Thanks to a MinnMax community member named Keith (keith.e on Discord) jumping up to the highest Patreon tier, a Hootenanny has been triggered! We assembled as many cohorts as possible for a fun and loose bonus podcast. In this episode, we talk about weddings, bidets, karaoke, and Summer Game Fest. A huge thank you for making this group of people getting together like this possible, help thank Keith i...
2025-06-23 18:47:19 +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!
2025-06-23 18:26:43 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Haley MacLean, and Kyle Hilliard unpack all of the fun details revealed in the Nintendo Direct all about Donkey Kong Bananza and his new best bud Pauline before we talk about our experience with the Nintendo Switch 2 weeks after the system's launch. Then Leo, Haley, and JeffM explain why The Alters from 11 bit is such a unique, incredible, and stressful experience. After that, we answer your questions submitted here on Patreon!
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2025-06-19 02:12:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's New Show Plus (as voted on by our Backstage Pass members) is another one well suited for the audio feed! MinnMax's Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava take a scientific method to finding where their gaming tastes differ and cross over by plotting them in a Venn Diagram and discussing what logic they find in the chaos.
Watch the video version on YouTube here!
2025-06-18 16:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax is only able to attend Summer Game Fest every year because your support on Patreon has turned us into a real gaming outlet, so it's only fair that we share the full experience with you! Kelsey Lewin and Jacob Geller attended the big show for the first time this year along with Janet Garcia, this travelogue is a whirlwind tour of the event! Watch and share our travelogue video here - 2025-06-17 18:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax is only able to attend Summer Game Fest every year because your support on Patreon has turned us into a real gaming outlet, so it's only fair that we share the full experience with you! Kelsey Lewin and Jacob Geller attended the big show for the first time this year along with Janet Garcia, this travelogue is a whirlwind tour of the event! Watch and share our travelogue video here - 2025-06-17 18:15:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, 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 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...
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Leo Vader to watch trailers for community-submitted picks of the most underrated games of the year so far! Thanks so much to everyone who submitted.
We do our best to describe the trailers but it's an especially visual episode, so here's a link to the video version complete with timestamps for you. (update: now it actually is a link to that)
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2025-06-16 22:46:30 +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!
2025-06-16 17:33:28 +0000 UTC
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Because of your support here on Patreon, you have all built something incredibly rare at MinnMax. Last month we put out the call for MinnMax community members to step outside of their comfort zone and create a short documentary under 3 minutes long on any topic they want, no previous experience required. For the third year in a row now, you all have stepped up and created some incredible documentarie...
2025-06-16 16:15:17 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, and Jacob Geller share their full thoughts on Summer Game Fest 2025 and share their picks for the "Game of the Show". They got to experience behind-closed-doors gameplay demos for things like Resident Evil Requiem, Ninja Gaiden 4, and more! Then we answer wonderful questions submitted by the MinnMax community on Patreon!
Check out Janet's article on the protests and SGF - 2025-06-11 23:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody! Just a heads up that we'll be streaming the Doc Lightning Film Festival this Thursday at 7:30pm Central on Twitch, and it'll be up on YouTube the following Monday. A huge thanks to everybody who went out of their comfort zone and created a documentary under 3 minutes long, we can't wait to watch and celebrate all of them. We'll be sending out a Steam code offer to everybody who participated by submitting a film after the screening. As of now, here's everybody who submitted a do...
2025-06-10 18:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Sarah Podzorski and Jeff Marchiafava and here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…
Mario Kart World, including
free roam
the game's new skill ceiling
Knockout Tour
best levels
best racers
actually reading the Switch 2's EULA
how EULAs are being used by tech companies in general
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!
2025-06-09 18:50:05 +0000 UTC
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On this episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava gather in the MinnMax Studio to unbox their feelings on the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 after their first day with the system. We talk about Mario Kart World and debate the quality of Welcome Tour. Then we share highlights from Sony's State of Play, featuring Lumines Arise, the exciting reveal of Marvel Tōkon, and the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster! Then Sarah shares her thoughts on Elden Ri...
