Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, we're joined by former Game Informer intern Marcus Stewart as we unpack the interesting official reveal for the next Assassin's Creed reveal, rank Naughty Dog's games (without spoiling anything about The Last of Us Part 2), and review Streets of Rage 4. After thanking our biggest supporters, we answer some great questions from you the community!
Here's Mar...
2020-04-29 23:29:44 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The Deepest Dive! In this gigantic community game club, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Grant, and Ronnie talk about everything in Chapters 1-14 and read hundreds of your comments! We don't spoil anything after Chapter 14 and don't reveal spoilers from the original 1997 game. In this discussion, we talk about the evolution of Barret Wallace as a character, the curious case of Avalanche and specifically Wedge, and our thoughts on Square-Enix's sidequest design.
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2020-04-29 15:06:00 +0000 UTC
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This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and former Game Informer intern Marcus Stewart. 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.
For this week's episode, here are some topics we're planning on d...
2020-04-28 19:10:01 +0000 UTC
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It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt.
Gears Tactics - We'd be starting a new game and going in cold on the new tactics game on PC from The Coalition and Splash Damage.
XCOM: Chimera Squad
2020-04-27 18:12:02 +0000 UTC
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We're more than halfway through The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake, and thanks to you we're creating the best, most thorough discussion on the internet! If you're new, you can catch up on previous discussions in the Patreon-exclusive podcast feed or on MinnMax's YouTube channel.
Now we need your thoughts on Chapters 10-14 for this week's discussion! Please don...
2020-04-27 17:55:26 +0000 UTC
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We're two episodes into our new limited series where we review screenshots from the community called Photomode Snap, you can click here to check it out on YouTube. Last week we let Patreon supporters at the Everybody Votes tier choose our first special edition episode, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild won b...
2020-04-27 15:55:12 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to a very special episode of MinnFAQs, our Patreon-exclusive weekly Q&A for some of MinnMax's biggest supporters. The last Sunday of the month we open up the phone lines and call $20 supporters from Discord's secret High Council channel to let them ask whatever they'd like! On this episode, Ben Hanson talks about A Link to the Past, the best/worst movie-going experience, and choosing future Deepest Dives.
Thanks again to our $20 supporters for both supporting us and calling ...
2020-04-27 15:15:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody! At 6pm Central we'll be going live with the monthly community call-in episode of MinnFAQs, these happen on the last Sunday of every month. We'll be fielding interest and pulling calls from the High Council channel on Discord, you can follow the link here to join the Discord and let me know if you have questions about how it all works.
https://discordapp.com/invite/aqSwgU2
If yo...
2020-04-26 18:29:06 +0000 UTC
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After stumbling across it, the Easy Allies Podcast quickly became my favorite gaming podcast. I thought the host Kyle Bosman did a great job of moving things along while still expressing a deep love for the game industry. Before launching MinnMax, I talked to Easy Allies' Brandon Jones and Daniel Bloodworth and their advice and insight were incredibly important to the foundations of this entire adventure. So it was a real bummer to hear that Kyle Bosman was leaving Easy Allies. Thankfully, he...
2020-04-24 22:29:30 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to your support on Patreon, we recently launched a new show called Photomode Snap where we review screenshots taken by the community. We've been taking great submissions from any game under the sun, but the next episode is going to be a special one and we want YOU to choose the Nintendo game for our first one-game-only episode of Photomode Snap! Which game should we review screenshots from?
You can watch Photomode Snap on MinnMax's YouTube channel right here! 2020-04-23 19:25:49 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! Due to an embargo for XCOM: Chimera Squad, we weren't able to put this podcast up a day early as usual for you. We're sorry for the delay, but we have a great episode for you this week! We're joined by former Game Informer PC editor Adam Biessener to talk about XCOM: Chimera Squad, developer Sam Barlow joins us to talk about Telling Lies, Silent Hill, and telling stories through webcams, and then for community questions we're joined by Jason Schreier, Kirk Ha...
2020-04-23 14:42:25 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The Deepest Dive! In our second discussion, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Grant, and Ronnie talk about damn near everything in Chapters 5-9 of Final Fantasy VII Remake thanks your amazing comments left here on Patreon. We don't spoil anything after Chapter 9 and don't reveal spoilers from the original 1997 game. In this discussion, we talk about Aerith's personality and writing, killer houses, and hand massages.
If you prefer to watch the video version, ch...
2020-04-22 16:02:00 +0000 UTC
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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, the plan is to have Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers, and Kirk Hamilton on during the community questions section to talk about their new podcast Triple Click. During the main...
2020-04-21 17:34:00 +0000 UTC
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MinnTrax is our new music podcast hosted by Matt Helgeson and produced by Jason Dafnis where a guest has Helgeson review one of their favorite albums and vice versa. You can subscribe to MinnTrax on your favorite podcast app, new episodes are released every other Friday.
2020-04-21 15:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt. This week is an odd one...
