Hello people of Hyrule, it's time to submit your thoughts on the opening areas of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for The Deepest Dive! In this first discussion we're covering the game's starting area and Jabul Waters, please don't spoil anything...
2024-09-29 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and Haley MacLean unpack all of their favorite reveals and trailers from Sony's State of Play, especially Sucker Punch's fantastic reveal of the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima called Ghost of Yotei. We debate whether the world could use a PlayStation 5 remaster of Horizon Zero Dawn b...
2024-09-25 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The votes are in, so we're tackling The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for The Deepest Dive! We'd love to have you play along and contribute to MinnMax's two-part game club discussion by submitting your thoughts for us to read on-air. For this series, Ben Hanson will be joined by Kelsey Lewin, Haley MacLean, and Jeff Marchiaf...
2024-09-25 14:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostDue to schedules and travel, we're recording The MinnMax Show on Tuesday at 7pm Central this week and releasing it at the normal times. With Sony's State of Play also happening on Tuesday at 5pm Central (we'll be streaming our reactions), we won't have a poll for a new episode of New Show Plus this week BUT on Wednesday we'll be airing a New Sho...
2024-09-23 20:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Bonus Pod, guest host Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader for a behind-the-scenes look at MinnMax as a business. We take a ton of community questions and talk about...
MinnMax Studio update
Podcast ad placement
How Rapid-Fire has boosted our YouTube channel
Our Patreon numbers...
2024-09-23 17:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews co-founder and creative director of FuzzyBot Max Spielberg and Lynked: Banner of the Spark's art director Eric Kozlowsky about their game that they describe as an "arcade-inspired co-op adventure that blends hack and sla...
2024-09-23 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostAt MinnMax we like to create the best, most thorough discussions about games in a multi-part game club discussion called The Deepest Dive.
We just wrapped up 2024-09-19 14:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and Easy Allies' Michael Huber talk about Capcom's Dead Rising: Deluxe Remaster and a bit about Black Myth: Wukong before Kelsey Lewin joins us to celebrate Visions of Mana. Then we all talk about The Plucky Squire, Peg...
2024-09-19 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, Leo Vader, and Charles Harte. 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 gr...
2024-09-17 19:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In this second and final game club discussion, Alex Van Aken, Charles Harte, Jacob Geller, and Leo Vader share their full thoughts on 2008's Mirror's Edge from the mission New Eden through the ending. They talk about how much stuff they forgot happened...
2024-09-17 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Content Warning - This episode contains some sexual language when talking about The Jackbox Naughty Pack.
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Sarah Podzorski and Leo Vader and here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…
· Leo's recent Vegas trip!
· Jackbox Naughty Pack Review
· Why Traveller...
2024-09-16 23:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostEvery 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 o...
2024-09-16 18:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Kelsey Lewin and Ben Hanson talk to Doom's designer John Romero and Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner about their lifelong passion for preserving video game history and how so much is being lost every day. They beg other developers to s...
2024-09-16 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kelsey Lewin and Ben Hanson will be in Portland, Oregon at the end of September and we'd love to meet and thank some of you in person. We're on a top secret mission there for some fun content, and Kelsey will also have a booth for her 2024-09-14 13:55:58 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to submit your final thoughts on Mirror's Edge for The Deepest Dive! In this second and final discussion, we're covering everything in DICE's 2008 classic after the mission called Ropeburn. You can get caught up on everything so far in the fir...
2024-09-13 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Haley MacLean, Leo Vader, and Kyle Hilliard talk about the PS5 Pro reveal before turning to happier things like our continued love of Astro Bot. Then we have a ton of good games to talk about, with Leo raving about Wild Bastards, everybody being impressed by the co-op f...
2024-09-12 07:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Kyle Hilliard are joined by Bryan Vore and Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund to unpack all of their thoughts on Tim Burton's sequel to the 1988 classic Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. We talk about Michael Keaton's performance, how this ...
2024-09-11 23:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Haley MacLean, Leo Vader, and Jacob Geller. 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 g...
2024-09-10 17:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Leo Vader and Jacob Geller for a thorough discussion about 2015's The Beginner's Guide - which is Jacob's favorite game of all time. This episode is like a shallow Deepest Dive... or ...
2024-09-09 21:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostEvery 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 o...
2024-09-09 18:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Jacob Geller, Leo Vader, and video editor Charles Harte are joined by special guest host Alex Van Aken (creator of Viewport, formerly of Game Informer) as they kick off a two-part game club discussion of DICE's 2008 first-person classic Mirro...
2024-09-09 16:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to prove you know a thing or two about games by competing in Trivia Tower this Monday, September 9th at 8:30pm Central! Ben Hanson is hosting this time around and will be joined by the amazing Alanah Pearce, who you might know from her 2024-09-06 17:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to submit your thoughts on Mirror's Edge for The Deepest Dive! We hope you've been playing the 2008 classic along with us and can help fuel our two-part game club discussion. For the first episode, we're covering everything in the game up thro...
2024-09-06 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava share their spoiler-free review for Astro Bot on the PlayStation 5 before nose-diving into a discussion about the failure of PlayStation's first-person hero shooter Concord and how it was abruptly pulled from stores after less than two weeks. Then we talk abou...
2024-09-05 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Every week we let Backstage Pass-tier folks on Patreon vote for New Show Plus, here's the audio-only version of this week's winner. For the second episode of Micro RPG, Huge Fun, Charles Harte takes the reigns once again and hosts a simple tabletop ses...
2024-09-04 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
FYI: Due to an embargo, we can't share an early version of the podcast this Wednesday. The ad-free version of the show will be up as soon as possible on Thursday.
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Janet Garcia. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a qu...
2024-09-03 19:07:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Marcus Stewart and here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…
Little Nightmares 3
Directive 8020
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
The First Berserker: Khazan
How ...
2024-09-02 20:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 o...
2024-09-02 18:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
You all voted for it here on Patreon, so we're officially kicking off The Deepest Dive on Mirror's Edge. It's the 28th game we've tackled for the series so far! Join Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, 2024-08-29 19:20:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, Haley MacLean, and special guest Marcus Stewart to talk about Star Wars Outlaws, Valve's new game Deadlock, what Marcus played at Gamescom, and more!
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