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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's October, and that means it’s time for our monthly preview breaking down all the new releases. Bobby’s flexing his powers in Control Resonant while Chase gets hit with a shot of nostalgia courtesy of Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Edition Remastered. 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4yxzPEY

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Who’s up for a little Walk n’ Talk? The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is out, and as Chase’s most anticipated game of the year, he unsurprisingly has a lot to say. But Bobby has also dipped his toe into this entry of the series, so we get to have a full conversation about it! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/3VyBY4x

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 There is a new Fire Emblem game out, and Chase has written a short novel. You have been warned. The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Hey we’re Big Walking here! With our Casual Friend @giggy.bsky.social! The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This Week on The Casual Hour… Bobby and Chase go back to school, and talk about the games we played in the classrooms of our youth. From specific Oregon Trail editions to flash games in computer labs, we reminisce about the games that made school fun. 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4h2MTMs

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 We’ve been out of school for a long time, but we still remember the games that educated us! A special look back deep dive plus some new games too! The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After weeks of big talk’n its finally time for some Big Walk’n! We are kicking off a new unnamed series playing through Big Walk! Tune in each week as we (and some casual friends) take a big o walk! Casual Monday is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We're back from our week off with a two-hour catch-up, kicking things off with their verdict on Star Wars Zero Company). Then its the big Switch 2 Directs before diving into a September release calendar so packed they barely have time to breathe. 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/46l4dpB

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 As if there were not enough games coming out in September to talk about, Chase decided he actually wanted to talk about video games. Buckle up, it's going to be a long one… The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’re back for round two of the Zelda 40th anniversary tier list, sorting twenty more items from the Biggoron's (or is it Big O’ Ron?) Sword to the Sheikah Slate, with Chase fighting Bobby on the Master Sword being the top tier S item... 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4gT5Nnt

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 We are not saying we are the reason there is a TLOZ 40th Anniversary Direct tomorrow, but we are saying Nintendo has been pretty quiet since last week's episode… The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Did you forget it’s Zelda’s 40th birthday this year? So did Nintendo! But Bobby didn’t, which is why we’re putting 40 classic Zelda items on a tier list. Bottles, bombs, boots and more. And this is just part 1 on this edition of The Casual Hour! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4gqIPoM

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Bobby has cooked up a special TLOZ 40th Anniversary Deep Dive (since Nintendo wont!) The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Snack talk and gaming in this whatcha been playin’ episode. Bobby’s fixing things up in ReStory, defending them in Omen and ripping them apart in Tears of Metal, all while Chase revisits an old friend in Fire Emblem: Awakening! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4xRPoGG

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 For a month that was supposed to be about our backlog, we somehow keep playing new games. Well, at least half of us! The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Bobby is sick in a chill way tonight… The Casual Hour is playing Restory! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We gott Big Walk fever, and we just gotta let it out. See why we think this game has real GOTY potential. Plus, Bobby’s tinkering away on virtual devices in ReStory while tinkering on real devices with Pokemon’s Gen1Recomp! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/3S4Guqj

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Big Walk into my repair shop The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 you're going to need a bigger walk Taking a Big Walk right now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The month of August brings some exciting releases, including the very cool looking Big Walk, as well as an XCOM-style game in a galaxy far, far away — Star Wars: Zero Company. And there are a few other games that are filling out the month nicely! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/45IXc1t

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Pssst… New game time. The Casual Hour is happening now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Time for some happy little trees. The Casual Hour is playing Splatoon Raiders! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We've both been splatting it up in Splatoon Raiders, but we’ve got a lot of other games to talk about before that. Bobby’s back on his Palworld bullshit. Chase is playing a bunch of Square games, but not the ones he’s supposed to be playing. 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4wxfqie

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Someone said Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts meets Vampire Survivor and we said: Hell yeah. The Casual Hour is playing Terratech Legion now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

