For Kyle Bosman's final New Show Plus of his guest cohortship, he gathers MinnMax's Janet Garcia, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava and extracts their most divisive opinions to be looked back on one year from today. Will they be remembered with scorn or pride? Only time will tell.
New Show Plus is available every week over on YouTube, with only the conversation-focused shows like this making it t...
2025-07-30 16:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! Due to Ben traveling for a preview event, the podcast will be recorded live on YouTube this Thursday at 3pm Central. So there won't be early access on Wednesday, thanks for your patience!
It's a busy time here at MinnMax, with our community meetup happening at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis on Saturday, August 9th from 12-5 and a whole lot more. Here's a couple of recent highlig...
2025-07-29 21:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Leo Vader for a grab bag of big fun topics, including...
Leo's newest marriage
wedding planning
Sony suing Tencent for their suspiciously Horizon-like MMO (starts at 28:51)
Leo finally getting into Death Stranding (starts at 46:10)
Here’s a link to the video version of this episode!
Thank...
2025-07-29 00:33:56 +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! It's Kyle Bosman's last week as a ...
2025-07-28 19:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Jacob Geller, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman pile in to unpack our thoughts on Donkey Kong Bananza for the Nintendo Switch 2. Then we talk about Shadow Labyrinth, the new dark and atmospheric Pac-Man metroidvania from Bandai Namco and how to keep arcade franchises around in 2025. After that, we talk about the great new game that's Scrabble meets Balatro called Word Play from Mark Brown at Game Maker's Toolkit! Af...
2025-07-24 01:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This week for New Show Plus, MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Leo Vader transform into professors along with guest cohort Kyle Bosman and assign letter grades to the game industry's biggest publishers... and Game Mill Entertainment. How does Nintendo grade versus Capcom? Where is Ubisoft at in 2025?
Win Donkey Kong Bananza, Xenoblade Chronicles X, or Squeakross! Subscribe to The MinnMax Show and review...
2025-07-23 16:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Bosman, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Kelsey Lewin, and Jeff Marchiafava. 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.
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2025-07-22 19:27:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Sarah Podzorski to unload about their obsession with horse girl racing gacha Uma Musume Pretty Derby. Topics include...
its sudden popularity boom
game strategies
the real life horses that inspired the characters
season 1 of the anime
preconceptions of anime girl media
how it helped Haley quit Tik Tok
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!
2025-07-21 18:10:52 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Ralph AKA Skill Up about his rise to YouTube success and how he's using that community to launch a new video game site: thisweekinvideogames.com. You might know Ralph from the Friends Per Second podcast along with Lucy James and Jake Baldino. We talk about the state of games media and how it's lik...
2025-07-21 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! We're getting closer to MinnMax's summer community meetup happening in Minneapolis at Utepils Brewing on Saturday, August 9th from 12-5pm and we'd love to get a ballpark idea of how many folks are attending. Please leave a comment if you're planning on coming and if you're bringing other people,...
2025-07-18 16:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman debate the 5 greatest 3D platformers of all time. Which five games will we let into the club? Will any of them be hit by a poison shuriken? As we prepare to dive into Donkey Kong Bananza on the Nintendo Switch 2, we look back on the classics like Super Mario 64, Astro Bot, and Jak and Daxter. Then we answer your wonderful questions submitted on Patreon!
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This is the audio version of this week's New Show Plus winner! MinnMax's Ben Hanson and guest cohort Kyle Bosman assign reviews to video game publishers, randomizing the list for where to start. How does Xbox score compared to Square-Enix? How much does Atari's unique merch factor in here? Vote for more episodes of Publisher Report Card by joining the Backstage Pass tier.
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2025-07-16 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you missed it, our dear old friend Suriel Vazquez came by the MinnMax Studio to go up against Ben in Marvel vs Capcom 2... Ben tried to prove that he is a "fight stick" guy. https://youtu.be/0Cm5UZeBUeM
We also just did a spoilercast for Superman! https://youtu.be/BTPjz9C45SA
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have B...
2025-07-15 17:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman are joined by Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund, Bryan Vore, and Game Informer's Charles Harte to review and unpack spoilers for James Gunn's Superman from 2025. We talk about the best moments, the ending, the post-credits scenes, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, changes to Superman's origin, the future of the DCU, ...
2025-07-15 16:15:03 +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!
