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MinnFAQs - The New Backstage Pass Tier

Every Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon. 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.

Also, just a heads up that on this episode of the podcast it takes us a while to talk about the new revamped $10 tier. We start discussing it ...

Mitch Dyer On Writing Star Wars Games And Leaving EA

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Mitch Dyer about why he's leaving EA Motive and about his journey from being a journalist at IGN to working on games like Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars Squadrons, and the studio's mysterious new IP.

You can watch the video version of this discussion here!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Jj_SBe9RA 

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. 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://www.youtube.com/watc...

The MinnMax Show - Halo Infinite, Fable, Nintendo's Gigaleak

Hello everybody and welcome back to The MinnMax Show! This week Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava break down Xbox's games showcase and a whole lot more. Thanks so much for your support!

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:27 - Red Dead Online's Naturalist update

00:04:32 - Xbox Games Showcase

00:06:16 - Everwild

00:07:29 - Fable

00:09:17 - State of Decay 3

00...

My Life As A Barber In Hitman 2 - Watch Later (Early Access)

Hey folks, Leo here with the first episode of my new video essay series Watch Later! Today I'm investigating one of Hitman's most ridiculously in-depth disguises, and you fine folks get to watch it a few days early thanks to your generous support.

We'll be putting out episodes every other week! The topics will vary wildly, but they'll all be in my voice with my timely, dare I say essential jokes. 

Thank you so much for your support, and boosting us past our goal of doing vide...

Submit Your Ghost Of Tsushima Screenshot For Photomode Snap

This Thursday at 3pm Central, we're streaming a bonus episode of Photomode Snap fully dedicated to Ghost of Tsushima on the PlayStation 4! Leave a comment below with a screenshot or ANIMATED SCREENSHOT that you took from the game we'll review it on the show along with the MinnMax community. You can submit a link to your Tweet or a link to Google Drive, just make sure we'll have permission to download...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Leo Vader. 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 Xbox Games Showcase

- Red Dead Online's new...

Submit Your Question, Topic, Or Song For MinnTrax!

On this Friday's episode, the guest is former Game Informer senior editor Matthew Kato and we’ll be reviewing "Earl Grey” by Girl Ray and “Real” by Lydia Loveless. You’re welcome to listen to the albums ahead of time!

On every episode of MinnTrax, 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 link to your current favorite song or a so...

MinnFAQs - Seattle, Studios, And Spices

Every Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all! On this week's episode, we talk about about podcast audio quality, why I'm streaming from a shed in Seattle, and some upcoming changes to the $10 tier.

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 mon...

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. 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. This episode will be a bit different, since I'll be streaming from a shed outside of Seattle...

Thanks for your support, everybody!

2020-07-27 16:15:50 +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 for The Great GOTY Hunt, and I'm excited to host my first one tomorrow at 12 PM Central! 

For all you Destroy All Humans fans, that release is missing from this poll because we'll be covering it later this week! So look forward to that.

2020-07-27 15:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Refreshed - The Unlikely Online Fandom For Overlooked Animated Films (With Petrana Radulovic)

MinnMax's Ana Diaz is joined by Polygon's Petrana Radulovic to talk about The Road to El Dorado and its surprising online fanbase and more. You can watch Refreshed streamed live every other Thursday on MinnMax's Twitch channel, give us a follow! https://www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow

You can watch the video version of Refreshed here! https:...

The MinnMax Show - The Best New IP Of The Generation

We have a huge, new episode of The MinnMax Show for you! Today Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, and Suriel Vazquez are joined by video essay extraordinaire Jacob Geller to run down our picks for our favorite/the most potentially prolific new IP from the entire generation. There's a lot to unpack here. Then we're joined by Leo Vader to answer questions from the community.

Also, just a heads up, we'...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for the community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Ana Diaz, and Jacob Geller. 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 best new IP of the generation ...

Choose What We Stream On The Great GOTY Hunt!

It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt. 

Ghost of Tsushima - We can explore the open world near the beginning of the game together and have some fun.

Paper Mario: The Origami King - We coul...

MinnFAQs - The July Community Call-In Special With Leo Vader

For the last Sunday of every month, we let folks at the MinnMax Council tier on Patreon call in to our Patreon-exclusive podcast MinnFAQs and ask us anything they want. Due to some scheduling stuff, we bumped the call-in episode up a week and are honored to be joined by the latest cohort Leo Vader! We take calls and talk about his plans for video essays at MinnMax, his thoughts on comedy, and much more.

If you want to join the MinnMax Council and call-in to MinnFAQs on the last Sunday o...

Call In And Talk To Leo Vader At 6pm Central On Sunday!

