In the biggest episode of Max Spoilers yet, MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by community manager Haley MacLean, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, Ross Pfund, Bryan Vore, and Janet Garcia to unpack The Super Mario Bros. Movie in a full spoilercast. We share our reviews, thoughts on the best jokes, and debate what the sequel could look like for the collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination.
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2023-04-10 18:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, we talk about…
- Tim Rogers' YouTube channel
- Star Wars' new movies
- YouTube and Patreon analytics
- The Deepest Dive bonus episodes
- Tron
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 from you. Party Chat is recorded each week in the Disco...
2023-04-10 18:08:26 +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...
2023-04-10 14:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that we've come to the end of the road, we just can't let go. It's unnatural, we need your final thoughts on Resident Evil 4. We're covering Chapters 12-16 in this final discussion. You can also submit your thoughts on the new Mercenaries mode.
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2023-04-09 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this interview, MinnMax's Ben Hanson talks to Bret Robbins about his amazing career in the game industry and how it has all fueled the founding of Ascendant Studios to work on the new first-person magic action game called Immortals of Aveum launching in 2023. Robbins worked on Gex at Crystal Dynamics, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King while at EA, he was the creative director for the origi...
2023-04-07 16:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's special episode, Ben Hanson is joined by the co-director of the Video Game History Foundation Kelsey Lewin and Digital Eclipse's Editorial Director Chris Kohler to try to better understand Shigeru Miyamoto. This isn't an interview with the man, unfortunately. We talk about our experiences interacting with the creator of Donkey Kong, Mario, and The Legend of Zelda and share insightful quotes from interviews he's done throughout the decades.
<... 2023-04-05 20:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, and special returning guest Chris Kohler from Digital Eclipse. 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 pr...
2023-04-04 19:29:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to MinnMax's three-part game club discussion on Capcom's remake of Resident Evil 4! In this discussion, Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, and Sarah Podzorski dive in deep and discuss chapters 7-11 of the game, which mainly consists of The Castle. They don't spoil anything beyond Chapter 11. They talk about Salazar's new look, how Luis is different from the original, those damn...
2023-04-04 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!
2023-04-03 21:08:35 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, we talk about…
- How to structure a hypothetical Deepest Dive for Tears of the Kingdom
- Discussing gating The Deepest Dive as a Patreon-exclusive
- Would you be okay with a sponsored episode of Trivia Tower
- Ranking the best Final Fantasy soundtracks, most underrated song
- Summer Game Fest and how games will get the spotlight
- Live reaction to DC's Blue Beetle trailer
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2023-04-03 18:12:25 +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...
2023-04-03 13:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for The Deepest Dive on Resident Evil 4 Remake, everybody! We're collecting your thoughts on the game up through Chapter 11, please don't spoil anything beyond that point.
Please do not submit more than one comment and keep your single comment to under 600 characters long. We're colle...
2023-04-02 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Janet Garcia to unpack all of the details from Nintendo's big reveal of gameplay for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Janet shares her favorite indie games from PAX East, we talk about the new gameplay for Final Fantasy XVI from PAX, and we run down some more indie games we've been playing and enjoying like the Castlevania-inspired 9 Years of Shadows and Ter...
2023-03-29 21:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to tackle the ending for Like A Dragon: Ishin! MinnMax's Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and Sarah Podzorski are once again joined by Michael Higham to finish off the best, most thorough discussion on the internet about Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's Like A Dragon: Ishin. In this discussion, they cover everything from Chapter 10 through the ending. This includes all of the fun sidequests as well. Huge tha...
2023-03-29 18:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and welcome to The Deepest Dive on Resident Evil 4 Remake, thank you for unlocking this podcast version and for directly supporting the game club format! In our first discussion, Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, and Sarah Podzorski share their full thoughts on Chapters 1-6 in Capcom's loving remake of the survival horror classic. They don't spoil anything beyond Chapter 6. They talk...