10 years ago, The Casual Hour was born. In 2016 we had our first GOTY show. 10 years is a long time, and opinions change. Do we still think our games of 2016 hold up? We give ourselves a do-over and see what our games of 2016 are…in 2026. 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4f3CLSw

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Welcome to The Casual Hour, a podcast ostensibly about video games. Hosted by Bobby Pease and Chase Koeneke, The Casual Hour is a gaming channel where we chill out, mess around and, sometimes, even…

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What's harder to believe: That we have been doing this for 10 years now or that our 2016 GOTY lists still hold up? Let’s take a look back to the first ever Casual Hour GOTY with complete creative control to redo our prior sins Live now! twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The games industry continues to burn around us! Bobby polished off Mina the Hollower before getting down to the nuts and bolts of TerraTech Legion. And Chase hit the links in Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots. Is it up to par or stuck in the rough? 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4wBfixZ

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Despite the best efforts of the industry, we are talking about games! Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 We’ve got some voidlings to bind to. It’s pretty weird, wanna see? Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's hot, the game industry is crumbling, and yet, there are still cool releases coming out all the time. We jump into the most interesting games in the month of July, as well as chat about the new Star Fox and an old Fire Emblem Warriors game. 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4eN9fPm

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Let's talk about all those July games shall we? Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 We're not gonna lie to you. This is gonna get kinda weird... 2 Fights In 2 Tight Spaces. We're live with @fightsgame.bsky.social! Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s been a few months since Bobby and Chase have gotten their AYN Thor consoles. Do we still like them? Have they changed our gaming habits? And why do we think we’re living in a golden age of video game emulation? 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/3SyiPOK

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 We’ve been playing video games and we think you should too! Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Playing Steam Next Fest demos > Playing games in your backlog Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Over 1000 video games were shown during this year’s Summer Game Fest extravaganza, and Bobby and Chase are here to cover them all (ok, maybe a tiny subset.) What grabbed our attention and has us excited for the future of gaming? 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4owWKMA

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We preview a mostly thin month of June video game releases (though that could change). In the meantime, we still have plenty to talk about, like Bobby digging into Mina the Hollower and Chase hacking his way through Fire Emblem: Life of Seiros! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4usHjq8

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 New Month. New Games. Same Backlog. Our June Games Preview is happening now! Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A holiday weekend means we’ve been gaming. Bobby’s got a license to kill in 007 First Light while Chase goes back to Super Robot Wars Y. We also pour one out for Destiny 2. Are we really going to go back to Destiny to see it? 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4dEvgAS

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 It’s a whatcha been playing episode tonight, and we’ve been playing a lot! Well Bobby has. Chase? Who knows, come find out! Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We saw those meme “get to know me” grids going around on social media, but their categories were lame, so Chase made custom grids for us to talk about some games that might be a bit of a surprise for each other! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4dqdDEF

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 Subnautica 2! Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We’ve got a full episode of whatcha been playing to get through as Bobby and Chase attack new titles and old. Bobby found his groove with Mixtape while Chase dives into his new AYN Thor, going back to an old favorite in Burnout 3: Takedown! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4wBDmSc

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 We have too many games to talk about, and that includes Chase? Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In addition to May flowers, this month also is proving to be very busy in the gaming world. We break down all the most interesting new releases (plus what’s coming to Early Access. 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/3QWYQsi

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 We’re doing a barrel roll into all the new games coming out this May. Come feed your backlog with us! Live now: 👉 twitch.tv/thecasualhour 👉 youtube.com/thecasualhour

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We’re all about cards this week on The Casual Hour as Bobby gets deep into the new Vampire Crawlers while Chase starts another romhack of the Pokemon Trading Card Game. We also dig into the recent missteps and mea culpas from Xbox and PlayStation! 🎧Listen: bit.ly/49dAOjv 📺Watch: bit.ly/4te2VG3

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The Casual Hour @thecasualhour.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨 We’re going LIVE! 🚨 After dodging storms on Monday night (again) we are hopefully back to talking games and Lunchables. See you there! Live now: twitch.tv/thecasualhour youtube.com/thecasualhour

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