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Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Ana Diaz, and special guest Emily Reese. 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...

- Cyberpunk 2077

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! This week it's SURIEL SEASON as he plays one of two games he wants to put some serious time into before Game Of The Year discussions later this month!

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales - Miles "Tails" Mor...

Get Ready For The Deepest Dive On Cyberpunk 2077

We hope you're ready for The Deepest Dive on Cyberpunk 2077. We're breaking the game up until multiple sections for a huge game club discussion, fueled by your comments. For the first discussion airing on Wednesday, December 16th, we'll be covering everything in Act 1. We've heard it's roughly 7 hours long, but obviously that's going to vary for everybody. The following episodes/discussions will be two weeks apart, so hopefully you won't be too rushed.

This time around ...

MinnFAQs - Cyberpunk 2077 Reviews, LG CX TVs, The Muppets

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.

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!

Refreshed - The Story Behind Blaseball, The Surreal Online Phenomenon

MinnMax's Ana Diaz interviews the developers of Blaseball to explain the "fantasy fantasy baseball league" and talk about its wild success this year. The Game Band's Sam Rosenthal, Joel Clark, and Stephen Bell discuss how the idea of a community-led storyline can trace its roots back to Twitch Plays Pokémon, why the game of Blaseball feels more like a tabletop game than a sports simulation, and why ...

BetterQuest - Our Personal Goals For December

MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Jeff Cork and callers from the MinnMax community to talk about getting better. They share updates on their personal goals from last month and set new goals of learning how to dance and learning how to build in Fortnite for the month of December! 

We'd love to have you call in on the next episode of the show  on January 7th, 2021! We'll be taking calle...

Submit Your Call Topic/Comment For BetterQuest At 7pm Central!

Get ready for a new episode of BetterQuest today at 7pm Central! Since everybody is doing a great job of tracking their personal goals in the spreadsheet pinned to the BetterQuest channel, we'll be highlighting the community's best work with this episode!

Submit a comment below letting us know if you want to call in at 7pm Central and what topic you want to talk about. You can call in and report back on a goal, set a new goal, tell a story about a time in your life when...

The MinnMax Show - 22 Hidden Gems, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Predicting Game Of The Year

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! We have a huge, fun episode for you this week as we're joined by friend of the show Jacob Geller to talk about Ubisoft's Immortals Fenyx Rising and then we all share 22 underappreciated games from 2020.

Check out Jacob Geller's YouTube channel here - https://bit.ly/2Vs3ezl

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:16 - Anno...

Max Spoilers - Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity

MinnMax's Kyle Hilliard and Suriel Vazquez talk about the ending of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity in this big spoilercast discussion about the full prequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch. Warning! Spoilers!

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier! Get your name on the list right here - 2020-12-02 17:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Ana Diaz, Leo Vader, 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...

- Immortals: Fenyx Rising

- The ...

Refreshed - Revealing The World Of Modding In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

MinnMax's Ana Diaz interviews KKClue about his passion for modding Animal Crossing: New Horizons. He explains how modding is the perfect gateway to game design, what he's learned from messing around with Animal Crossing's code, the history of modding Animal Crossing: New Leaf, and why people are so into his video where Isabelle falls down and nobody helps her get back up.

You can watch the vide...

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! These are all hot new releases, dropping tomorrow (or later in the week in the case of Immortals: Fenyx Rising).

Empire of Sin - Whoa, an empire based on sin? Doesn't sound like any empires I'm familiar wi...

MinnFAQs - The November Call-In Spectacular! (With Best Friend Ronnie)

Here's a big, special episode of MinnFAQs for y'all! Ben Hanson was joined by Best Friend Ronnie as they take dozens of calls from the community and compete in trivia!

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 m...

Call In To MinnFAQs With Best Friend Ronnie On Sunday!

Hello everybody, hope you're having a relaxing holiday weekend! This Sunday at 6pm Central, we have our big community call-in episode of MinnFAQs! This month Ben Hanson will be joined by his old best friend Ronnie, who you might remember from The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake and Super Mario 64.

