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The MinnMax Show - Split Fiction Review, Kingdom Come II, Tony Hawk 3+4

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, Haley MacLean, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava share their full thoughts on Hazelight's co-op follow-up to It Takes Two called Split Fiction, which has two authors platforming through the sci-fi and fantasy world from their books. Then we finally weigh in on the early hours of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, gush about Two Point Museum, and share some optimism for Lost Records: Bloom & Rage's second half. Then we answer wonderful questions s...

Bonus Pod - Flash Games That Raised Us

This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Jacob Geller to reflect on the Flash games of their childhood! Here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…

• what constitutes a Flash game

• the wild west of early Flash games

• their all-time favorites

• is Roblox just zoomer Flash games?

Here’s a link to the video version of the episode! ...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.

On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...

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2025-03-04 19:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!

Every week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.

So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!

2025-03-03 19:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post

The MinnMax Show - Monster Hunter Wilds, Yakuza Pirate, WB's Studio Slaughter

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, Jeff Marchiafava, and Sarah Podzorski talk about the huge release of Capcom's Monster Hunter Wild, follow-up on the fun to be had in Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and finally rave about The Roottrees Are Dead. Then we answer your wonderful questions here on Patreon!

Help support MinnMax's supporters!

https://www.iam8bit.com - 10% off with Promo Code: BEM...

127 Questions For Split Fiction's Josef Fares

MinnMax's Ben Hanson asks as many questions as possible to Hazelight's Josef Fares about their new co-op/split-screen game Split Fiction. Fares also answers questions about It Takes Two, A Way Out, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and (of course) Geoff Keighley and The Oscars. Split Fiction releases on March 6th.

We highly encourage you to watch the video version of this interview here, any help s...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Kesley Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.

On this week’s episode we’ll be talki...

Bonus Pod - 25 Years Of The Sims

This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Sarah Podzorski and Jacob's partner Annie to celebrate a quarter century of The Sims! Here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…

• background history of the game

• the E3 1999 lesbian kiss

• side Sims games

• fav childhood Sims stories

• Bella Goth lore

• Sims 2 music videos

• community board writing

• best expansion packs

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  2025-02-25 04:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!

Every week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.

So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!

2025-02-24 19:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Kelsey Goes Retro Shopping With Game Developers (Extended Version)

Hey everybody! Ben Hanson here debuting something new and fun from MinnMax. As you probably know, MinnMax's Kelsey Lewin co-owns several Pink Gorilla Games stores in Seattle and has a wild knowledge of game history and game prices. We thought it would be fun to invite game developers with a ton of experience in the industry by one of her stores as they shop for retro games and highlight their biggest inspirations and w...

Kelsey Goes Retro Shopping With Game Developers

Hey everybody! Ben Hanson here debuting something new and fun from MinnMax. As you probably know, MinnMax's Kelsey Lewin co-owns several Pink Gorilla Games stores in Seattle and has a wild knowledge of game history and game prices. We thought it would be fun to invite game developers with a ton of experience in the industry by one of her stores as they shop for retro games and highlight their biggest inspirations and w...

San Francisco! Come To MinnMax's GDC Community Meetup On Monday, March 17th

Do you live near San Francisco? Will you be attending GDC 2025? Then we'd love to say hello to you in person on Monday, March 17th at 7pm PT at the Tempest Bar!

What - MinnMax Community Meetup
Where - Tempest Bar
2940 431 Natoma St, San Francisco
(9 minutes from Moscone Center)
When - Monday, March 17th 7-10pm PT

For the second year in a row, we'll be hosting...

The MinnMax Show - Predicting Everything That'll Happen In 2025

MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Jeff Marchiafava, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard to look back at our predictions from last year and make bold, new predictions about games in 2025. From GTA 6 to the Nintendo Switch 2, we predict it all. Game Over. Then Leo Vader joins the show to talk Keep Driving, Aloft, A Game About Digging A Hole, Rift of the NecroDancer, and then we return to Obsidian's Avowed to get Janet's full thoughts. After that, we answer questions submitted here on Patreon!

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

Hey, before we jump into the rundown for this week's episode of The MinnMax Show - I wanted to give you all a huge thanks for the kind words about Kelsey, Janet, Haley, and Sarah's new podcast Pew Pew Bang (watch and share the video version here). Because of you all subscribing on your favorite podcast app (the show is not in the Patreon podcast feed), Pew Pew Bang has shot up the charts and is now the #1 trending video game...

Bonus Pod - What Makes A Great Choice In Games

This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by best friends Leo Vader and Cobysoft Joe to unpack the complex design problems that choices in games present, with community submissions and Joe's experience as a solo developer hoping to create meaningful choices without blowing the scope of his game out beyond what's feasible.

Here’s a link to the video version of this episode (including video-specific tim...