2025-06-06 03:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's New Show Plus (as voted on by our Backstage Pass members) is another one well suited for the audio feed! Leo Vader (MinnMax) and Ben Hanson (MinnMax) are joined by Charles Harte (Game Informer) and Suriel Vazquez (unclaimed) to invert our tentpole Two Tens debates with an unflinching ranking of all the games we can remember that have the number 2 in them.
Watch the video version on YouTube here!
2025-06-04 16:22:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! The MinnMax Show will be airing later than usual this week because we want to get our hands on the Switch 2 for the episode, so it will most likely be airing late in the evening on Thursday. Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Janet Garcia are heading to Summer Game Fest in LA this week and will be producing a travelogue to let you share the experience. For the home team, we will have plenty of reaction streams AND we're planning on a Switch 2 launch stream as well from the MinnMax...
2025-06-03 18:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kelsey Lewin, and Haley MacLean finish off their huge game club on Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. We cover and spoil everything in this game from defeating the two axons up through the ending and bonus content. Going way beyond a spoilercast on the game's ending, we read community comments and create the discussion this game deserves about Mael...
2025-06-03 16:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, passion continues to guide us as guest host Ben Hanson gathers Jacob Geller, Leo Vader, and Giant Bomb's Dan Ryckert to discuss The Rehearsal's unbelievable new season. We talk favorite moments, recurring themes, and where it fits into Nathan Fielder's incredible body of work. And we mention that it's funny.
Here’s a link to the video version of this episode!
Thanks so much for supportin...
2025-06-02 22:08:50 +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!
2025-06-02 18:27:18 +0000 UTC
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End of the line, folks! We're now collecting your thoughts on the ending of the great new RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for The Deepest Dive. We're covering absolutely everything in this last discussion.
As always, please be specific with your comment. Please don't just say "I like the ending" or "I didn't like the ending", we'll cover that conversation on our end. Get specif...
2025-05-30 16:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, and Kyle Hilliard, are joined by GameSpot's managing editor Tamoor Hussain to talk about Summer Game Fest as we share our biggest predictions for the summer reveal season. Then Tamoor and Kyle talk about playing From Software's Elden Ring Nightreign and we unpack the unfortunate cancelation of EA's Black Panther game and studio from former heads of Monolith and Shadow of Mordor. After that, we dive into your wonderful community questions!
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2025-05-29 01:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey, did you see the new episode of Pew Pew Bang went up? Any help sharing this great podcast with feminine-leaning folks in your life is appreciated. Oh, and please subscribe to the stand-alone podcast version! https://youtu.be/_i27qAXe2-4
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and special guest 2025-05-27 18:24:09 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews legendary developer Hideki Kamiya about directing Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta, and more! We also talk about his passion for blocking people on Twitter, whether he wants to direct Dino Crisis, and founding the studio CLOVERS to direct the sequel to Okami with Capcom. Any help sharing the interview online is appreciated! - 2025-05-27 16:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews legendary developer Hideki Kamiya about directing Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta, and more! We also talk about his passion for blocking people on Twitter, whether he wants to direct Dino Crisis, and founding the studio CLOVERS to direct the sequel to Okami with Capcom. Any help sharing the interview online is appreciated! - 2025-05-27 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!
2025-05-26 16:18:53 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! We're excited to announce we're hosting a MinnMax community meetup at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 12-5pm on Saturday, August 9th. We've reserved a space in their Bay 10 private room, where we'll have our own bartender and projector. So you can expect some Mario Kart World races or Smash Bros. ...
2025-05-23 17:07:51 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava share some hidden gems from the first half of 2025 by talking about games like Starvaders and Shotgun Cop Man. Then we talk about the surprising tactics based based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a destruction-focused delivery game from Konami! After that, it's nothing but your great community questions!
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kelsey Lewin, and Haley MacLean continue their three-part game club discussion covering Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive and Kepler Interactive. In this discussion, they cover everything in the game from when you acquire the fourth character (Sciel) to when you've dealt with the two axons. We don't spoil anything after you return to the world m...
2025-05-21 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostHeads up that The Deepest Dive on the middle section of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is recording tonight at 7:30pm Central on Twitch, it'll be up on YouTube and the bonus podcast feed on Wednesday. Also, due to some scheduling challenges there isn't a New Show Plus happening this week BUT we have some fun bonus videos going up in its place. Thanks for your patience on that front!
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Ja...
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