’s Mansion 3 and most importantly, TOKYO MIRAGE SESSIONS IS COMING TO SWITCH! When Chase isn’t sharing his unbridled joy, we also talk about a few games we’ve been playing recently: Assassin’s Creed Origins, Control and...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’ve got some announcements on changes to our usual format. You can listen for all the details, but the big news is that we’re going to start putting out episodes weekly going forward. So get used to hearing Bobby, Chase and Johnny’s shenanigans a lot more frequently. And with the return of weekly episodes, we’re also bringing back our monthly review/preview show. We...

This Month on The Casual Hour... It's Christmas in July for the Casual crew as everyone's got a new game or two that's stealing both our time and our affections. Johnny's playing with all sorts of blocks in Dragon Quest Builders 2, Bobby's brawling in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 and Chase leads the gang in hours spent on Fire Emblem Three Houses. All that plus Pokemon ROM hacks and a little bit of...

This Month on The Casual Hour... With E3 in the rearview mirror, it’s time to get back to playing games, and The Casual Hour crew’s got some hot June releases to dig into. Johnny and Chase have been constructing levels in Mario Maker 2. Bobby and Johnny are getting into a rhythm with Cadence of Hyrule, and everyone’s been playing a lot of Slay The Spire (and not much My Friend Pedro). And since th...

The guys have soaked up two hours worth of E3 news, coverage and analysis for your listening pleasure. Hear everyone (even Chase) gush about Cyberpunk 2077 and its incredible cameo. Get an earful of all our opinions on the Final Fantasy VII Remake. And listen to Bobby reference that Giant Bomb interview with Phil Spencer an uncomfortable amount of times. All that and more on this special E3 recap...

This Month on The Casual Hour… ​​‘Twas the week before E3 and all through the house, Johnny, Bobby and Chase were debating what games and news would come out of the biggest video game show of the year. Will Microsoft or Nintendo show off some new hardware? How will CD Projekt Red follow up on their big Cyberpunk trailer last year? Will Yoko Taro be there? All questions we dig into on this edition...