If you want to call in via Discord and ask Ben and Ronnie anything under...

Submit A Song For Us To Review On The Community Episode Of CrossFade!

We're gearing up for a special episode of our bi-weekly music podcast CrossFade next Friday, where it's going to focus on listening to and discussing songs submitted by the community! So post a comment below with an artist and track that you want Matt Helgeson and Jason Dafnis to listen to and discuss on the show!

CrossFade Community Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

CrossFade is our music podcast hosted by2020-11-27 20:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Call In To MinnFAQs On Sunday Night With Best Friend Ronnie!

Hello everybody! This Sunday at 6pm Central, we'll be kicking off our big community call-in episode of MinnFAQs for November! We'll be taking any and all calls from the MinnMax Council Discord channel, let me know if you have any questions about how it works. For the first time ever, I'll be joined by my old best friend Ronnie who you might remember from The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake, Super Mario 64, and more! The floor is wide open for questions, so feel free to ask about Roch...

The Most Prestigious Awards In Gaming - Watch Later (Early Access)

Happy Thanksgiving! Today I'm thankful for you watching my video. Hope you're all having a safe one, and agree with all my award picks. Thanks for your support!

125 Reasons to Be Thankful For Gaming In 2020

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! To continue our annual Thanksgiving tradition, MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava are joined by Jeff Cork to share 25 things they're thankful for with video games in 2020. We also read 25 jokes, I mean reasons to be thankful, from the MinnMax community that were submitted by all of you on Patreon! Thanks to everybody who submitted a joke, we're sorry ...

The MinnMax Show - Nintendo's 2020 Paradox, Hyrule Warriors, Destiny 2's Raid

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Or, you know, at least everybody in the US. On this episode, we try to wrap our minds around Nintendo in 2020, talk about the raid in Destiny 2, and answer a ton of great questions from the community! Thanks for your support, everybody! Remember that we have our special Thankgiving joke-a-thon going live on Thursday afternoon.

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:56 - Hyrule Warriors: Age ...

The Deepest Dive - Spider-Man: Miles Morales Part 2/The Ending

Welcome to the grand finale of The Deepest Dive on Spider-Man: Miles Morales! MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Ana Diaz, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by former Easy Allies host Kyle Bosman in this gigantic, community-fueled game club discussion of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales by Insomniac Games. This is the second and final discussion, covering everything in the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 game from b...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and Ana Diaz. 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...

- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity 2020-11-24 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

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! The slower release schedule this time of year means it's the perfect time to revisit one of these games that somehow missed being in the running for a GOTY stream this year!

Yakuza: Like A Dragon - I loved...

MinnFAQs - Holiday Special, Future Deepest Dives, Podcast Formats

Hello everybody! Thanks to your support, we hit our goal and will be producing a MinnMax Holiday Special in December! Thank you so much!

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...

Submit Your Comment For The Deepest Dive On Spider-Man: Miles Morales' Ending

We're gearing up for the grand finale of our gigantic discussion of Spider-Man: Miles Morales from Insomniac Games called The Deepest Dive, but we need your comment to read on the show! The panelists are Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Ana Diaz, and special guest (former Easy Allies member) Kyle Bosman.

This discussion cover the second half of the game, from the Nuform reactor explosion through the ...

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!

MinnMax Interview - Abby Russell On Leaving Giant Bomb

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Abby Russell about leaving Giant Bomb at the end of November 2020. She shares her favorite moments, features, and what she's learned along the way about the community, working with Vinny, and video production. Follow Abby on Twitch here - https://www.twitch.tv/ybbaaabby

You can watch the vide...

Submit Your Jokes/Reasons To Be Thankful For Gaming In 2020

For years now, Ben Hanson, Jeff Cork, and Jeff Marchiafava have used Thanksgiving as an opportunity to give thanks to everything great in the world of gaming. We run down 25 reasons to be thankful, but really it's just an opportunity to make jokes about video games released that year.

This year we're reunited with Leo Vader, but that's not all... we also want you to join us! Submit a jo...