Ben Hanson and Kyle Hilliard just read DC's Batman: The Court of Owls for the first time and wanted to have a spoiler-filled discussion about Scott Snyder's beloved story from 2012 that rumors indicate might be influencing the next Batman game from Warner Bros. Montreal. We know it's an unconventional choice for a spoilercast, but let us know what you think!
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Good morning, everybody! Coming up at noon Central, I'll be streaming and answering any and all of your questions about my past and MinnMax's future. If you can't make the stream, leave a comment below with your question and we'll answer it on the show! See you then!
2020-01-20 15:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe finally did it. We broke the streak and created a Max Spoilers discussion that somehow isn't about Star Wars! If you've finished Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding or just want to know everything that happens in the game, check out Kyle Hilliard and Suriel Vazquez's big discussion and let us know what you think in the comments. Thanks, everybody!
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Update: Thanks for tuning in! The stream is over but you can watch the full archive above or right here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTq9gZa7FsU&feature=youtu.be
Hello lovely MinnMax supporters! We're back with our second tabletop stream, this time (in honor of the Discord's emoji obsession) we'll be streaming Cash 'N Guns! Join us at 8pm Central ...
2020-01-17 00:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson and the computer-loving cohorts break down their most anticipated games of 2020. As Kyle puts it, these are the five games that we would grab first if they were all stacked in front of us. Then we answer some wonderful questions from you all on Patreon, thanks for leaving us so many great questions and comments every week!
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2020-01-16 00:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostHelp make this week's episode of The MinnMax Show podcast better by submitting a great insight, comment, or question below! On this week's episode we have the full crew of computer loving cohorts, with Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez.
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2020-01-14 21:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday I streamed an exclusive Q&A with MinnMax's $20 supporters, and now here's the audio version! We cover a lot of ground on this episode, from charity planning to debating fruit. Just a reminder, we'll have our first ever call-in episode of MinnFAQs on Sunday, January 26th! So if you want to jump on a mic and ask me anything you like, please consider supporting MinnMax at the $20 tier this month. Thanks, everybody!
2020-01-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn a world before Kakarot himself rings in the onslaught of game releases in 2020, we're left in the pure, gameless abyss... but we have plenty of early access games to play! Take a look at your options below, and let us know what you want us to stream on Tuesday at 1pm Central. Your options are Supergiant's Hades, Klei's Griftlands, GTFO, or the demo for the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon remake!
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At noon Central today I'll be going live answering your questions about life, the universe, and everything. Or maybe just fun stuff about games and the future of MinnMax. If you can't tune in live, leave a question as a comment and I'll answer it on the show! Thanks!
2020-01-13 14:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! Here's a funky bonus thing that Kyle Hilliard and I put together over on MinnMax's YouTube channel, but we wanted to make it available as a quick podcast as well. Check it out to hear us talk about a rare interview from Family Computer Magazine in 1992 where Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) talks to Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and explains his concept for a video game that he was interested in making. Later Studio Ghibli was involved in the prod...
2020-01-10 21:03:54 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're a supporter of MinnMax, there's a good chance you know Imran Khan. Imran was Game Informer's senior news editor for several years, working out of his house in San Francisco and occasionally Skyping in to The Game Informer Show podcast. In this conversation, Ben Hanson talks to Imran about his life since leaving Game Informer and what it's like to cohost Kinda Funny Games Daily and much more. We hope you enjoy the conversation! Be sure to send some kind words over to2020-01-10 17:01:24 +0000 UTC View Post
On January 22nd, we're kicking off our community game club discussion on one of the greatest games of all time: Chrono Trigger! Please play along with us (the first discussion will cover everything up to when you reach the End of Time after the future section) and we'll have a Patreon post right here on January 20th asking you to leave a comment with your super specific thoughts on the game. We want you to dive in deep and write about your favorite moment, weapon, line of dia...
2020-01-09 20:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostBen Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, and Ross (the Star Wars guy) Pfund talk about their favorite moments from the first season of The Mandalorian on Disney Plus, the state of Star Wars overall, and try to predict Boba Fett's appearance in the second season. Also, we're terribly sorry that the first FOUR installments of Max Spoilers are all about Star Wars... what a weird fLuke. We hope you enjoy the discussion!
2020-01-09 19:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! Thanks for supporting us so far, we're excited to dive into the new year with you all. On this episode, we kick off the new year by announcing the next installment of The Deepest Dive community game club that is fueled by your comments and will be airing on January 22nd. Then we run down a gigantic list of games that we played and enjoyed over the holiday break before making some very bold predictions for the game industry in 2020. We also read a ton of commu...
2020-01-09 00:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, world! Tomorrow we're recording the first episode of The MinnMax Show for 2020 and need your wonderful questions, comments, games to help make it better! Leave a comment below and there's a very good chance I'll answer it alongside Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez on this week's episode of the podcast!
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2020-01-07 21:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone and welcome to the new year! We streamed MinnFAQs at a different time this week for $20 supporters so we have some new voices in the chat to help volley questions about the year ahead for MinnMax. In this installment, we talk about YouTube thumbnails, MinnMax's logo, and how we choose the next Deepest Dive. At the end of the month, we'll have a live call-in episode of MinnFAQs and we'd love to have you join us!
