Episode 559: 2026 Half Year Review
Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel
Ben Vernel
4.8 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
It's time for our annual (AKA when we remember to do it) Half Year Review! We're going through our favourite releases of the year so far: the blockbuster smashes, the indie gems and our increasingly shameful backlog. Plus, new leaks are suggesting a wild amount of new Pokemon are coming! Is this good or bad!?
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Filthy Casuals, we are halfway through the year, plus a little bit extra, |
| 0:06.5 | and so we are doing our big half-year wrap-up. |
| 0:10.5 | What have we been enjoying? |
| 0:12.3 | What have we slept on? |
| 0:13.9 | Well, you're going to hear about all, or at least most of it, in this episode, plus. |
| 0:17.7 | Plus, apparently, there are 300 new Pokemon coming down the pipe. |
| 0:23.4 | Is that too many Pokemon? |
| 0:25.2 | Let's discuss this issue. |
| 0:28.3 | All of that and more on today's filthy casuals. |
| 0:32.3 | Music Good morning video games. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to Filthy Casuals, a podcast about video games, |
| 0:49.2 | hosted by two very kind and extremely knowledgeable boys. |
| 0:56.2 | Thank you very much for joining us. |
| 0:58.1 | My name is Tommy Dasselo. |
| 1:00.2 | With me as always a man who's... Fuck, he's loading something up on the phone, ready to go. |
| 1:03.3 | It's Ben Van Nell here. |
| 1:04.4 | I was checking the time because we are actually recording in the afternoon. |
| 1:07.5 | Yep. |
| 1:07.8 | A rare afternoon record. |
| 1:09.7 | Ooh. |
| 1:10.3 | A bit of afternoon delight for us and our listeners. |
| 1:13.1 | Yep. |
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