Every week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.
So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!
2023-05-08 20:37:48 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, Ben Hanson and Haley MacLean talk about…
- Creating the pet documentary
- Doc Lightning community update
- Defending Redfall
- Kinda Funny's Phil Spencer interview
- Tears of the Kingdom performance fears
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor thoughts
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 review
- Konami teaming up with PlayStation rumors
If you want to join the Party Chat every single week and t...
2023-05-08 18:51:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your amazing support on Patreon, we recently hit our goal of 3,400 total Patreon supporters and the reward was us creating a documentary showing off all of our pets. Since that time, we've somehow now hit 3,500 Patreon supporters. Unbelievable. We cannot thank you all enough for your continued support, and please remember that it's important to find a tier that's sustainable for you. That's the only way this whole thing works, so feel free to drop down whenever you need to.
So...
2023-05-08 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we record our Patreon-exclusive podcast called Party Chat and we need your input! You can literally join the group discussion by clicking on the Stage in MinnMax’s Discord channel called MinnMax Party Chat. Raise your hand (there’s a button for that) whenever you want to talk and we’ll rotate everybody around. Using your phone as the mic is totally fine, there’s no video camera component for you. Otherwise, you can ask a question in the live chat (it help...
2023-05-08 15:16:52 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined the studio by Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund and Bryan Vore to unpack Marvel's big new film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 from writer and director James Gunn. They talk about how the trilogy wraps up, the journey of Rocket Raccoon, Chris Pratt's Star-Lord, and a whole lot more. Oh, and they can't help themselves and also talk about spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 3...
2023-05-06 16:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For everybody in the Minneapolis area, we're hosting another community meetup on Friday, June 2nd at 8pm Central. This time we're meeting at Wisdom Gaming Studios, located in the Mall of America On Level 4 - East. They're a venue for eSports, so naturally we'll be playing some Smash Ultimate at the event as well. No need to bring GameCube/Switch controllers though. 2023-05-05 17:12:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski to talk about the disappointing release of Arkane Studios' open-world vampire game Redfall before diving into some great games we've been playing like Cassette Beasts, Roots of Pacha, Bayonetta Origins, and Octopath Traveler 2. Kelsey also raves about the new DLC for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 called Future Redeemed and how well it ties together the three RPGs from Mon...
2023-05-03 20:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've listened to The MinnMax Show, you know that Janet Garcia and Jeff Marchiafava often have to defend their love of the Horizon franchise. In this big spoilercast for the new DLC called Burning Shores, they can finally be free in a sanctuary designed for gushing about Guerrilla Games' RPGs. Nothing can interrupt them. It's impossible. In this discussion they talk about what the Burning Shores ...
2023-05-02 20:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...
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2023-05-02 19:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostEvery week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.
So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!
2023-05-01 20:36:51 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, we talk about…
- Our month-long documentary-focused community event called Doc Lightning
- Yakuza: Like A Dragon
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor performance issues and reviews
- Opening up the PO Box mailbag
If you want to join the Party Chat every single week and talk to us about what you’ve been playing, watching, or ask any question under the sun, jump up to the MinnMax Council tier! We’d love to hear ...
2023-05-01 18:47:19 +0000 UTC View Post
You have the tools right now to create a short documentary, so why don't you try? Introducing our new community event for the month of May: Doc Lightning! We're encouraging the entire MinnMax community to create a short documentary and we'll all watch them together at the end of the month. Here's why it'll be a piece of cake...
- We want first-timers, no expertise or experience...
2023-05-01 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we record our Patreon-exclusive podcast called Party Chat and we need your input! You can literally join the group discussion by clicking on the Stage in MinnMax’s Discord channel called MinnMax Party Chat. Raise your hand (there’s a button for that) whenever you want to talk and we’ll rotate everybody around. Using your phone as the mic is totally fine, there’s no video camera component for you. Otherwise, you can ask a question in the live chat (it help...
2023-05-01 14:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Leo Vader break down the most interesting things we learned about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom from new previews, then we have a roundtable review discussion about Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, touch on Horizon's Burning Shores DLC, before diving into the great indie games Shadows of Doubt, Blind Drive, and Mr. Sun's Hatbox. Then we're joined by the bigge...
