Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Ben's back from New Zealand, just in time to wrap up the final bunch of Summer Games Fest announcements. Nintendo have dropped a Direct on us for the first time in a while, featuring JRPGs, thumb wrestling and confirmation of the long-rumoured Ocarina of Time remake. Plus over at the PC Gaming Showcase, there's magical die, cooking sims, power washing and demos galore!

They call it SUMMER Games Fest but I dunno man, it's like 11 degrees today and I've got the heater on. What's that all about? We've got a huge week of game announcements to cover from Sony's State of Play, The Summer Games Fest Presentation and Microsoft's Xbox Showcase. We're taking you through all of the big news - the surprise announcements, exciting reveals, unnecessary remakes, and deceased celebrity cameos.

Two MASSIVE games to get through this week which makes it the perfect time to go on a tangent about hog sizes. Once that’s wrapped up, it’s time to talk about 007 First Light and Mina The Hollower. There’s also news about a Steam Deck price increase, Yuji Naka copping strays in the press, and a delay for the much-anticipated Fable. 

We're in the board room this week and what better place to discuss the gaming industry's newest source for big announcements: the earnings call. We're getting closer and closer to the roll out of Grand Theft Auto 6 and so we're speculating about what kind of advertising and tie-ins we're going to see for this massive cultural event. Plus, we've also spent a bit of time with Yoshi And The Mysterious Book, and Zero Parades For Dead Spies!Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/filthy

One of us has been struck down by illness but that won't stop us from weighing in on the bonkers controversy surrounding the indie darling Mixtape! There's also news of a new Nintendo mobile game, Ben's been playing Gambonanza: the new Balatro-style twist on chess, while Tommy's been taking on the fascists in Indiana Jones & The Great Circle on Switch 2.Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/filthy

Remember Star Fox? He's back! In grotesque puppet form! There's a "new" Star Fox game on the horizon and we're discussing everything we know from the divisive art style to the effectiveness of using a movie to promote an upcoming game. We've also had a huge look at Ryu Ga Gotoku's new decades spanning game Stranger Than Heaven, Ben's played more Saros and Tommy's checked out Mixtape.Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code FILTHY at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/filthy

Recently we got the biggest jump scare of our lives when we realised that we never followed up on our planned Resident Evil Requiem spoiler chat. Thankfully, a teaser trailer dropped this week for Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil film, which has given us a reason to revisit it! And while we're at it, we're spending more time chatting about the highly addictive Vampire Crawlers and Ben's got some early impressions of Housemarque's new bullet hell nightmare Saros!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 Super Mario Galaxy Movie has made hundreds of millions at the box office ($30 of which is thanks to Tommy) and so it's no surprise that a bunch of other video game adaptations are on the horizon. This week, we're digging into the casting news for Elden Ring and the announcement that adaptations of Call of Duty and Battlefield are being worked on. We're also reviewing Vampire Crawlers, the awesome new card-based spin-off of Vampire Survivors, and Tommy's house has been thrown into turmoil thanks to Tomodatchi Life!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 a huge week for new releases and we're covering all of them BABY! We've caught up on the incredibly addictive rougelike Sol Cesto, which fuses gambling with freaky little European cartoons, we've both checked out a bit of Mouse: P.I. For Hire, a detective noir / 1930's animation first-person shooter, we've been populating our islands with pets and demons in Tomodatchi Life, Ben's been running around in the stylish cyberpunk setting of Replaced, and Tommy's been hacking and shooting in Pragmata, the brand new IP from Capcom. Is that enough games for ya, PAL!?