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.
It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt. This week, you're choosing between the Resident Evil 3 remake and an early section (just after the demo) for Final Fantasy VII's remake.
Choose wisely... and may the best game win! The polls close at midnight tonight.
We’ll be going live at 1pm Central on Tuesday, we’ll see you then!
2020-04-06 18:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostEvery 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 the creation and reception of our new show Photomode Snap, talk about the satisfying documentary about the creation of Rise of Skywalker, and share spoiler-free impressions of playing the Final Fantasy VII Remake.
If you want to join the High Council and even call-in to MinnFAQs o...
2020-04-06 18:14:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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, Resident Evil 3, or the Final Fantasy VII Remake. 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!
2020-04-06 13:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
To cap off The Celebration of Final Fantasy VII, we're very excited to kick off our gigantic community game club for Final Fantasy VII Remake! We're breaking up the game into several sections and talking about each in as much detail as possible thanks to your comments and insight submitted here on Patreon.
The first episode will air on April 15th and covers everything in the game through...
2020-04-06 13:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your support, we hit our first goal with MinnMax's relaunch and created a new limited series called Photomode Snap. In this show, we review screenshots taken by the community (from any game) submitted here on Patreon. Kyle and I had a lot of fun creating this first episode, and we'll be creating a handful more.
If you think you can top the scores of any of the screenshots in this video with your own, or if you want to submit a screenshot from a game not yet represented, we'll ...
2020-04-04 15:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody! On this episode of The MinnMax Show podcast, the cohorts talk all about the Resident Evil 3 remake with series expert Alex Aniel and then rank the 3D Mario games with another special mystery guest! Then we answer dozens of great questions from the community.
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
2:35 - Resident Evil 3's development history
9:00 - Resident Evil 3 remake review discussion
40:45 - Resident Evil Resist...
2020-04-01 21:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostBen Hanson is joined by Ana Diaz, Sarah Podzorski, and Kelsey Lewin to talk the second week of playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch. We read comments from the community submitted on Patreon about catching the Stringfish, fun interactions between villagers, and the evolution of the Nook Miles system. This will be the last Animal Crossing: New Horizons game club discussion for now, but we might return in May to check in on the same crew.
You can follow the gu...
2020-04-01 15:08:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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.
Also, during the main section of the show we're planning on talking about Resident Evil 3, the best 3D Mario ...
2020-03-31 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a fun one. Back at the start of March, the MinnMax cohorts hosted a panel at VGMCon in Minneapolis and we recorded the full thing. We didn't expect listening to a crowd to feel so surreal, but it's nice to travel back to simpler and healthier times. We had a blast making the audience compete in a brutal but really fun video game spelling bee, where asking for the "game of origin" is crucial. There was also a very helpful volunteer for the convention wiping off the mic and stand in bet...
2020-03-31 15:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt. Here are the options this week...
Good Job - Revealed and released last Thursday for the Switch, this wacky physics-driven puzzle game developed and published by Nintendo hasn't been covered much. It should be a good time.
2020-03-30 18:07:55 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back, villagers! This Wednesday we're airing the second installment of our community game club on Animal Crossing: New Horizons with friend of the show Ana Diaz, localization expert/streamer Sarah Podzorski, and co-owner of Pink Gorilla Games and co-director of the Video Game History Fou...
2020-03-30 17:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to a very special episode of MinnFAQs, our weekly Q&A for some of MinnMax's biggest supporters. The last Sunday of the month we open up the phone lines and call up $20 supporters from Discord to let them ask whatever they'd like! On this episode, Ben Hanson talks about guesting on Kinda Funny, plays some trivia games, and a whole lot more.
Thanks again to our $20 supporters for both supporting us and calling in to the show! If YOU want to join us in future episodes of MinnFA...
2020-03-30 13:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello High Council! At 6pm Central, Ben Hanson will be kicking off the MinnFAQs stream and taking calls from Discord! If you want to jump on the line and talk about what you've been playing or ask any question you want, head on over to the MinnFAQs/High Council channel and let us know you're up for a call.
Talk to you soon!
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2020-03-29 22:11:40 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody! Thanks to your support and help spreading the word about MinnMax, we hit out goal on Patreon and will be creating a new series on YouTube called Photomode Snap! On this show, Kyle Hilliard and Ben Hanson will review community screenshots taken from any game and determine the best entries.