Hello everybody! We normally have the call-in episode of MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of the month, but due to some scheduling issues we're bumping it up this week! At 6pm Central on Sunday July 19th, Leo Vader and Ben Hanson will be taking calls and answering any questions you have about our past, MinnMax's future, or the news of the week!

We'll be taking calls from the MinnMax Council Discord channel, so jump in there and let us know if you want us to call you. Be sure...

All MinnMax Merch Is Now 30% Off In This Flash Sale

Hey everybody! As a thank you for all of your amazing support for MinnMax so far, everything in the MinnMax merch store is 30% until Sunday! This includes shirts, hoodies, stickers, magnets, posters, and (of course) JeffM face masks. Follow the link below, cruise the store, and let us know what kind of merch you'd like to see in the future!

https://www.teepublic.com/stores/minnmax?ref_id=12496&...

The MinnMax Show - Ghost Of Tsushima, Paper Mario, Watch Dogs: Legion

Thank you all for supporting MinnMax and making this week's show possible, which features the reunion of the cohorts and Leo Vader! Leo joined MinnMax this week and will be tackling The Great GOTY Hunt and video essays on our YouTube channel. We hope you enjoy the show!

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:06:12 - Ghost Of Tsushima

00:26:24 - Streets of Rogue

00:30:37 - The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx<...

The Deepest Dive - The Last Of Us Part II Part... 4/The Ending

This is it! We did it, you did it! MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and HyperDot developer Charles McGregor finish their in-depth discussion of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part II. This discussion covers everything in the game from Seattle Day 3 to the ending... and then some. Thanks to everybody that submitted so many great comments for us to read on the show and thanks for playing along with us, we couldn't do this without you.

You can watch the video version h...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and LEO VADER. 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...

- Ubisoft Forward

- Ghost of Tsus...

Submit Your Question, Topic, Or Song For MinnTrax!

On this Friday's episode, the guest is Skydance's Justice Harrison and we’ll be reviewing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Eyedea and Abilities' By the Throat. You’re welcome to listen to the albums ahead of time!

On every episode of MinnTrax, 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 link to your current favorite song or a song y...

Choose What We Stream On The Great GOTY Hunt!

It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt. 

Devolverland Expo - In addition to their "E3" stream, the publisher Devolver just released a game that has players exploring a video game convention center and encountering funny easter eggs and info on their upcoming games. This should be a silly, good time.

MinnFAQs - Improving The Discord Community

On this week's episode of MinnFAQs, Ben Hanson is joined by Jeff Marchiafava to talk about the MinnMax community and answer a ton of great questions.

Every Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the High Council) on Patreon. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!

If you want to join the High 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 For The Deepest Dive On The Last Of Us Part II - The Ending

If you're playing The Last of Us Part II along with us for The Deepest Dive, now's your chance to submit a comment for us to read during our gigantic game club discussion airing on Wednesday on YouTube and the Patreon-exclusive podcast feed. The Deepest Dive for The Last of Us Part II features Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and HyperDot developer Charles McGregor.

Leave a specifi...

Join Us For The MinnFAQs Stream At 1pm Central

Every Monday we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the High Council. On this week's show, we're joined by Jeff Marchiafava and the stream is happening at 1pm Central. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day. 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!

2020-07-13 13:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Refreshed - How Neopets Inspired A Generation Of Coders And Writers (With Shannon Liao)

Jelly World exists and this week's guest, CNN Business reporter Shannon Liao, has been there. Join Ana Diaz and Shannon as they touch on a wide variety of Neopets related topics. They talk about getting published in the Neopian times, learning to code, the rise and fall of the Neopets community. Also, they take a couple digressions and discuss online dating in MapleStory and attending a fake Nickelback concert in AdventureQuest. 

You can watch the video version right here - 2020-07-10 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

The MinnMax Show - Xbox Vs. PlayStation's Biggest Showdown, Hyper Scape, Top 10 Marvel Movies

Thanks for supporting The MinnMax Show! This week we have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez for a bit before he swaps out with Ana Diaz.

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

 00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:17 - Deadly Premonition 2

00:06:36 - Xbox's upcoming stream

00:08:43 - Breaking down Microsoft and Sony's E3 2013

00:34:53 - Why EVO 2020 is canceled

00:43:14 - Suriel's GALOT

0...

The Last Of Us Part II - The Deepest Dive Part... III

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and HyperDot developer Charles McGregor continue their in-depth discussion of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part II. This discussion covers everything in the game from the end of Seattle Day 3 and through the next two days, with no spoilers for anything beyond. For the next discussion, please play through the rest of the game and we'll have a post looking for your final thoughts on Monday!

You can watch the video version of the disc...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, 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...

- E3 2013 and PS4 vs. the Xbox One

- The fighting ...