This week for MinnMax Council, we're joined by Kyle Hilliard to talk about Max Payne 3, the Coen brothers, Book of Boba Fett, and a whole lot more thanks to the MinnMax community at the $20 tier on Patreon here. We hope you enjoy the discussion and we hope you're ready for next week's episode!
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Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
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2022-01-24 15:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patreon-exclusive interview, Ben Hanson talks to the fan who translated the 2002 GameBoy Advance RPG called Tomato Adventure. The game was developed by AlphaDream, who went on to develop the Mario & Luigi series. We talk about the game's highlights, what makes it stand out as a great and bizarre comedic RPG, and what compelled "Demille" to work so hard on creating an English version.
<... 2022-01-21 18:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! We have a big episode for you this week, as Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, and Janet Garcia unpack the news that Microsoft has acquired Activision Blizzard and rave about the new action RPG Nobody Saves the World. Then we're joined by the co-director of the Video Game History Foundation Kelsey Lewin to talk about RPGs on the GameBoy Advance like Mother 3 and Tomato Adventure. Then Sarah Podzorski jumps on to help us answer community ques...
2022-01-19 21:20:49 +0000 UTC View Post
For the third week in a row, Backstage Pass supporters have voted for a Bonus Podcast for New Show Plus! MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski talk about the Xbox and Activision news, our worst jobs, beavers, Nier Automata, Solar Ash, and more!
You can watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/2Ds...
2022-01-19 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Sarah Podzorski, and special guest co-director of the Video Game History Foundation Kelsey Lewin! It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out ...
2022-01-18 20:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Please join MinnMax's Ben Hanson and IGN's executive editor Ryan McCaffrey tonight (January 18th) at 6:30pm Central for an intense round of video game trivia! The competition happens in the MinnMax Discord, there's a link below. If you answer correctly, you move on to the next floor of Trivia Tower. Along the way, you can win a game code for Nobody Saves the World, Death...
2022-01-18 20:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In this new interview, Ben Hanson speaks with Drinkbox Studios' lead designer Ian Campbell and concept lead Augusto Quijano about creating their new (and excellent) action RPG called Nobody Saves the World. You might be familiar with Drinkbox's previous work such as Guacamelee, Tales from Space, or Severed. In this interview, we talk about how the small team created such an addicting and satisfying p...
2022-01-18 17:15:59 +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! 2022-01-17 20:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody! We're continuing to experiment with the MinnMax Council format, and on this episode we created a "Stage" within Discord to bring folks at the $20 tier on to speak if they have something to say about a topic. Any feedback on these changes is welcome.
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon and they can ask us anything under the sun. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
2022-01-17 19:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
https://youtu.be/JjJWJuF4sW8...
2022-01-17 16:25:21 +0000 UTC View PostIn this Patreon-exclusive podcast, Kyle Hilliard and Ben Hanson each share their ten favorite films of 2021. We talk about movies like Dune, Luca, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, The Matrix Resurrections, and a whole lot more. We give you a heads up check out the timestamps below if you want to dodge spoilers for two films...
The Matrix Resurrections Spoilers - 17:19- 31:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home Spoilers - 44:45-50:51
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2022-01-14 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski each share their 5 most anticipated games of 2022. Then we're joined by Leo Vader to answer some great questions from the community.
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You voted for it, so we're back with another Bonus Podcast for New Show Plus! MinnMax's Leo Vader, Sarah Podzorski, and Jeff Marchiafava talk about smells, garbage, high school, vacations, and a whole lot more. Every week we let Patreon supporters at the $10 tier vote to choose which new show we create or continue, jump up to that tier and vote for a third episode of Bonus Podcast for New Show Plus!<...
2022-01-12 18:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, 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 10am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...
- Our most anticipated ga...
2022-01-11 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews the former lead narrative designer at 343 Industries Aaron Linde about his experience writing Halo Infinite's battle chatter for the sandbox. They talk about the funniest lines from the Grunts and what it's like tackling a project as big as Halo Infinite. They also talk about Linde's history at Gearbox as the lead writer for Battleborn and how that helped prepare him f...
2022-01-11 17:16:04 +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! 2022-01-10 19:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! Today for MinnMax Council we tried something a bit different and just had a big group conversation with everybody at the MinnMax Council tier. Let us know what you think of the format!
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon and they can ask us anything under the sun. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
If you want to join the MinnMax Council and even call-in to the ...
2022-01-10 19:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
https://youtu.be/x0UL2R1eu-c...
2022-01-10 15:27:54 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork talk about their personal goals for the month and take calls from the MinnMax community about getting better. This will be the final episode the stand-alone version of BetterQuest, but you can still set personal goals for yourself, encourage each other in the Discord, and write in to The MinnMax Show podcast with updates. The main podcast will be absorbing the "getting better" mission of the show. Thank you for all of your support!
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2022-01-07 02:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show, everybody! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, and Leo Vader are joined by former cohort Suriel Vazquez to share our top 10 games of 2021, talk about PlayStation VR2, and then run down the community's objective list of the best games of 2021. Then we're joined by Janet Garcia to answer wonderful community questions submitted on Patreon!
Check out the ...
2022-01-05 22:17:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhile normally New Show Plus is a show for Twitch and YouTube, $10 supporters this week voted for a show called "Bonus Podcast" so we wanted to put it in your podcast feed! MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava kick off the new year by talking about their winter break and all of the games they played. We talk about JeffM's new PlayStation 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, the tabletop game Time Barons, and a whole lot more. You can join the Backstage Pass tier and vote to continue Bonu...
2022-01-05 18:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Sarah Podzorski, and special guest Suriel Vazquez. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, 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 10am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...
- What we played ...
2022-01-04 19:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and Wade Wojcik are back to finish off their big multi-part game club discussion of Halo Infinite's campaign from 343 Industries. The Deepest Dive is fueled by comments submitted over on Patreon by the MinnMax community. This discussion covers everything in the game from the Pelican Down mission up through the game's ending so obviously it contains plenty of spoilers. We talk about Weapon, Atriox's journey, The Harbinger, ...
2022-01-04 19:15:00 +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! 2022-01-03 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
On this weeks' episode of MinnMax Council, Kyle Hilliard joins Ben Hanson to talk about planning our next Deepest Dive, Ken Levine's next game, what we played over our vacations, Kyle's trip to Hawaii, and more!
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon and they can ask us anything under the sun. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
If you want to join the MinnMax Council and even call-...
2022-01-03 19:25:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
https://youtu.be/DvzF9v39Lak...
2022-01-03 15:23:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We're finishing off The Deepest Dive on Halo Infinite and need your thoughts on the second half of the game's campaign! In case you missed it, here's our first discussion - https://youtu.be/sDgNaxNVCt8
Submit a comment below and please get specific. Don't write a long review, please keep your one comment to around ...
2022-01-01 17:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody! If you're reading this, then we owe you a big thank you for supporting MinnMax. You're the reason we can keep on rolling. We hope you enjoyed all of our work in 2021. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback to help shape our content in 2022. We want to keep evolving, improving, you know... getting better. I want to thank all of you as well for allowing us to experiment and shake things up moving into the new year.
Let us know in the comments what you want fro...
2021-12-30 15:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the final episode of The MinnMax Show for 2021! On this big episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski battle it out to rank and lock down the greatest games of the year for our list of The Two Tens. We talk about Returnal, Deathloop, Rider's Republic, Life is Strange: True Colors, and a whole lot more. On the next episode, we'll let the community in the Discord vote to determine their collective Top 10 for the year. If you've...
2021-12-29 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post