Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

It's a fresh year and that means a tonne of new games on the horizon. This week, we're taking a look at all of the big games on our radar for the next twelve months: new titles from huge developers, fresh sequels and (presumably) the release of a game that will no doubt be one of the biggest cultural events in recent memory.

It's the second part of our huge countdown of our favourite games of 2025. We have deep discussions about the biggest games of the year, some indie surprises, revived franchises, as well as a summary of our thoughts on the year as a whole!🌎Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ↣ https://nordvpn.com/filthy It’s risk- free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee! 👍Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/filthy

It's time for our yearly countdown of our favourite games of the past year! This week, we're going through numbers 6 - 10 of our individual lists as well as recapping the big news stories, trends and general feelings about the year in gaming.🌎Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ↣ https://nordvpn.com/filthy It’s risk- free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee! 👍Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/filthy

The Game Awards are done and dusted for another year and we've finally recovered enough to bring you all of the huge announcements from the show. A couple of co-op games, some new online shooters, a new Capcom IP and HEAPS more. Plus we've gone BARKING MAD for the great new puzzle game DOGPILE! 

After eight long years of waiting, it's finally here: Episode 528 of Filthy Casuals. Did I make a similar joke the other week? I can't remember and I'm too busy to check because I've been sinking a lot of time into Metroid Prime 4 Beyond. Does this long-awaited sequel live up to expectations? Are the NPC companions as annoying as the initial reports would have you believe? Is it fun to drive around the desert on a motorbike? We answer all of these questions as well as chatting about the future of Yacht Club Games and thinking about movies that Hideo Kojima could cameo in.🌎Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ↣ https://nordvpn.com/filthy It’s risk- free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee! 👍Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/filthy

We're a few days away from the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond so we're rounding up our hopes, dreams and fears for this long-awaited sequel. Tommy's been dabbling in a few demos to try and find the perfect 7 out of 10 game to enjoy over the summer break and Ben's dived in to the open-world action-adventure RPG Where Winds Meet.🌎Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ↣ https://nordvpn.com/filthy It’s risk- free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee! 👍Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/filthy

The nominees are out for the second most prestigious awards in gaming (behind The Filthy Casuals End of Year list): The Game Awards. We go through the nominees in the major categories before HOOVERING up a game that SHOULD be nominated in every single category: the excellent racing / fighting game hybrid Kirby Air Riders.

This week we're once again paying a visit to Ben's Dev Corner to hear another report on how his game is progressing. Who knows, it may even be eventually playable on the Steam Machine, Valve's new hardware which just got announced this week. We discuss the pros and cons and where we see this machine sitting in the console landscape. PLUS there's a trailer for the new Mario Galaxy Movie with some incredibly left field casting, some leaked Zelda movie on set footage, and we're reviewing The Seance of Blake Manor and The Simpsons Hit & Run!

We're dropping this episode ON TIME in order to let you know that Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed. What can we possibly do to fill ONE ENTIRE YEAR until it's released? Well, off the top of my head: we could play a bit of Simpsons Fortnite, we could try the demo for Dogpile, we could review the new Tears of the Kingdom prequel Hyrule Warriors - Age of Imprisonment, and then we could record a podcast about all of those things... That should take us 365 days or so, right?