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Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

FYI: Due to an embargo, we can't post the podcast until Friday this week. So even for folks at the Backstage Pass tier, we'll be sharing the unedited version of the podcast on that Friday.

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and Haley MacLean. 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 a...

Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!

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!

2023-03-13 19:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Party Chat - The Oscars Recap, GDC Planning, Podcasts Vs. Twitch

On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, we talk about…

- Scheduling MinnMax content

- Why streaming on Twitch is more valuable than creating podcasts

- The Oscars recap

- Planning for GDC

- The Wii U/3DS games to get before they go offline

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 he...

Max Spoilers - The Last Of Us Season Finale

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Bryan Vore, and Ross Pfund unpack and spoil the final episode for Season 1 of The Last of Us on HBO. We talk about how it compares to the 2013 video game from Naughty Dog, our thoughts on the overall season, and Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey's amazing depictions of Joel and Ellie.

You can watch and share the video version here - 2023-03-13 15:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Join MinnMax’s Party Chat At 12pm Central!

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...

New Patreon Goal! Send Sarah And Leo To Super Nintendo World To Make A Travelogue!

Hello everybody, we hope you've enjoyed MinnMax's content lately. We've got an exciting year ahead. Because of your support, we're sending Leo Vader and Sarah Podzorski to E3 in June. We could use a little help going above and beyond, however.

We have a new financial goal on Patreon, where if we hit a total of $18,600 before the end of March we'll have Sarah and Leo join forces...

Compete In Trivia Tower This Sunday, March 12th At 2pm Central! (A Europe-Friendly Time!)

Compete in game trivia this Sunday, March 12th at 2pm Central to win game codes for Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, and even an A30 headset from Astro Gaming. For this episode, we're joined by Dazz and Greg from the popular YouTube channel Did You Know Gaming. If you answer a question correctly, you move on to the next floor of the tower. The last person standing wins t...

The MinnMax Show - Our Favorite Demos Of All Time

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava to reminisce about our favorite demos and demo discs of all time. Let us know your favorites in the comments. Then we unpack some great games with generous demos like Team Ninja's Sekiro-inspired Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Humanity from Enhance Games, and Octopath Traveler 2. Then we also talk about the new Dead Cells DLC that's Castlevania-themed and JeffM falling...

The Deepest Dive - Like A Dragon: Ishin! (Chapters 5-9)

MinnMax's Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and Sarah Podzorski are joined by Michael Higham once again to create the best, most thorough discussion on the internet about Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's Like A Dragon: Ishin. In this discussion, we cover chapters 5-9 so there are full spoilers for everything in chapters 5-9. We'll be back at the end of March for the final episode where we're covering everything else th...

Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!

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!

2023-03-06 20:18:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Party Chat - Climbing Podcast Charts, Survivor Premiere, Interviewing Mortal Kombat's Ed Boon

On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, we talk about…

- The Tetris movie

- MinnMax's book club

- Climbing the podcast charts

- The Celebration of PsychOdyssey

- Favorite documentaries

- Survivor's season premiere

- Interviewing Mortal Kombat's Ed Boon

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 Counci...

MinnMax Interview - ​​Tchia's Director Is More Inspired By GTA Than Wind Waker

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Phil Crifo, the game director of the upcoming open-world adventure Tchia. In this interview we talk about the studio Awaceb, the full development history of Tchia, and why it's inspired more by the Grand Theft Auto series than The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. The game releases on Epic Game Store and PlayStation on March 21st, 2023.

Watch and share the video versi...

Part 2 Of The Deepest Dive Is Coming Up, Submit Your Thoughts On Like A Dragon: Ishin!

It's time to submit your comment on the middle chapters of Like A Dragon: Ishin for The Deepest Dive! For this discussion, we're covering everything in the game from Chapter 5-Chapter 9. Please don't spoil anything after that point!

We're trying something different with The Deepest Dive on Like A Dragon: Ishin! Instead of submitting a comment below, you're goin...

Join MinnMax’s Party Chat At 12pm Central!

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...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

Wait, this post is being sent out on a Sunday? What is happening to space and time?!? So due to some travel, we're recording this week's episode of The MinnMax Show on Monday this week but still releasing it at the standard times.

This 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 ...

MinnMax Interview - Tim Schafer’s Ultimate Push For Transparency With PsychOdyssey

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews the head of Double Fine Tim Schafer about the new release of Double Fine PsychOdyssey, the 32-part documentary about the development of Psychonauts 2. We talk about how and why he felt it was so important for 2 Player Productions to create an honest look at every aspect of game development and what it was like for him to watch the finished documentary. This interview i...