2023-03-28 18:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Janet Garcia. 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...
<... 2023-03-28 17:40:00 +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!
2023-03-27 18:42:18 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, we talk about…
- GDC and what we can do better next year
- PAX East highlights
- Multiversus' weird future
- Visiting Tokyo
- Haley MacLean on podcasts
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 from you. Party Chat is recorded each week in...
2023-03-27 18:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't be alarmed: We technically have two Deepest Dives running at the same time! We're recording the grand finale for The Deepest Dive on Like A Dragon: Ishin on Tuesday evening and we need your final thoughts!
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2023-03-27 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody, Ben Hanson here! Thanks to your support on Patreon, MinnMax was able to attend the Game Developer's Conference last week in San Francisco, California. We thought it was only fair to let you join us on the week-long adventure by recording a travelogue video so you can see what the event is like behind the scenes. There's a whole lot of meeting people, eating, and laughing. The video is filled with cameos from folks around the game industry, be sure to leave a comment below if ...
2023-03-27 15:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody, Ben Hanson here! Thanks to your support on Patreon, MinnMax was able to attend the Game Developer's Conference last week in San Francisco, California. We thought it was only fair to let you join us on the week-long adventure by recording a travelogue video so you can see what the event is like behind the scenes. There's a whole lot of meeting people, eating, and laughing. The video is filled with cameos from folks around the game industry, be sure to leave a comment below if ...
2023-03-27 15:16:00 +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...
2023-03-27 14:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for The Deepest Dive on Resident Evil 4 Remake, everybody! We're collecting your thoughts on the game up through Chapter 6, please don't spoil anything beyond that point.
Just like with Like A Dragon: Ishin, we're collecting your comments in 2023-03-26 14:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your support on Patreon here, I've spent all week at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, California. On this bonus podcast just for you, MinnMax's community manager Haley MacLean (on the right in the picture) and I (Ben Hanson) unpack everything we learned attending panels designed by and for game developers. The panels aren't online at this point, so this is a great place to ...
2023-03-24 19:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this special episode recorded in San Francisco, California during the Game Developer's Conference for 2023, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Imran Khan, and The Indie Informer's Jill Grodt. We talk about what GDC is like this year, trends amongst game developers, the best indies of the show, and more. Then we talk about playing the new open-world game Tchia, the horror fishing game Dredge, and Kelsey unpacks everything horrifying about t...
2023-03-23 16:54:02 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson crosses the streams for a video preview with Easy Allies' Daniel Bloodworth to talk about playing the first several hours of LEGO 2K Drive from developer Visual Concepts. 2K paid for Ben Hanson's travel out to Novato, California to attend a preview event for the upcoming open-world game. They talk about ...
2023-03-23 13:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Help us create the best, most thorough discussion about Resident Evil 4 Remake on the internet by joining The Deepest Dive! MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava are breaking the game up into three sections for a massive game club fueled by your comments. The Deepest Dive will be airing on YouTube and in the bonus podcast feed over the next three weeks, with new episodes dropping on Tuesdays. Let us know if you have any questions about how it all works! 2023-03-21 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
2023-03-20 17:03:44 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson sets up a discussion between the game director for Obsidian's Pentiment Josh Sawyer and Immortality's director Sam Barlow, two of 2022's critical darlings. The two developers talk about the similarities between their two games, the key ingredients for a compelling murder mystery, and what they want to work on in the future.
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2023-03-20 16:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast, we're sorry for the delayed post this week. Hopefully it's worth your while though since Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, and Jacob Geller can talk all about the great remake of Resident Evil 4! We also talk about playing the beta for Exoprimal, Jacob Geller's weird fascination with Wanted Dead, and Leo highlights a game that's woefully under everybody's radar. Then we're joined by MinnMax's new community manager Haley MacLean to answer wonderful questions subm...
2023-03-17 12:59:27 +0000 UTC View Post