Episode 534: Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch 2 Edition, Big Hops
Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel
Ben Vernel
4.8 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
There's a big new Animal Crossing update out now which hopefully doesn't mean that there's another global pandemic around the corner! We're chatting about everything that's new in the update, as well as some VR related layoffs and what that means for the future of the platform, a leaked release date for Forza Horizon 6 and the great new indie 3D platformer Big Hops.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Filthy Casuals, we're discussing the future of VR, the future of the release date of Forza Horizon 6. |
| 0:07.9 | Animal Crossing New Horizons has an update, including a horny island that's been shut down. |
| 0:15.7 | And we're also talking about the great new indie platformer Big Hops, all of that and more on today's Filthy Casuals. |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning Video Games. Welcome to Filthy Casuals, a podcast about video games, |
| 0:40.2 | hosted by two very kind and extremely knowledgeable boys. |
| 0:45.4 | Thank you very much for joining us. |
| 0:47.2 | My name is Tommy Daselo and, hmm, with me, as always. |
| 0:56.0 | It's Ben Fennell here. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm so, so glad to be here, Tommy, after a minor hiccup. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.3 | We had absolutely classic shit. |
| 1:06.9 | I was talking about how good my new PC was and the Wi-Fi immediately dropped out. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, I just completely lost you. We're doing this remotely and, uh, I felt like my, uh, I felt like |
| 1:17.5 | I had a really good read and a good energy on the intro on that one too. So then coming back, |
| 1:22.2 | I was like, I don't want to try and just recreate it. I'll try and go in a bit of a different |
| 1:26.6 | direction and immediately I just went, ah, this is not as good. I'll try and go in a bit of a different direction. And immediately I just went, |
| 1:28.6 | ah, this is not as good. |
| 1:30.7 | I just, |
| 1:32.0 | certain, |
| 1:32.6 | maybe I can just splice in the take from the first go. |
| 1:36.7 | Give people a little bit of a sample. |
| 1:38.8 | Now my dog's kicking up. |
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