Welcome back to MinnMax Council! On the final Sunday of every month, we let everybody from the MinnMax Council tier on Patreon call in to the show and talk about whatever they'd like, and on this month's episode Ben Hanson is joined by Suriel Vazquez! We talk about Mass Effect 3's ending, more about Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, and even play some trivia with Bob Buel. If you want to call in a...
2021-03-01 19:01:01 +0000 UTC
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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! 2021-03-01 18:29:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody! Thanks for being a member of the MinnMax Council! This Sunday at 6pm Central, you can call in via the MinnMax Council Discord channel and talk to Suriel Vazquez and Ben Hanson about whatever you'd like! We'll answer any question, talk about the news, or just listen to you rant about your favorite game.
Let us know if you have any questions about how to call in via the Discord, and thanks again for the support.
2021-02-27 16:03:06 +0000 UTC
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Leo here with a new Watch Later! And the last of "season one." I'll still be on MinnMax content in every other capacity (podcast, streams, etc) but I want to redirect more writing energy towards my personal channel for now. Thanks for a great first run of Watch Laters! If you've got any questions, always happy to chat in the Discord. Have a great weekend everyone!
2021-02-26 22:29:43 +0000 UTC
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Get ready for The Deepest Dive on 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum from Rocksteady Studios! We're creating the best, most thorough discussion about the beloved game on the internet, and we need your help! You can submit a comment for us to read on the show about the first half of the game on Monday, March 8th right here on Patreon. The stopping point for the first half of this game club is when you get the line launcher, then we'll discuss the second half of the game the followin...
2021-02-26 21:05:46 +0000 UTC
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Edit: Was down for a bit and now it's back up!
People said they only found out about my last editing stream because of the Patreon post so I'm doing it again! I'll be live for the next three hours or so, putting together my upcoming Rainbow Six Siege operator ranking Watch Later. It'll be my last one for a while, so come hang out!
2021-02-26 16:35:16 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Jeff Marchiafava are joined by Janet Garcia and Imran Khan to go over the day's news on a bonus episode of the podcast! We talk about all of the announcements from Sony's State of Play, including the new game Sifu and a new trailer for Arkane's Deathloop. We also break down the avalanche of Final Fantasy VII news, including the PlayStation 5 upgrade, Yuffie-focused new episode, and two ridiculous mobile games. Help support indie media by checking out the benefits on P...
2021-02-26 01:15:30 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Suriel Vazquez, Jeff Marchiafava, and Kyle Hilliard talk about some great new games they've been playing before Leo Vader joins the crew to talk about BlizzCon 2021 and answer questions from the community!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:45 - Announcing the next Deepest Dive
00:06:25 - Olija
00:15:15 - Persona 5 Strikers
00:25:59 - Cap...
2021-02-24 22:47:38 +0000 UTC
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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and 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...
- Olija
- Guilty Gear St...
2021-02-23 19:01:01 +0000 UTC
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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!
2021-02-22 20:05:09 +0000 UTC
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Kyle Hilliard joins us at the end of this episode of MinnMax Council to talk about his return to Valhalla, after Ben Hanson talks about planning the next Deepest Dive, playing Valheim, and much more.
Every Monday at noon 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 sh...
2021-02-22 19:12:45 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Ben Pack about his time at Giant Bomb and why he decided to leave the world of full-time podcasting and video games behind. They talk the challenges of internet feedback, Ben's evolution on the Bombcast podcast, and that time they met Werner Herzog at a table read for The Simpsons.
Watch and help share the video version of the interview here - https://youtu.be/d6ndc6SSENU
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2021-02-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon 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!
2021-02-22 15:47:32 +0000 UTC
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On this Friday's episode of our music podcast CrossFade, the guest is voice actor (and former guest on The MinnMax Show podcast) Sarah Elmaleh and we'll be discussing Beck’s Midnite Vultures and The Cure’s Disintegration. Subscribe to the podcast in its own stand-alone feed and listen to the albums to get ready!
On every episode of CrossFade, we want to involve the Patreon community as muc...
2021-02-21 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Suriel Vazquez, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by guest Dan Ryckert to break down the biggest announcements from the Nintendo Direct and a whole lot more. Thanks for your support, everybody!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:05:29 - Nintendo Direct announcements
00:06:48 - Breath of the Wild's sequel update
00:09:39 - The Legend of Zelda: Skyward S...