2023-04-26 23:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Jacob Geller, and special guest Suriel Vazquez. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we...
2023-04-25 18:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostEvery week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.
So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!
2023-04-24 19:09:39 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, Ben Hanson and community manager Haley MacLean talk about…
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and planning for The Deepest Dive
- Why Ben Hanson dislikes actors
- Teasing announcements for May
- How they'd tackle a Super Smash Bros. movie
- Game lore theories
- Game Freak's Pulseman
If you want to join the Party Chat every single week and talk to us about what you’ve been playing, ...
2023-04-24 18:14:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we record our Patreon-exclusive podcast called Party Chat and we need your input! You can literally join the group discussion by clicking on the Stage in MinnMax’s Discord channel called MinnMax Party Chat. Raise your hand (there’s a button for that) whenever you want to talk and we’ll rotate everybody around. Using your phone as the mic is totally fine, there’s no video camera component for you. Otherwise, you can ask a question in the live chat (it help...
2023-04-24 14:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Leo Vader defend the zombie-slaying fun to be head in Dead Island 2, talk about the challenges of an RTS on console with Minecraft Legends, and talk about the promising gameplay of Disney Speedstorm. Then Sarah Podzorski joins the show as we check in on the horror-themed fishing game Dredge, the biggest reveals from Nintendo Indie World, and SEGA's April Fool's Day game tha...
2023-04-19 21:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...
- D...
2023-04-18 19:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostEvery week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.
So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!
2023-04-17 20:02:23 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, Ben Hanson is joined by MinnMax's community manager Haley MacLean (and Game Informer's Alex Van Aken for a bit) to talk about…
- Wireless mic technology
- Video quality versus speed
- Planning Trivia Tower
- Dredge
- Dead By Daylight
- Why Tears of the Kingdom might be a prequel to Breath of the Wild
- Toxic online fandoms/reaction streams
- Bowser's Peaches song
If you want to jo...
2023-04-17 18:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
In this MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson talks to Abbie Heppe about the highs and lows from her incredible career in the game industry. Abbie started in games press at outlets like G4 before becoming a crucial component to the origins and growth of Respawn Entertainment and Titanfall, and then she was the Communications Head and Director of Live Service for Dreams at Media Molecule. They talk about the ...
2023-04-17 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we record our Patreon-exclusive podcast called Party Chat and we need your input! You can literally join the group discussion by clicking on the Stage in MinnMax’s Discord channel called MinnMax Party Chat. Raise your hand (there’s a button for that) whenever you want to talk and we’ll rotate everybody around. Using your phone as the mic is totally fine, there’s no video camera component for you. Otherwise, you can ask a question in the live chat (it help...
2023-04-17 13:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Nextlander's Brad Shoemaker is joining us this Monday for the next episode of Trivia Tower, and the Nextlander community is going up against all of MinnMax. The competition is happening on Monday, April 17th at 6pm Pacific/8pm Central/9pm Eastern! The competition takes place in MinnMax's Discord, which you have access to if you're a Patreon supp...
2023-04-14 17:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, California ended weeks ago but we just can't stop thinking about it! In this second bonus discussion (the first is in this bonus podcast feed with Haley MacLean) Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller to go through more highlights from game developer panels at GDC. We share insight from the development of Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarok, Thi...
2023-04-14 16:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Kyle Hilliard, and Jacob Geller unpack the details and secrets of the incredible new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Then Janet Garcia joins the show and we check in and share our full thoughts on the open-world game Tchia. Kyle and Ben got to see an extended preview for Immortals of Aveum, the new first-person magic game from Ascendant Studios and the creative director of Dead Space. Oh and then ...
2023-04-13 16:23:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, and special guest Steven Spohn from AbleGamers. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out...
2023-04-11 21:06:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the grand finale of The Deepest Dive on Resident Evil 4 Remake from MinnMax. In the third episode of our game club series, Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, Jeff Marchiafava, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by special guest Jacob Geller to break down Chapters 12-16. They talk about the island, Leon's fear of helicopters, what's up with Saddler, the changes to the Salazar boss fight, and what they ...
2023-04-11 18:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostEvery week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.
So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!
2023-04-10 19:10:49 +0000 UTC
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