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MinnFAQs - Improving Our Shows, The Future, Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier?

Hello everybody, welcome to a new episode of MinnFAQs! 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 MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month, you can support us at the $20 tier even if only for one month.

MinnMax Interview - Brian David Gilbert On Leaving Polygon And His Future Videos

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Brian David Gilbert about creating videos at Polygon (about Waluigi, Skyrim's books, the Zelda timeline, and more) and why he's decided to leave his series Unraveled and the site to focus on his own videos at briandavidgilbert.com.

You can watch and share the video version right here - https://youtu.be/Di_DjaQArhM

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous suppor...

Submit Your Comment On Cyberpunk 2077's Act 2 For The Deepest Dive

For this week's Cyberpunk 2077 discussion, we're covering the critical path story and everything else in Act 2. Please don't spoil anything beyond Act 2.

Submit a comment on Cyberpunk 2077's Ac 2, and please get specific. Don't write a long review, please keep your one comment to around the length of a tweet. We want to get to as many comments as possible. Let'...

Join Us For The MinnFAQs Stream At Noon Central

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!

BetterQuest - Dance Lessons, Weight Loss, And Little Women

MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork take calls from the community through the Patreon-exclusive Discord and set new personal goals for the month of January. Jeff Cork reports back on his goal of getting better at Fortnite with his son and Ben Hanson talks about taking Balboa dance lessons. They also can't help but talk a little bit about Wonder Woman 1984. If you want to set a personal goal for January, jump in the Discord and make it a good one. You can even call in to the next episode!

The MinnMax Show - Our Top 10 Games From 2020

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! We're back with the new year to let the MinnMax community fix our list of the best games from 2020. On this episode, Ben Hanson, Ana Diaz, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava run down the community's official ranking of the Two Tens and then we each share our personal Top 10 games from 2020.

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:06:23 - The MinnMax community's favorite games of 2020

00:27...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Ana Diaz, and Jeff Marchiafava. 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 personal Top 10 Games of 2020.

Ever...

Choose What We Stream On The Great GOTY Hunt!

Happy New Year folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday at 12 PM Central for The Great GOTY Hunt! Some weird ones for this dry week.

Magic Castle - This unfinished PS1 roguelite was finally polished and released this week by one of the game's original designers. It appears to have been way a...

MinnFAQs - Creating GOTY Lists, The Museum Video, Limited Series

Happy 2021, everybody! We kick off the new year with more behind-the-scenes discussions with MinnFAQs. 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 MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month, you can support us at the $20 tier even if only for one month. 2021-01-04 19:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Join Us For The MinnFAQs Stream At Noon Central

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!

The MinnMax Show - Game Of The Year Debate 2020 Part 2

Welcome to the grand finale of our Game of the Year debate for 2020. In this episode, we finish building a list of the greatest games from 2020 called The Two Tens. Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Suriel Vazquez, Kyle Hilliard, and Ana Diaz debate the correct ranking for games like Ghost of Tsushima, Half-Life: Alyx, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Hades, The Last of Us Part II, and more.

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below......

The Deepest Dive - Cyberpunk 2077's Act 2 Sidequests

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Suriel Vazquez, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava continue their multi-part game club discussion of Cyberpunk 2077. In this discussion, we talk about the best sidequests and storylines from Act 2 of CD Projekt RED's new open-world RPG along with the MinnMax community on Patreon. From romance options to Keanu Reeves' armpits, we cover it all. We'll be back in two weeks for the next...

MinnFAQs - The December Call-In Spectacular!

We hope you all are enjoying the holiday season out there, here's a big episode of MinnFAQs where we take community calls about any topic under the sun. We play some trivia, talk about Star Wars and Final Fantasy, and unpack unnecessary info about Sonic the Hedgehog. You know, all the good podcast ingredients.

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 aud...

Submit Your Comment On Cyberpunk 2077's Side Quests For The Deepest Dive

For this week's Cyberpunk 2077 discussion, we're covering the side quests in Act 2. So every optional mission in the game's big middle act. Please don't spoil anything from the main storyline.

Submit a comment on Cyberpunk 2077's side quests, and please get specific. Don't write a long review, please keep your one comment to around the length of a tweet. We wan...

Call In To MinnFAQs At 6pm Central!

Hey everybody! We're taking any and all calls from the community at 6pm Central for the monthly call in episode of MinnFAQs. If you want to call in, jump in the MinnMax Council channel in the Discord and let us know that you're up for a call. This month it'll just be me... Ben Hanson. But I can do impersonations of any other cohorts upon request.

Let us know if you have any questions abut how the call in works!

The MinnMax Show - Game Of The Year Debate 2020 Part 1

Welcome to the Game of the Year debate from MinnMax! We're building a list of the greatest games from 2020, which we call The Two Tens. Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Suriel Vazquez, Kyle Hilliard, and eventually Ana Diaz talk about their favorite games this year and start to build the list. If you can't wait to hear the rest of the discussion, you can watch next week's discussion early by supporting MinnMax at the Backstage Pass tier. Just don't spoil it for everybody else!