2020-01-07 15:34:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year, everybody! Over the break we posted a poll and it looked like most folks preferred 6pm Central for the MinnFAQs stream, so we're giving it a try. We'll kick off the stream then, so get ready with your hottest questions about the holiday break or the year ahead for MinnMax! If you can't make the stream, feel free to leave a question on Patreon and I'll try to answer it out of the gate. See you soon!
2020-01-06 22:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody! With our Great GOTY Hunt streams, every Tuesday we want to take a look at the biggest new releases and discuss their eligibility as a potential game of the year. We love the format, but this will be the most challenging stream of the year...
Since there aren't any big releases out yet, we can either check out a handful of random small games on Steam or look at games that will have console or significant ports in 2020. We'll be streaming at 1pm Central on Tuesday, see yo...
2020-01-06 20:04:50 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson talks to Dan Ryckert about leaving Giant Bomb and the games press in general for (what's now revealed to be) the WWE to create podcasts. They talk about their time at Game Informer together and what Dan has learned about staying mentally healthy while being such a strong personality in the game industry.
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2020-01-04 14:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostEvery Monday since the launch of MinnMax, I (Ben Hanson) stream for an hour and answer deep cut/inside baseball questions from lovely $20 Patreon supporters. Occasionally we have a special guest as well! We then release the audio version the following day in the exclusive audio feed for $5 supporters.
For the new year, I want to get a better sense of when the best time would be for folks to join the stream and volley questions. So vote in the poll when you'd prefer for me to st...
We cannot thank you all enough for putting wind in our sails and creating MinnMax this year. It took one hell of a community to make an independent outlet like this fully sustainable, thanks for showing up. Now we need to return the favor by keeping this party rolling. Our goal is to convert the support from the community into as much joy as possible throughout your week. Let us know in the comments or in the poll what you're most excited about seeing from MinnMax in 2020. We'll have fun cont...
2019-12-30 18:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn this Patreon exclusive, MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Game Informer's former managing editor Matt Bertz talk about his journey through the game industry, how he landed as vice president of games for Magid, and offers advice both on making connections in the industry and writing features on games. You can listen to the audio in the exclusive audio feed or watch the video version below. We hope you enjoy the chat!
Over the last two weeks on The MinnMax Show podcast, we've aired our full debates over the winners of 11 categories and also the official ranking for our favorites games of 2019. Ranking ten wasn't enough and ranking fifty was too much, so we settled on a list of 20 games... or "two tens", if y...
2019-12-26 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, MinnMax supporters! You've been so generous with your support this year, so we wanted to say thanks by releasing an episode over the holidays. On this very special episode, we're reunited with both Elise Favis and Javy Gwaltney as we call up wonderful community members in the exclusive Discord to learn which games we overlooked this year. If you enjoy this episode, please consider sharing it with a friend once it goes public! We'll be taking next week off, but there will be s...
2019-12-25 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's MinnFAQs, we have some fresh questions from new $50 supporters on Patreon and talk about the holidays break, recording a community-focused episode of The MinnMax Show podcast, and our plans for new merch and a visual overhaul of MinnMax. We'll be taking next week off, but there will still be content pumping out on the YouTube channel!
Thanks so much for a wonderful year, everybody!
2019-12-24 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, everybody! We've got an extra early stream coming to you at 9am Central, so you can leave your question here or jump over to YouTube and fire away!
2019-12-22 14:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostWe're sorry that so many of our spoiler-filled conversations so far at MinnMax have been about Star Wars, but there's a lot to unpack here. Immediately after seeing the final film in the Skywalker saga, I rushed home to meet Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund and attempt to unpack all of our thoughts. Don't listen to this if you haven't seen the film, it's nothing but spoilers! If you enjoy this conversation, don'...
2019-12-21 06:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostWe're pulling questions and comments early for next week's episode of The MinnMax Show podcast. This episode will focus on the community fixing our game of the year list, we'll be hearing folks out and calling them up from a channel in the Discord on Saturday at 11am Central. So if you have specific complaints or thoughts on the game of the year debate, that's the place to share them. As for this post, we're looking for some good general questions/comments for our panel featuring Jeff Marchia...
2019-12-20 15:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the biggest show of the year! Thanks to YOUR generous support on Patreon, we have a cozy studio to record our full debate about the game of the year for 2019. On this episode, we build up and then whittle down a list of great games from 2019 to create the official ranking for MinnMax as an outlet. We hope you enjoy the discussion! If you don't like our list, you'll have a chance to fix it on this Saturday in the official MinnMax Discord. We'll be calling in community members to sha...
2019-12-18 23:49:19 +0000 UTC View PostNow's your chance to make the show better! And not just any show, our big show with the full game of the year debate! Leave a question/comment/game as a comment on this Patreon post and there's a good chance we'll read it on this week's episode of The MinnMax Show podcast! This week we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez.
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