2021-02-18 04:14:31 +0000 UTC
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Every week we let Patreon supporters at the Backstage Pass tier vote to choose which show we stream on Twitch and later post on YouTube. This week's winner was "Gaming's Greatest Debates" with Jeff Marchiafava and Suriel Vazquez. Since the show didn't include any gameplay, we decided to post it in the audio feed as well as on YouTube. We hope you enjoy the show, you can always vote to keep it going next week if you do! Oh, and thanks again for your support!
If you want to watch the vid...
2021-02-17 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Suriel Vazquez, and Dan Ryckert. 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...
- The Nintendo Direct (We're re...
2021-02-16 20:07:08 +0000 UTC
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Hello and welcome to the first episode of Trivia Tower! The competition starts at 7pm Central tonight (Monday, February 15th), so jump in the MinnMax Discord (link below) and look on the left-hand side to find a channel called "1st Floor." That's where the competition begins. You'll be watching the YouTube stream from this post for the questions and then answering the game trivia questions in the 1st Floor Discord channel. If you're the first to get an answer correct, you mov...
2021-02-15 21:38:33 +0000 UTC
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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.
Quick Note: Leo is on vacation this week, so Raft-a-two-ey isn't an option this time around but it will be on the poll in the futur...
2021-02-15 20:18:02 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at noon 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! On this week's episode, we talk about the history of our new show Trivia Tower, outline why you should know the name Grezzo, and then Kyle Hilliard calls into talk about Captain Toad.
If you want to join the MinnMax Council and even call-in to the show on the last Sunday ...
2021-02-15 19:13:08 +0000 UTC
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In this MinnMax interview, Kyle Hilliard talks to Little Nightmares II's narrative designer Dave Mervik from Tarsier Studios about how the team created their universe. They talk about taking inspiration from Road Dahl, share thoughts on Playdead's Inside, and get into some eventually get into some spoiler discussion about specifics moments in the horrific sequel.
You can watch the video version...
2021-02-15 17:15:59 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon 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.
Remember we have a new show airing at 7pm Central tonight called Trivia Tower! Jump in the Discord and compete to win prizes!
Thanks ...
2021-02-15 14:23:31 +0000 UTC
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With Trivia Tower, the community competes in a multi-round game trivia challenge with prizes including codes for games like Knockout City, Death's Door, and even an Astro A40 headset! The trivia competition happens in the MinnMax Discord, which you get access to if you support us at any tier on Patreon. You won't be able to find the answers to these questions on Google, and the chat is slowed down so you can only make one guess ever 30 seconds. The next episode of Trivia Tower is Monday, Augu...
2021-02-12 19:17:41 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez weigh the results from their 2020 game industry predictions before creating new ones for 2021! We try to predict whether Breath of the Wild's sequel will release this year, what God of War: Ragnarok will be like, and what hardware Nintendo is planning. Then Kyle Hilliard shares his thoughts on Little Nightmares II. After that we're joined by Sarah Podzorski to answer quest...
2021-02-10 22:24:12 +0000 UTC
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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, 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...
- Little Nightmares II
2021-02-09 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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On this Friday's episode of our music podcast CrossFade, the guest is Gareth Coker who composed music for the Ori series as well as Immortals: Fenyx Rising. We'll be discussing Hybrid's Disappear Here and Owen Pallett's In Conflict.
On every episode of CrossFade, we want to involve the Patreon community as much as possible. So please leave a question or discussion topic below and we’ll read some of our favorites on the episode! Also, please leave a l...
2021-02-08 21:31:00 +0000 UTC
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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 last week, 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!
2021-02-08 19:58:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! We're officially renaming MinnFAQs to MinnMax Council! We're looking to make things easier, by saying that if you join the MinnMax Council tier on Patreon you can be a part of the show with the same name. With the name change, we're also hoping to have more calls from cohorts and friends of the show. On this episode, we're joined by Kyle Hilliard to talk about Super Meat Boy Forever, Donkey Kong Country 3, and his new job. Then Leo Vader calls in to break down the best and wo...
2021-02-08 19:12:45 +0000 UTC
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In this MinnMax interview, Ben Hanson talks to Tim Longo about his career in the game industry from working on LucasArts games like Star Wars: Republic Commando to his work as the creative director for Halo Infinite with 343 Industries. Based on his time as creative director for Tomb Raider 2013 at Crystal Dynamics, we talk about the challenges of rebooting a beloved series and how far you can push a formula fans love. We also talk about the Dev Game Club podcast, Longo's side project with de...
2021-02-08 17:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, everybody! Small tweak for you all: MinnFAQs is now MinnMax Council! We can talk more about the changes on the show itself today!
Every Monday at Noon 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 str...
2021-02-08 14:58:32 +0000 UTC
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