T...

The MinnMax Holiday Special

Happy Holidays, everybody! Because we hit our goal on Patreon, we created the first ever MinnMax Holiday Special as a gigantic thank you to the community. Obviously it's been a wild year, and we can't thank you enough for supporting MinnMax on Patreon and helping to share our podcasts and videos with friends. We're looking forward to working with you all on new adventures in 2021.

Also, just for some programming notes, The Great GOTY Hunt will resume in 2021 in addition to our shows lik...

MinnFAQs - Creating GOTY Content, Dev Roundtables, Holiday Fun

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, you can call-in to MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month! This Sunday, at 6pm on December 27th we'll be taking calls from the Discord. We'd love to hear your voice!

MinnMax's 2020 Developer Roundtable (Hades, Spiritfarer, The Pathless, Empire of Sin, If Found)

MinnMax's Ben Hanson talks to Hades' creative director Greg Kasavin from Supergiant Games, Spiritfarer's creative director Nicolas Guérin from Thunder Lotus Games, If Found's director Laura McGee from Dreamfeel, Empire of Sin's director Brenda Romero, and The Pathless' creative director Matt Nava from Giant Squid about the challenges of developing games in 2020. We hope you enjoy the discussion!

You can watch (and help share) the video version right here - 2020-12-21 17:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Join Us For The MinnFAQs Stream At Noon Central

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.

Just a heads up, this Sunday at 6pm Central is our monthly call-in episode of MinnFAQs! Thanks for your support, everybody!

The Deepest Dive - Cyberpunk 2077 (Act 1)

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Suriel Vazquez, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava kick off their multi-part game club discussion of Cyberpunk 2077. In this discussion, which goes well beyond the average spoilercast or review, we unpack everything interesting in Act 1 of CD Projekt RED's new open-world RPG along with the MinnMax community on Patreon. Yes, we talk about the bugs and the unforgivable state this game was released in for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but we also talk about the story, Jackie Wel...

Max Spoilers - The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale

The second season of The Mandalorian has wrapped up, so it's time to unpack every exciting reveal! On this episode of Max Spoilers, Ben Hanson is joined by Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund and Bryan Vore to talk about the finale and all of the other highlights from the big, glorious season. We hope you enjoy the discussion!

If you prefer to watch the video version of the discussion, check it out here! https://youtu.be/qjP1a3...

The MinnMax Show - The MinnMax Awards 2020

It's time for The MinnMax Awards! On this huge episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, Ana Diaz, Kyle Hilliard, and Leo Vader unpack the year's highlights by debating the nominees and winners for our categories. Each category earns a Maximum winner and a Minimum winner, naturally. We stayed pretty vague, but we've noted in the timestamps below which games are very lightly spoiled in these discussions.

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the t...

Submit Your Question Or Song For Our CrossFade Podcast!

This is not a call for questions for The MinnMax Show podcast, this is for CrossFade. On this Friday's episode of our music podcast CrossFade, the guest is Game Informer editor Blake Hester and we'll be covering My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and Deerhoof's Apple O. 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 much as possible....

Choose What We Stream On The Great GOTY Hunt!

Hey folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday at 12 PM Central for The Great GOTY Hunt! 

Airborne Kingdom - This won our poll for Great GOTY Hunt a few months back and then we realized we weren't allowed to stream it! Put us on the path to redemption today by voting for this flying city ...

MinnFAQs - The Game Awards Recap, Mass Effect, Perfect Dark

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 MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month, you can support us at the $20 tier even if only for one month.

Submit Your Comment On Cyberpunk 2077's First Act For The Deepest Dive

We're doing it, everybody. We're kicking off our gigantic game club discussion of CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077. But, as always, we need your comment to read on the show! This time the panelists are Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Suriel Vazquez, and Jeff Marchiafava.

For this week's discussion, we're covering the game's first act. So roughly the first 7 hours or so. The game clearly ...

Join Us For The MinnFAQs Stream At Noon Central

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!

What TLOU 2’s Multiplayer Needs To Have - Watch Later (Early Access)

Here's a fun video about a game I like! It's kind of my thing!

Thanks everyone who tuned in to the Backstage Pass stream and helped out, the video is better for their input. 

My tenth Watch Later, woo! Here's to ten million more!

The MinnMax Show - 2020's Best Game Music

Hello everybody! Here we go, we're kicking off our big holiday awards season! On this episode, we're joined by Emily Reese from the video game music podcast Level With Emily to rank our favorite video game music from 2020 and much more!

You can find Level with Emily on your favorite podcast app!

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro/CrossFade plug

00:05:20 - The Deepest Dive on Cyberpunk 2077

00:07:39 - Zombie Army...