2025-07-14 20:33:00 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Sarah Podzorski, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman share their picks for the game of the summer. Is it Mario Kart World? Death Stranding 2? Tamagotchi Plaza for some reason? Then we answer your wonderful questions submitted here on Patreon!
Get a PS5 code for the great game Despelote if you support MinnMax on Patreon (or upgrade your tier) before Monday, July 14th. We have 50 PS5 codes, North America only. We'll post on all social channels if we run out. 2025-07-09 22:52:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We won't get to it in time for the podcast, but we'll be reacting live to the State of Play showing off gameplay for Ghost of Yotei this Thursday at 4pm Central on YouTube. Also, in case you missed it, here's our Max Spoilers for Jurassic World Rebirth - https://youtu.be/Ou6E7P3BQUY
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, guest cohort Kyle Bosman, Kelsey Lewin, and Sarah Podzorski. It's...
2025-07-08 17:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by former MinnMax cohort Ana Diaz and here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…
Puzzle game mechanics
Gatcha game ethics
Ana's current games she's playing
Ana's games she's looking forward to
Pokemon rants
Here’s a link to the video version of this episode! - https://yout...
2025-07-07 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Jacob Geller are joined by Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund and our guest cohort for the month Kyle Bosman to unpack the seventh movie in the Jurassic Park series. In this spoilercast we talk about Scarlett Johansson's Zora Bennett, director Gareth Edwards, and the mutant dinosaurs like the D Rex.
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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!
2025-07-07 17:54:38 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, and Haley MacLean are joined by MinnMax's guest cohort for the month of July: Kyle Bosman! We run through every game confirmed for a 2025 release and load our six-shooters for a deadly duel to see who gets to claim which game. We also talk about Microsoft's brutal layoffs and studio closures in the community questions. There is a BDS boycott of Microsoft happening that you can learn more about here - 2025-07-03 05:11:55 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, and Jeff Marchiafava are joined by July's guest cohort Kyle Bosman (Delayed Input, formerly of Easy Allies) as he pitches 10 ideas for how to improve The MinnMax Show. Please leave a comment with your own super real and doable suggestion. Tune in to The ...
2025-07-02 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! We're happy to reveal that for the month of July we'll be joined by Kyle Bosman as a Guest Cohort! The same way we had Alanah Pearce join us in January, Kyle Bosman will be appearing on The MinnMax Show and New Show Plus throughout the full month - all thanks to your support. You might know Kyle from his time at Easy Allies, or his excellent YouTube channel Delayed Input, or his work with Geoff Keighley...
2025-07-01 18:34:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, Ben Hanson fills in for Haley MacLean (who will be back next week) and talks to Kelsey Lewin about...
Kelsey's new Borzoi dog named Piroshky
Metal Jesus Rocks' new video on a huge trade-in to Kelsey's Pink Gorilla game stores - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMBXF541OI...
2025-06-30 20:30:12 +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!
2025-06-30 18:12:22 +0000 UTC
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In this MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson speaks to former editor-in-chief of Polygon Chris Plante about the beloved site's sale to Valnet and how that freed him to follow his own passion: creating an independent "audio magazine" video game podcast called Post Games. We also talk a little bit about cohosting The Besties podcast with G...
2025-06-30 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe've hit 300 episodes of The MinnMax Show and cannot thank you enough for sharing the show! MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and Haley MacLean to unpack our spoiler-free thoughts on Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding 2 (codes provided by PlayStation). Then Jacob Geller raves about the DLC called Lies of P: Overture before Sarah Podzorski joins the festivities to talk about the delightful thrills of co-op mountain climbing in Peak and Ben and Kyle survive even longer...
2025-06-26 02:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostDon't miss the season finale of Pew Pew Bang, subscribe to it in your favorite podcast app and help spread the word! Charles Harte joins on the big episode for some tabletop role-playing fun! https://youtu.be/lq4ridyhIzw
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Haley MacLean, Jacob Geller, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, n...
2025-06-24 17:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Jacob Geller to talk about...
a lil Death Stranding 2 convo tease
Summer Game Fest vs GDC
Jacob's new book release! (How a Game Lives)
6 more games Jacob played at Summer Game Fest
will we play Judas? that Ken Levine game that went missing (yes Haley wants to force Jacob to)
zombie nightmares