Subscribe To Our New Podcast: Pew Pew Bang

Subscribe to Pew Pew Bang on your favorite podcast app - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pew-pew-bang/id1796213059

Hey folks! Kelsey Lewin here taking over the Patreon for a moment to introduce something we’ve been working on…a new bi-weekly show from MinnMax ...

The MinnMax Show - Avowed Review, State Of Play Highlights, Saros Revealed

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Kyle Hilliard, and Haley MacLean rave about Obsidian's new RPG Avowed and Leo checks back in on the overlooked RPG Eternal Strands with JeffM. Then Janet Garcia joins the fun as we break down the best reveals and trailers from PlayStation's State of Play featuring the reveal of Housemarque's Returnal follow-up Saros, the first gameplay for Onimusha: Way of the Sword, a new Shinobi, and more. Then we dive into questions submitted by the commun...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, and Haley MacLean. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.

On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...

• State o...

  2025-02-11 20:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post

The Deepest Dive - Onimusha: Warlords Part 2

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, and Michael Huber from Easy Allies finish their discussion about Capcom's samurai classic from 2001 Onimusha: Warlords. In the second part of this game club, they talk about everything in the game from when Samanosuke is captured and you switch to playing as Kaede for an extended period of time. We also talk about the demon realm chall...

Bonus Pod - An Active Conversation About Idle Games

This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Leo Vader to discuss a genre that often doesn't get discussed: number-go-up, brain-go-off idle games. Does the genre not get discussed for good reason? You decide!

Here’s a link to the video version of this episode, including the gameplay of the idle games we're playing while talking. It wouldn't be an accurate conversation about the genre if we weren't playing ...

Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!

Every week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.

So check out your options below, and vote to choose the next episode we create for New Show Plus airing Tuesday on Twitch!

2025-02-10 19:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post

MinnMax Interview - How Meta Killed Ready At Dawn

MinnMax's Ben Hanson talks to the co-founder of Ready At Dawn Andrea Pessino about how the beloved studio behind Daxter and God of War on PSP, The Order: 1886, and Lone Echo was purchased by Meta and how it ultimately led to the end of the studio after 21 years. We also talk about canceled projects like a console action/adventure game published by Ubisoft, crunch, and frustrations of working with a ...

Submit Your Final Thoughts On Onimusha For The Deepest Dive

It's time to finish off our two-part game club on Capcom's 2001 classic Onimusha: Warlords. We're collecting your thoughts on the second half of the game in this shared Google Doc, please make sure your ONE comment is under 600 characters long....

The MinnMax Show - Our Most Anticipated Games Of 2025

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Haley MacLean run down their most-anticipated games of 2025 and share everybody else's picks as well from the full MinnMax crew. We talk about GTA6, whether Hollow Knight: Silksong is actually releasing this year, and predict the success of Monster Hunter Wild. Then we return to Citizen Sleeper 2's strengths before diving into community questions submitted on Patreon.

Help support MinnMax's supporters!

2025-02-06 02:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post

175 Rapid-Fire Questions About Obsidian's Avowed

You all requested it, so here's an audio-version of our new Rapid-Fire Interview! We do strongly recommend watching and sharing the video version though - https://youtu.be/dAtStowg2Rk

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Avowed game director Carrie Patel about Obsidian's new RPG that takes place in the world from Pillars of Eterni...

Bonus Pod - Ranking Every Studio Ghibli Film

This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Jacob Geller and Kyle Hilliard to take some of the most beautiful, sincere art ever made and give it a letter grade like it's some math homework!

Here’s a link to the video version of this episode, including the onscreen tier list as they put it together.

Thanks so much for supporting and unlocking Bonus Pod. You can call into future episodes of Bonus Pod ...

Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast

This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Haley MacLean. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.

On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...

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2025-02-04 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

The Deepest Dive - Onimusha: Warlords

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by Easy Allies' Michael Huber for the first half of a game club discussion covering Capcom's 2001 classic Onimusha: Warlords for the PlayStation 2. We talk about the tank controls, boss fights, horrific water slide puzzle, and what made this game so impressive back in the day. We'll be collecting your thoughts on the seco...

Cohort Hootenanny - Celebrities And Scrapped Rapid-Fire Questions

Thanks to Ted Ryser in the MinnMax community for jumping up to the highest tier, a Cohort Hootenanny has been unlocked! We gathered together Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Haley MacLean, Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, and Leo Vader for an emergency, off-the-cuff bonus podcast. In this discussion, we talk about scheduling for GDC, meeting celebrities, Funko Fusion's legacy, an...

Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!

Every week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon vote to choose a new show for us to create, or to continue an older show from a previous week. If you missed the reveal, you can learn more about the format in this quick video.

This week we're trying a little something new. Certain shows like Thirst Council have so much heat behind them that they're hard to dethrone, but should they ev...