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break - We have a preview code for the upcoming Rock of Ages sequel, which is a quirky series in the "tower defense racer" genre... with a splash of Monty Python.
2020-04-20 19:55:25 +0000 UTC
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Last week we kicked off The Deepest Dive in an attempt to create the best, most thorough discussion of Final Fantasy VII Remake on the internet. Thanks to everybody's amazing comments and insight, we're on the right track. We talked about the game's first four chapters for three hours, you can catch up on the discussion in the Patreon-exclusive audio feed or by watching it on YouTube here. 2020-04-20 19:30:21 +0000 UTC
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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! On this episode, we talk about hitting our goal on Patreon and creating a new interview show, how the Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake is going, and whether we'll ever play D&D on a stream.
If you want to join the High Council and even call-in to MinnFAQs this Sunday at 6pm Central, you can support us at ...
2020-04-20 19:04:54 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the High Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or anything else you want to know. 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!
2020-04-20 16:39:55 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to everybody's amazing support on Patreon, we recently debuted our community screenshot review show called Photomode Snap! We just posted the second episode, and this is where things really start heating up with new submissions attempting to dethrone the previous episode's winners.
Thanks to everybody that submitted an amazing screenshot here on Patreon. We'll be doing special episodes dedicated to single games in the future, so let us know in the comments which games you want us...
2020-04-17 18:30:53 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! Thanks for your continued support and for keeping our indie train rolling here. On this episode, we talk about the rumors surrounding a remake of Resident Evil 4, share impressions of playing Riot's Valorant, and then are joined by Ana Diaz to talk about Persona 5 Royal and more. In the back half we open up the Minnbox and choose our favorite question for the iam8bit question ...
2020-04-15 23:21:57 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back! On Friday we're airing the second ever episode of Photomode Snap, our limited series where Kyle Hilliard and Ben Hanson review screenshots taken by the community from any game. On the first episode, we reviewed a handful of great screenshots from games like Spider-Man, Days Gone, and Super Mario Odyssey. This week the competition is heating up, as you're welcome to try to top
2020-04-15 17:09:19 +0000 UTC
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This is it, folks! Thanks to all of your wonderful support of MinnMax and your amazing minds leaving insightful comments, we're very happy to present The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake! THANK YOU!
Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Grant, and Ronnie dissect the first four chapters from Square-Enix's Final Fantasy VII Remake and read hundreds of your comments along the way. We don't spoil anything after Chapter 4 and don't reveal spoilers from the original 1997 game. ...
2020-04-15 15:23:18 +0000 UTC
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This week on the podcast, we're joined by Ana Diaz to talk about Persona 5 Royal and a ton of other stuff! 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.
You could do us a favor by subscribing to the audio version of the podcast on iTunes or your favorite po...
2020-04-14 17:51:41 +0000 UTC
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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!
On this week's episode we talk about preparing for the Final Fantasy VII Remake game club with Jeff Marchiafava! We also talk about the new intro theme for The MinnMax Show and a lot more.
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 ...
2020-04-13 18:53:17 +0000 UTC
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It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt. This week your options are...
Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories - We'd run around and try to survive in a city during and after an earthquake. A recent Steam review says "This is a slapped together, poorly performing, often times broken mess of poor writing and ou...
2020-04-13 18:32:57 +0000 UTC
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It's time, everybody! Pencils down! On Wednesday we're releasing The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake, our community-fueled game club that covers everything in the game up through Chapter 4 and we need your thoughts. We know there are a lot of new folks joining us for this game club, so thank you for your participation! This is going to be fun. For The Deepest Dive we're combining the cohorts...
2020-04-13 16:19:34 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody and welcome to another week here at MinnMax! At noon central we'll be going live and taking questions and wonderful prompts from you in the chat, so jump in and let us know what you want to know about!
If you can't make the stream, leave a question as a comment on this post and we'll answer it on the show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYC1TIREOEo
2020-04-13 15:35:11 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to another edition of Max Spoilers! Here's a big one: Kyle Hilliard and Suriel Vazquez discuss and spoil the ending of Half-Life Alyx and why it feels closer to a true Half-Life game than just a VR off-shoot. They also talk about what the ending means for the future of Valve and the Half-Life series as a whole.
If you prefer to watch the video version of the discussion, check it out here! https...
2020-04-09 18:38:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, we wrap our minds around the reveal of the PlayStation 5's controller, share spoiler-free impressions of Final Fantasy VII Remake and more. Then we're joined by Griffin Newman (Blank Check podcast, The Tick) and Graham Goring (LEGO City Undercover, LEGO The Force Awakens) to talk about the cultural impact of the LEGO games and the process of writing film parodies within video games. Then we open up the Minnbox! As always, if you ...
2020-04-08 23:36:02 +0000 UTC
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This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, 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.
During the main segment, we'll be talking about the Final Fantasy VII Remake and possibly featuring a guest o...
2020-04-07 17:04:28 +0000 UTC
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