Max Spoilers - Double Fine PsychOdyssey

As the third feature for our week-long Celebration of Double Fine PsychOdyssey, MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by YouTube superstar Jacob Geller and HyperDot developer Charles McGregor to share our full thoughts on the new documentary from 2 Player Productions. We talk about Tim Schafer, Zak McClendon, and the rest of the development team for Psychonauts 2 and how they're portrayed in the documentary...

The MinnMax Show - Final Fantasy XVI, Minish Cap, Forbidden West Redemption

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! Ben Hanson is joined by Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava to unpack everything we learned about Final Fantasy XVI this week, have a mini-Deepest Dive on The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap for the GameBoy Advance, and then JeffM passionately explains why most of us were dead wrong about Horizon Forbidden West.

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The Deepest Dive - Like A Dragon: Ishin! (Chapters Prologue-4)

Welcome to The Deepest Dive on Like A Dragon: Ishin! MinnMax's Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and Sarah Podzorski are joined by Yakuza superfan Michael Higham in this three-part game club discussion about Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's Like A Dragon: Ishin. In this discussion, we cover the prologue and everything up through Chapter 4. We're creating the best, most thorough discussion about Like A Dragon: Ishin on ...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This 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 a great prize for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.

On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...

- Fina...

Industry Roundtable - What PsychOdyssey Taught Us About Game Development

MinnMax's Ben Hanson hosts a game industry panel discussion unpacking the incredible new documentary called Double Fine PsychOdyssey from 2 Player Productions. He's joined by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Popagenda's PR and Marketing guru Jurge Cruz-Alvarez, and the creator of Wandersong and Chicory: A Colorful Tale Greg Lobanov to talk about transparency in game development, what we learned seeing Mic...

Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!

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!

2023-02-27 21:09:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Party Chat - Managing MinnMax's Content Output, The Menu Review, Pokémon Sleep

On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, we talk about…

- Marvel's Midnight Suns

- Managing MinnMax's workloads/content output

- Mr. Beast...

- Reviewing The Menu

- Pokémon Sleep

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 Discord,...

MinnMax Interview - Meet The Team Behind Double Fine PsychOdyssey

If you've listened to The MinnMax Show recently, you know that Ben Hanson is consumed by the new documentary showing the development of Psychonauts 2 called Double Fine PsychOdyssey. So we're officially kicking off The Celebration Of Double Fine PsychOdyssey here at MinnMax with a week of content highlighting the documentary. We have a game industry roundtable discussion coming up on...

Join MinnMax’s Party Chat At 12pm Central!

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...

Submit Your Thoughts On Like A Dragon: Ishin For The Deepest Dive!

It's time to submit your comment on the opening chapters of Like A Dragon: Ishin for The Deepest Dive! For the first discussion, we're covering everything in the game up through Chapter 4. Please don't spoil anything after that point!

We're trying something different with The Deepest Dive on Like A Dragon: Ishin! Instead of submitting a comment below, you're go...

Vote For The Most Interesting Game In The Game Championship - Part 3

Did you know that if you're a $50 supporter of MinnMax (even just for one month), you can choose any game for us to officially declare you the champion of on The MinnMax Show podcast and in the description for every video and podcast? Your name and favorite game are all over the place!

We've rounded up the last four months of games chosen by Game Champions and now you get to choose which game we create a bonus piece of content about. We'll reach out and coordinate and d...

The MinnMax Show - Sony's New Reveals, Resident Evil 4, Suicide Squad Gameplay

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader, Sarah Podzorski, and Kyle Hilliard to unpack all of the news from Sony's State of Play, talk about playing Resident Evil Village and Gran Turismo 7 in VR, and lavish unexpected praise on Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. Then we answer wonderful questions from the community submitted on Patreon.

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Vote For The Most Interesting Game In The Game Championship - Part 2

Did you know that if you're a $50 supporter of MinnMax (even just for one month), you can choose any game for us to officially declare you the champion of on The MinnMax Show podcast and in the description for every video and podcast? Your name and favorite game are all over the place!

We've rounded up the last four months of games chosen by Game Champions and now you get to choose which game we create a bonus piece of content about. We'll reach out and coordinate and d...

Vote For The Most Interesting Game In The Game Championship!

Did you know that if you're a $50 supporter of MinnMax (even just for one month), you can choose any game for us to officially declare you the champion of on The MinnMax Show podcast and in the description for every video and podcast? Your name and favorite game are all over the place!

We've rounded up the last four months of games chosen by Game Champions and now you get to choose which game we create a bonus piece of content about. We'll reach out and coordinate and d...