The Casual Hour

This Week on The Casual Hour… Keigh3 is almost upon us, which means a pretty thin monthly preview as we wait for gaming’s biggest announcements to drop in the coming weeks. But we still have some games we’ve been playing to talk about. Chase checked out World of Final Fantasy Maxima (it’s bad!) and Bobby started up Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door (it’s good!) Plus a few other check-ins on this...

This Week on The Casual Hour… A new era of The Casual Hour has begun. Join Bobby and Chase as we talk about the games we’ve been playing (this week it’s Animal Well and Ghost of Tsushima), cover some interesting Sony handheld rumors and lay out our plans for the show moving forward. All that and more on this episode of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H -----------------------------------------------...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s Johnny’s last episode as a regular member of The Casual Crew, and we’re sending him off with a bang as we talk about one of 2024’s most interesting new releases — Animal Well. Plus, we’ve got some industry news, other games and a trip or two down memory lane. All on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H --------------------------------------------------...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Well, we were going to talk about how awful Sony is after the Helldivers 2 fiasco, but then Microsoft said “hold my beer.” In any case, we run down the week’s depressing news stories with our new guest Zoe, and we also cover some of the excellent games new and upcoming games we’ve been playing. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H -----...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s gonna be May! Or rather, it’s already May. So let’s talk about some of the games coming out this month, including exciting remakes like Paper Mario as well as long awaited indies like World of Goo 2 and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. Plus, Johnny has some hot, uncensored takes about Stellar Blade (it’s fine). All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T...

This Week on The Casual Hour… The Fallout TV has hit The Casual Hour, and it’s got Johnny and Bobby dipping their toes back into the wasteland of West Virginia in Fallout 76. Meanwhile Chase is cresting the 60-hour mark in Unicorn Overlord. Plus new on the Embracer Group, the future of live-service games and Nintendo being weird. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s a very special Deep Dive this month as the Casual Crew welcomes the co-founder and owner of Hard Drive and The Hard Times, Matt Saincome. After discussing the games everyone has been playing the crew poses their burning questions to Mr. Saincome and learn how Hard Drive came to be, having the initial reach the sites enjoyed smothered by Facebook and Google, and t...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We cover the Triple-I Initiative show, featuring a ton of new and interesting indie titles that are coming out in the coming months and years. Plus, we’ve been playing some current games as well, including Turbo Golf Racing, Children of the Sun and Unicorn Overlord. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H ----------------------------------...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It might be April, but there are no fools here on The Casual Hour (well, maybe Johnny). We’re running through all the biggest and most interesting games dropping this month. Plus, impressions of Pepper Grinder, Mario vs. Donkey Kong and a touch more Dragon’s Dogma 2. All that on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H ------------------------------------------...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Internet outages be damned, we have to talk about Dragon's Dogma 2, and luckily for Chase, he picked a good week to be off. Bobby and Johnny do their best to avoid spoilers while sharing their admiration for the wonderfully weird Dragon's Dogma 2. We also talk about crunch at R*, CDPR focusing on The Witcher 4, and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T...

This Week on The Casual Hour… With Dragon’s Dogma 2 on the horizon, the Casual crew are getting some games off their backlogs. Johnny tested the waters on the new Expeditions: A MudRunner Game while Bobby dusts off his Playdate to try Mars After Midnight. And Chase keeps plugging away at Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Plus, Bungie, Star Wars and Helldivers 2 news on this edition of The Casual Hour! //...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Bobby leads the crew through a Deep Dive on the good, bad, and sometimes very ugly collector's editions of video games. They take a look at what has worked, what hasn’t, and theorize on what's next for collector's editions. The gang reflects on their experiences with collector's editions over the last few decades. They also sneak in some hot takes on &...

This Week on The Casual Hour… You guys playing that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth? Because the Casual Crew sure is. We share our thoughts on the game’s early hours (spoilers up through Chapter 2 if you care) as well as what we’re liking and not liking about it. Plus, we’ve got a lot of news to cover, from Rooster Teeth shutting down to Nintendo suing Yuzu. All that and some freaky moogles on this edit...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Spring is in the air, as well as a bumper crop of new March video games. And The Casual Crew is here to separate the wheat from the chaff. Plus some thoughts on the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo ahead of the game’s release, early impressions on Pacific Drive and an exciting look at the Unicorn Overlord demo all on this edition of The Casual Hour. // T W I T C H -----...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s a big week for The Casual Hour, as a new Nintendo Direct (with a cameo from the related Xbox news last week) debuted today. Plus we’re all in on the exciting new indie game Bolatro that’s getting a lot of buzz. And of course, we have plenty of other games and news to cover as well, all on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H ---------------------------...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re back from our hiatus, and are just in time to talk about the big Xbox news…or we would be if there was any actual Xbox news. Even still, we’ll talk about Microsoft’s podcast response to recent rumors, and we’ll get angry about more layoffs at the Embracer Group. But hey, there’s some good news too: From Hell Divers to Enshrouded to Granblue Fantasy Relink, there...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Have you guys heard of this game called Palworld? Sounds wild. Bobby’s put over 40 hours into it so far and gives us the scoop. Plus Nintendo rumors and the end of Rock Band DLC, all on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M W F @ 9:00 PM CST twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re back with our first Deep Dive of 2024. Chase once again takes Bobby and Johnny down memory lane and into gaming’s peripheral history with Sony’s EyeToy camera device. We’re used to bombastic VR experiences today (Bobby even has one to talk about on our Whacha Been Playin’ segment), but let’s take a look into what motion gaming was like over two decades ago on th...

This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s our first Whatcha Been Playing episode of 2024, and we’re talking about…clickers? Damn right we are. Bobby and Johnny have been playing a new idle game with some very cool touches. Meanwhile, Chase is picking away at last year’s Star Ocean. All that, plus a pile of news stories on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H -----------------------------------...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We ran into some technical issues during the stream (maybe the archive is ok?), but Bobby and Chase ran through January’s new releases, and picked out the wheat from the chaff. Plus what have the boys been playing over the holiday break? Find out on this new episode of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H --------------------------------------------------------------------...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re making our resolutions for 2024. But instead of lame things like getting in shape or learning a new language, all of them are around important things…like video games. See what the crew promises to do this upcoming calendar year, plus hear about what games we’ve been chilling with now that GOTY is finally over on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H -...

This Week on The Casual Hour… We're closing the book on GOTY 2023 with each of The Casual Crew's top 10s. From little indies that could to the heavy hitters we all expected, we talk about all the games that wowed us over the past 12 months. And then we build our combined top 10 to see who really came out as the winner. Who will be number one? Find out on this edition of The Casual Hour! //...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Part 2 of our GOTY category-led podcasts sees The Casual Crew debating about our favorite moments games gave us this year, in addition to a fight no one wants to win: our brand new "Technically Terrible" award. All that and more on this episode of The Casual Hour. And be sure to tune in for our individual and collective top 10 lists next time! // T W I T C H...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Happy GOTY season to all who celebrate. Bobby, Johnny and Chase are back for another year of spirited debate and hurt feelings as we determine some of the year's best in gaming. Today's categories include things like Best New Character, Better Together and the always contentious Best Style. Join us Wednesday for more categories, then Friday for our personal an...

This Week on The Casual Hour… Another December, another Game Awards. The Casual crew comes together immediately after the curtains close to give our recap and reactions. Was Zelda robbed? Wasn’t that mech game cool? How is this show so long? The answers to all those questions and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H ---------------------------------------------------------------...