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Compete In Trivia Tower This Monday, 8pm Central To Win Prizes!

We've got an exciting episode of Trivia Tower coming up this Monday, November 28th at 6pm Pacific/8pm Central/9pm Easter as we're taking on the entire Easy allies community! For this grand event, we'll be joined by Easy Allies' Isla Hinck as cohost!

So if you're a Patreon supporter for MinnMax, you're on Team MinnMax. We're sharing a temporary invite link with all...

100 Reasons to Be Thankful For Gaming In 2022

Every Thanksgiving, MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafva, and Jeff Cork get together to politely give thanks to the greatest games of 2022 by telling 100 mediocre jokes about them. We apologize for these jokes ahead of time. Special thanks to everybody who submitted jokes in that previous Patreon post, they were all great and we're sorry we didn't get to all of them!

Also, a sincere...

The MinnMax Show - Marvel's Midnight Suns, Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Review, Fallout 76?

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On today's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski to share our thoughts on Pokémon Scarlet And Violet and its technical limitations on the Nintendo Switch. Then Leo Vader and Jacob Geller join the show and we talk about the opening hours to Marvel's Midnight Suns from Firaxis and Sarah tells us all about Tactics Ogre: Reborn. Oh, and Leo Vader explains why he's fallen back in love with Fallout ...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

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

On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about... 2022-11-22 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

The Deepest Dive - God Of War Ragnarok Part 2

We're continuing our journey of creating the best, most thorough discussion about God of War Ragnarok with The Deepest Dive. This discussion covers everything in the game from the end of the quest "Old Friends" up through "Forging Destinies". We talk about Angrboda's reveal, the evolution of Kratos, why Odin is so unnerving, and try to predict the ending. Once again MinnMax's Ben Han...

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! 2022-11-21 19:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Party Chat - Andor, Scarlet/Violet Impressions, The Deepest Dive On The Deepest Dive

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

- Changing up The Deepest Dive?

- Warzone 2.0

- Star Wars' Andor

- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

- Clerks 3

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, there’s a Stage...

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 God Of War Ragnarok's Middle Chunk For The Deepest Dive!

Hello everybody! Here we go, it's time to submit your comment on the middle section of God of War Ragnarok! For this discussion, we're covering everything in the game from the end of  the quest called "Old Friends" to the end of the quest "Forging Destines". We realize this is a big section, so feel free to just submit a comment based on what you were able to ge...

Submit Your Jokes About Gaming In 2022 For Our Thanksgiving Tradition

Thanksgiving in the United States is a time for family traditions, so we're back yet again with another attempt to write over 100 reasons to be thankful for gaming this year. Jeff Cork, Leo Vader, Ben Hanson, and Jeff Marchiafava will be sharing 20 reasons they're thankful... which really just means a bunch of mediocre jokes they wrote about video games in 2022.

We need your help to really brin...

The Deepest Dive - God Of War Ragnarok Part 1

Welcome to The Deepest Dive on God of War Ragnarok! This is it, folks. Thanks to your help, we're starting our adventure and creating the best, most thorough discussion about the game on the internet. The first discussion covers everything in the new PlayStation game up until you complete the quest "Old Friends", which is roughly 7 hours into the game. We talk about the game's opening hours, the evol...

The MinnMax Show - 2022’s Game Of The Year Debate: The Prologue

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Sarah Podzorski, and Leo Vader to set the stage for our 2022 Game of the Year debate by suggesting games other folks should check out. Then we talk about the incredible historical work done with the Atari 50 collection, Obsidian's bold take with Pentiment, and why Kyle loves Pentiment. Then we're joined by generous Extra Life donor CalamityNolan from the community ...

Share Your Thoughts Here for CrossFade’s Low Retrospective

We were just talking about the Duluth, MN-based indie rock band Low on CrossFade days before the passing of co-founder/drummer/vocalist Mimi Parker in early November. Since Matt is such a big fan of Low and Jason doesn’t know their music at all, our next episode of CrossFade will be a short retrospective on the group and Mimi’s contributions to it.

Matt put together a Spotify playlist of Low’s music for our discussion, and you can listen along at this link: 2022-11-16 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

We Raised Over $53,000 For Charity During Extra Life, Thank You!!

We cannot thank you all enough for making this year's Extra Life stream such a success. Together we raised over $53,000 for Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota and had a lot of fun doing it. To everybody who tuned in and donated any amount: Thank you! To everybody who bid on a big auction item: THANK YOU! If you won a charity auction, I'm planning on shipping out your priz...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, and Extra Life donor CalamityNolan. 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, this week it's the vinyl soundtrack to Sonic Colors! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.

On...

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! 2022-11-14 21:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Party Chat - Game Of The Year Nominations, Extra Life Recap

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

- The Game Awards' Game of the Year nominations

- Extra Life 2022 recap

- MinnMax's reviews

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, there’s a Stage called MinnMax Party Chat...

Submit A Question For Tabletop Game Night!

Hey folks, Jeff M here again! We’ll be streaming another Tabletop Game Night podcast tomorrow evening at 7:30pm Central on Twitch, which means it’s time for you to write in with any board-game-related questions you’re dying to have answered! This episode I’ll be joined by Leo “I eat D20s for breakfast” Vader, so feel free to gear your questions towards him as well. This episode will be a straightforward round-up of recommendations for games we’ve played recently, so feel free to...

Submit Your Thoughts On God Of War Ragnarok For The Deepest Dive!

It's time to submit your comment on the opening of God of War Ragnarok! For the first discussion, we're covering everything in the game up until complete the quest called "Old Friends". It's roughly six hours in. Please don't spoil anything after that point in the comments!

Submit one comment below and please get specific. Don't write a long review, please ...