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It’s been another banner month in this year of gaming as each Casual Hour host has brought another potential Game of the Year contender to the table to chat about. Johnny’s rediscovered an old friend in the form of Mortal Kombat 11. Chase is wrapped up in the fascinating card mechanics of SteamWorld Quest. And Bobby is slicing fools with style in Katana ZERO. We then consider the rapid wind down o...

This Month on The Casual Hour... The Casual Hour is back? For some reason, yes. Yes it is. We’ve got the whole gang: Johnny, Bobby and Chase, and we’ve got a few games to chat about. Bobby’s high on the new Switch and PC indie game, Ape Out. Chase’s high on the new Switch and PC indie game, Baba is You. And Johnny’s high on decidedly not indie Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Then we chat a little about...

This Week on The Casual Hour... Part 2 of GOTY! We break down our personal Top 10's and further drive a wedge between each other. Will this be a moment of clarity for the gang, or will we stick to our mechanically broken guns and make bad decisions? Tune in to find out! Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send us some! thecasualhour@gmail.com   You can follow our show on Twitter at: @thecasualhour...

This Week on The Casual Hour... The time has come to deliberate a years worth of video games! The gang gets together live and in color to break down the best and the worst of 2018 live from Chase’s Apartment. What will take our top pick? Will Johnny and Bobby kiss and make up? Will Chase stop playing Destiny long enough to share his thoughts? Tune in to find out! Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send...

This Week on The Casual Hour... It’s our last show before Game of the Year time, and that means the gang is cramming on as many 2018 games as possible to get ready. Games talked about on this episode: Red Dead 2(it goes as well as it did last time), Pokemon Let’s Go, Dragon Quest XI, Kingdom Rush: Vengeance, a handful of PSVR games, Spider-Man, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey(and the mobile game AC: Rebe...

This Week on The Casual Hour... It’s been weeks since we’ve had the whole crew together so it’s time for us to catch up and discuss one of the biggest games of the year, Red Dead Redemption 2. Opinions are…let’s be generous and say mixed across the hosts. Get ready for some lively debate about this one. Meanwhile, Chase has finally put Dragon Quest XI to bed (kind of), Bobby and Johnny are dipping...

This week on The Casual Hour... ​​We’re getting spooky with a very special horror-themed episode featuring Nate from the BuckLyfe YouTube channel. It’s so spooky Bobby and Johnny were too scared to join, so Chase is handling hosting duties. We cover some of the horror games Nate’s been playing on his channel recently, Chase’s disappointment in Game Dev Story on the Switch and talk about the scarie...

This Week on The Casual Hour... ​​Johnny’s dealing with a stomach bug, so it’s just Bobby and Chase for this one. Bobby’s back from a Mexican vacation and played a lot of Switch indie ports on the plane. Chase continues to waste his life with Destiny, but at least things are new with the Festival of the Lost event. And we cover a bevy of news from around the industry, including an achievement that...

This Week on The Casual Hour... Bobby has started his Assassin’s Creed Odyssey while Johnny rips around England in Forza Horizon 4. Chase meanwhile is still chipping away at Dragon Quest XI. We also touch on the closure of Telltale, rejoice about cross-platform play and speculate on new Switch hardware. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send us som...

This Week on The Casual Hour... ​​We come back together after a week off and have a lot to talk about. Chase is still digging into Destiny and Dragon Quest. Bobby’s raiding tombs and finishing his Pokemon quest. And Johnny’s making the streets safer in Spider-Man then tearing them up in the demo for Forza Horizon 4. We also cover the recent Nintendo Direct, PlayStation’s new micro console and Poke...

This Week on The Casual Hour... Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion is out and Bobby and Chase don’t mention it at all…well actually, they won’t stop talking about it. Johnny’s grills them with questions about the good and the bad. Meanwhile, Johnny visits Donut County, Bobby is still churning through Pokemon games and Chase has taken his first steps into the world of Dragon Quest XI. All that and more...

This Week on The Casual Hour... We’re previewing the games of September, but before that, we’ve got some Nintendo Nindies news to cover, including the uncrowned game of 2018, Into The Breach, which surprise released on the day of this recording! Outside of those topics, Johnny and Bobby wax poetically about some game called Cyberpunk something or other. Who cares, really? (Can you tell Chase write...

This Week on The Casual Hour... We break down the coming releases of August while pondering the eternal question: ​​Bobby’s back and that’s big news, but not as big as our new and improved news segment. Once each month, we’ll review a few of the news items that caught our eye the previous four weeks and give you our ice cold takes on them. Also, we’ve been playing some video games. Johnny has boar...

