Ostensibly, The Casual Hour is about video games, but in reality, we’re mostly about food opinions, merciless ribbing and hanging out with friends. Each week, hosts Bobby, Chase and Johnny talk about the newest releases, discuss the latest news, play old favorites and take deep dives into a variety of gaming related topics through streams, podcasts and quick looks. Come join us! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecasualhour/support
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Episode 389 - You Lose Nothing, Except Your Pride
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This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s monthly preview time here on The Casual Hour! Hear Bobby and Chase run down the games releasing in September, including Astro Bot, Zelda, Dead Rising and more. Plus Bobby’s deep into the hottest game on the planet right now, Black Myth Wukong, and shares his thought. All that and more on this edition of The Casual…
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Episode 388 - Deep Dive: Favorite FPS Games
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Bobby and Chase are shooting the shit as we run down our favorite first-person shooter games of all-time. Plus we’ve got an update on SteamWorld Heist 2 and a first look at Shapez 2, a game made exclusively for sickos (like Bobby). All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H -------------------…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… We’re back from our break and have some brand new games to talk about. Bobby and Chase have both been sailing the high seas of SteamWorld Heist 2, and it takes the main focus of our Whatcha Been Playing episode. In addition, Bobby’s made it to Thank Goodness You’re Here, and Chase is going around and around with Ouros.…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Another month, another monthly preview. This time, Bobby and Chase take a look at the games dropping in August (there are a lot of them) and pick out our favorites. Plus, Bobby checked out Capcom’s new Kunitsu-Gami and Chase dug up a classic with Jazzpunk. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I …
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Episode 385 - Gonna Take You For A Ride
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This Week on The Casual Hour… In honor of the recent Evo fighting game tournament, Bobby and Chase decided to have a little fun and make up own rosters for a theoretical new Marvel Vs. Capcom game. Hear who we’d like to see and then go vote on who has the better list on our Threads account. Plus, we’ve got new games to talk about like Dungeons of H…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Bobby and Chase share our biggest gaming pet peeves (and we talk about yours too!) What mechanics and practices grind our gears? Also, Bobby’s feet are angry? Tune in and find out on this Deep Dive edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H -------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 383 - Farm Ultimate Bunny Fast
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This Week on The Casual Hour… As Bobby takes a dive into the waters of F2P titles like The First Descendent and Zenless Zone Zero, The Casual Crew decides to explore our own history with free-to-play and gacha games. What makes them appealing? What makes them dangerous? And where do they fit in the larger gaming landscape. All that plus first impre…
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Episode 382 - Dumb, But Not Stupid
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This Week on The Casual Hour… We bid farewell to June and invite in the month of July for our monthly preview episode. Some big free-to-play hitters are dropping this month, and a few have even seemed to find their way onto our radar. Plus a few very cool looking indies to round out the month. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! /…
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Episode 381 - Sometimes You Get the Beef, Sometimes You Get the Jerky.
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Forza Horizon 4 is getting delisted in December, and it’s got Bobby and Chase all up in our feelings. On this episode we talk about game licensing, preservation, privacy and everything in between. Also, Chase gives a check in on Paper Mario and Bobby takes a trip to Night Springs in the new Alan Wake 2 DLC. All that and more on this edition of The …
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Summer Games Fest may be behind us, but Nintendo made sure there were lots of upcoming games to talk about this week. Bobby and Chase run through the new Nintendo Direct featuring new Mario, Metroid and Zelda games, as well as a few other little surprises. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I …
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Episode 379 - I’m Not Geoff Keighley
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Keigh3 has come and gone, and it’s up to Bobby and Chase to recap the weekend that was. We run down our favorites from all the shows, including Summer Game Fest, Day of the Devs, Wholesome Direct, Xbox and many….many….more. Hear our thoughts on the new direction for Perfect Dark, the really funky Screenbound and why we…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… After a recent Polygon article, Bobby and Chase decide to take a look back at Indie Game: The Movie, the 2012 documentary following the development of Fez and Super Meat Boy, and compare how the landscape, marketing and discoverability of indie titles has changed in the 12 years since the movie’s release. We also talk …
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Episode 377 - I Don’t Want To Die…Repeatedly
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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 Doo…
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Episode 376 - We Can Make It Home with One Worm Light
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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…
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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 …
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Episode 374 - Full-Shrek Experience
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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 thi…
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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…
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Episode 372 - The Casual Hour Enterprises & Friends
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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 …
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Episode 371 - Deep Dive: Matt Saincome of Hard Drive and The Hard Times
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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 sit…
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Episode 370 - Daddy’s Got A Brand New Toy
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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!…
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Episode 369 - It’s Got That Juice
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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 …
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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 mor…
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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 Helldi…
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Episode 366 - Deep Dive: Video Game Collectors Editions
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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…
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Episode 365 - Tomato Tomato, Balatro Balatro