We'd love for YOU to leave a link in the comments to a screenshot that you took while playing a game, it doesn't need to be modified in photomode but that's welcome. Y...
2020-03-27 22:02:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis is it, the end of the saga. Ben Hanson is once again joined by Ross "the Star Wars guy" Pfund to watch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and talk all about the grand finale. Even though Hanson isn't the biggest fan of the movie, we understand that you don't want to listen to complaints for two hours so we definitely find positive things to talk about during th...
2020-03-27 19:44:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a wild week for the world and an intense week for games as we're joined by Matt Bertz to talk about Doom Eternal, Half-Life: Alyx, and a whole lot more. Thanks for listening to the podcast, and remember that you can find a whole lot more Animal Crossing discussion with The Deepest Dive. Thanks, everybody!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
4:40 - Doom Eternal
19:50 - Paper Beast
20:40 - Half-Life: Alyx
44:00 - Animal ...
2020-03-25 22:25:30 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to everybody's wonderful support and comments, we've got a big first episode of The Deepest Dive on Animal Crossing. Ben Hanson is joined by Ana Diaz, Sarah Podzorski, and Kelsey Lewin to talk about their first days with Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch. We read comments from the community about the best way to make some Bells, the curse of time travel, and whether Tom Nook is running a cult on this island.
The next post looking for YOUR feedback and comments ...
2020-03-25 16:04:32 +0000 UTC View PostMinnTrax 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.
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.
You could do us a favor by subscribing to the audio version of the podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast...
2020-03-24 18:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt. We're going to try streaming Half-Life: Alyx tonight, so that wasn't included in the list. Your choices for this week are...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - We can run around Hanson's island, but it might be a little dry...
2020-03-23 20:54:16 +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 show, we talk about troubleshooting tech, designing our new show Photomode Snap, and a whole lot more. Also, due to YouTube acting up, we ended up recording the discussion in the MinnMax studio so it's going to sound better than usual.
On Sunday, March 29th at 6pm we'll be streaming MinnFAQs live and t...
2020-03-23 18:25:49 +0000 UTC View Post
It's go time, villagers! This week we're kicking off The Deepest Dive on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and we need your thoughts, experiences, and insight to help fuel our discussion. Airing Wednesday, our community game club on Animal Crossing will feature friend of the show Ana Diaz, localization expert/streamer 2020-03-23 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 what we had for breakfast. 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!
2020-03-23 13:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostIt seems like a good time to connect with some other humans, so I hastily put out the call for folks in our MinnFAQs/High Council tier to see if anybody wanted to talk about the state of the world and how the virus is impacting people all over the world. It turns out there are a lot of people out there that are going through the same thing you are, so hopefully this bonus call-in show helps remind you that we're all in this together. This is history and it's going to get worse before it gets ...
2020-03-19 23:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everybody. I think we could all use more social contact these days, so we're going to try something experimental here. We'll be going live at 5pm Central for a streaming discussion about the Corona virus and how it has affected you, your family, your job, and your mental health. Let's unpack this historic moment together. We're pulling calls from the High Council channel in the Discord, please let me know on Discord if you aren't sure how to access it. I'll see you at 5pm Central!
The world is surreal, but we're still here to talk about games and have a good time. On this week's show, Imran Khan joins the cohorts to talk about the new details on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X as well as ways that we can all get better during the quarantine. Thanks for sticking with us, we're not going to stop creating fun content for you.
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
1:30 - What the corona virus means for MinnMax
8:2...
2020-03-19 01:39:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and Imran Khan. 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 favo...
2020-03-17 19:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostWith The Celebration Of Final Fantasy VII, we're counting down the days until the release of the Final Fantasy VII Remake by creating content dedicated to Ben Hanson's favorite game of all time. If you don't remember the 2006 film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, it's the canonical sequel to the game produced by Square-Enix and directed by Tetsuya Nomura. It wasn't very well-received wh...
2020-03-16 20:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostWith the relaunch of MinnMax last week, we mentioned that in the future we might shake things up on Tuesdays and stream a game that doesn't classically fit the mold for The Great GOTY Hunt. Well, this is one of those weeks. With two of the cohorts busy, Ben Hanson will be streaming games with Kyle remotely. So let us know what you want to see! Also, don't be surprised to see a bonus stream later that night....
We’ll be going live at 1pm Central on Tuesday, we’ll see you then!
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