This Week on The Casual Hour... This time it’s Bobby who’s missing in action, so Chase and Johnny decide to take this time to discuss their new obsession: Dead Cells. From strategies to comparisons to impressions we dive deep on this new roguelike experience. Other than Dead Cells, Johnny’s been making headway in Pokemon Ultra Sun, and getting beaten by his own son in Hole.io while Chase breaks th...

This Week on The Casual Hour... When the Johnny’s away, the mice will play…play Destiny that is. Chase and Bobby take advantage of the absence to talk about our thoughts on the upcoming Forsaken expansion. Guns in new slots, new weapon types, randomized loot, brand new exotics: We cover it all. Meanwhile, Bobby’s putting the finishing touches on Pokemon Pearl, Chase has finished Pokemon Ultra Moon...

This Week on The Casual Hour... We break down the coming releases of August while pondering the eternal question: How many 2D Dark Souls style games can there be in one month? Outside of that discussion, Johnny’s ready for a second round of No Man’s Sky, Bobby continues to plow through Pokemon and Chase has mercifully finished Super Robot Wars X and moved onto other equally as long winded RPGs. Al...

This Week on The Casual Hour... Apparently, last week’s episode didn’t get Pokemon completely out of our system, as we spend a third of this week’s podcast talking about the franchise as well. Once that’s finished, Johnny talks Overcooked co-op while Bobby and Chase take some time for Captain Toad on the Switch. Then it’s time for our mid-year check in. What’s everybody’s current top five before t...

This Week on The Casual Hour... We’re joined by returning guest Ryan Dampf ( @iamryzn ) as we talking all about Pokemon this week, specifically the second Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago. But the whole gang has caught Pokemon fever with Bobby playing SoulSilver, Chase playing Quest and Ultra Moon and Johnny playing Ultra Sun. All that and a lot of Wonder Trading on this edition of The Casual Hour! Let’...

This Week on The Casual Hour... We’re lovers, not fighters here on the show, but fight games? That’s another thing entirely. The crew recounts our favorite fighting game characters (some from truly dreadful games). Speaking of dreadful, Bobby and Chase have been slogging through another Destiny 2 Faction Rally. Meanwhile, Johnny picks back up on both Fire Emblem and Ni No Kuni 2. All that and more...

This Week on The Casual Hour... It’s our July preview episode, and while we’re all steeling ourselves for some fireworks on the 4th, there are some fireworks coming down the gaming pike as well. Listen as Johnny, Bobby and Chase detail what to keep an eye out for. As for what we’ve been playing this week, Johnny has jumped on the Ni No Kuni 2 train, Bobby is disappointed by Hollow Knight and Chase...

This Week on The Casual Hour... Everyone here’s feeling the E3 hangover, so how about a nice, casual chat about what we’ve been playing the last couple weeks? Bobby and Johnny dig into the newly Game Pass’d Division and Elder Scrolls Online while Chase is questing for Pokemon and playing yet another new baseball game. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour. Let’s Talk! We love fan ma...

This Week on The Casual Hour... E3 has happened and Bobby, Chase and Johnny are here to give their less than expert opinions on what they liked and didn’t like at the show. We cover all the major press conferences(sorryPC Gaming Show) and determine what our personal top three games were at the show. All of that on this edition of The Casual Hour! Let’s Talk! We love fan mail, send us some!  t...

This Week on The Casual Hour... The Electronic Entertainment Expo is starting soon, so we’ve gathered the whole crew to give our opinions on what we might see and not see at the show. We cover some of the news that’s leaked out, as well as our most farfetched wishes of games and announcements. In the meantime, we’ve also been playing a couple of new things. Bobby’s hit the links in The Golf Club 2...

This Week on The Casual Hour... As May comes to a close, The Casual Hour heats up with our June preview. Problem is, June might not be the best month for game releases this year. Bobby, Chase and Johnny try and pick the wheat from the chaff while anticipating the upcoming E3.  Meanwhile, for games we’ve been playing, Chase is reigniting his love for two old classics - Star Wars: Knights of th...

This Week on The Casual Hour... We take a walk down memory lane as we look back at E3 2017 to see how things actually shook out. Some things worked out OK (Monster Hunter, God of War, Dragon Ball FighterZ) while some decidedly did not (Sea of Thieves, Far Cry 5, Star Wars Battlefront 2). Meanwhile, Chase has been giving some small 3DS eShop games a look and Bobby commits an original sin for the se...