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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 Y…
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Episode 364 - Dinner For My Friends, Supper For My Family
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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 thi…
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Episode 363 - You Can Banish A Lot Of Things
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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 Casua…
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Episode 362 - Much Ado About Nothing
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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 Dive…
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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…
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Episode 360 - The Bug One Everybody Cares About
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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…
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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! …
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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 ------------------…
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Episode 357 - Better to be Once Human than Too Human
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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…
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Episode 304 - GOTY 2023: The Casual Hour Top 10
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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 …
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Episode 355 - GOTY 2023: Casual Categories PT.2
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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 collectiv…
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Episode 354 - GOTY 2023: Casual Categories PT.1
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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 c…
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Episode 353 - The 2023 Keighleys Post Show
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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 -------------…
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Episode 352 - The Man’s All Yams
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This Week on The Casual Hour… The final game preview of 2023 is here. The Casual Crew has been busy playing and preparing for the Game of the Year, with possibly a few more games to explore in December. We share our thoughts on Persona 5 Tactics, Super Mario RPG, and get our tickets ready for The Last Train Home. Enjoy all of this and more in this …
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This Week on The Casual Hour… As Bobby cruelly counts down our episodes until Game of the Year (the count is down to 4, including this episode), the crew has been putting some time into some interesting titles. Chase is still plugging away at Star Ocean: The Second Story R, Bobby’s hit credits on Everspace 2 and Cocoon and Johnny’s built in a coupl…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… From Bungie to Rockstar to Fortnite, we’re covering all the biggest recent gaming news on this episode. Also, Johnny’s been questing around in Roboquest, Bobby’s back in virtual reality and Chase starts a couple of new RPGs. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H --------------------------…
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Episode 349 - I’ll Be Your D*ckhead Party Member
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This Week on The Casual Hour… It’s November preview time, and there are a lot of games to cover (a handful of which even look pretty good!) In the meantime, the crew’s been playing a handful of new games, including Alan Wake 2, Endless Dungeon and Reverse 1999. Come join us for some fun on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H -----------…
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Episode 348 - Marvel's Mario Stranding
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This Week on The Casual Hour… In what may go down as one of Johnny's most unoriginal moves, he decided to prepare the exact same Deep Dive that Bobby did back on episode 137. Two-thirds of the crew used this failed move as an opportunity to delve into a lengthy discussion on Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Bros Wonder. All that, plus a sense …
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Episode 347 - You Just F****** Click!
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This Week on The Casual Hour… From brand-new titles to really cool romhacks, The Casual Hour has a gaggle of games to talk about on this packed Whatcha Been Playing episode. And we’ve got some less than fun news to discuss as well. Come join us on this edition of The Casual Hour! // T W I T C H ------------------------------------------------------…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… The whole crew’s been trying out new and interesting games this week. Johnny took a test drive of the new Forza Motorsport, Bobby’s diving deep into the various worlds of Cocoon and Chase found a weird puzzle game that’s taking Japan by storm. All that plus a recap of all the rough video game industry news on this edit…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… There are simply too many games coming out this month, and we attempt to cover the most interesting ones in our October preview. In the meantime, Bobby’s farming and battling in Moonstone Island, Johnny’s caught the Counter Strike 2 bug and Chase digs back into an old Fire Emblem game. All that and more on the mega edi…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Chase is away, as evidenced by the time stamp, and in his absence, Johnny decides to join us. Bobby and Johnny have a conversation about the lack of staying power in Starfield, the importance of Baldur’s Gate 3, the stylish Devolver darling Gunbrella, as well as an update on Unity and the Xbox leak. You can catch all o…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Chase ha brought a game this week, which is a normal thing we do on a video game podcast. But this time, the game IS the podcast. Join The Casual Hour Crew as we test our game knowledge (and test yourselves against us! Plus, Johnny’s been puppeting around Lies of P, Bobby’s learning words in Chants of Sennaar and Chase…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… Johnny’s still out, so it’s up to Chase and Bobby to recap all the news from the recent Nintendo Direct and Sony State of Play. Hear our thoughts on the exciting (and not so exciting) titles slated to come out at the end of this year and the beginning of the next one. Also, Bobby finished Starfield! What does he think …
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Episode 341 - And Then He Murdered Me
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This Week on The Casual Hour… With Johnny still out, we have brought back one of our favorite guests, Giggysan, to help us get through this week in gaming. From new releases like Armored Core and Starfield to old favorites like Front Mission 3, we’ve got a lot to share on what we’ve been playing. Plus, Zelda news and gamers being shitty about yet a…
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This Week on The Casual Hour… After a packed August, it’s nice to just have a chill month where nothing happens. Wait…I’m hearing that actually a ton more games and big DLC updates are coming out in September. Cool. No rest for the weary. Bobby and Chase break down all the important releases for the upcoming month while we also share our thoughts o…
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