For Kyle Bosman's final New Show Plus of his guest cohortship, he gathers MinnMax's Janet Garcia, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava and extracts their most divisive opinions to be looked back on one year from today. Will they be remembered with scorn or p...
2025-07-30 16:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! Due to Ben traveling for a preview event, the podcast will be recorded live on YouTube this Thursday at 3pm Central. So there won't be early access on Wednesday, thanks for your patience!
It's a busy time here at MinnMax, with our community meetup happening at 2025-07-29 21:03:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Leo Vader for a grab bag of big fun topics, including...
Leo's newest marriage
wedding planning
Sony suing Tencent for their suspiciously Horizon-like MMO (starts at 28:51)
Leo finally getting into Death Stranding (starts at 46:10)<...
2025-07-29 00:33:56 +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 out yo...
2025-07-28 19:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Jacob Geller, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman pile in to unpack our thoughts on Donkey Kong Bananza for the Nintendo Switch 2. Then we talk about Shadow Labyrinth, the new dark and atmospheric Pac-Man metroidvania from Bandai Namco and how to keep arcade franchises a...
2025-07-24 01:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This week for New Show Plus, MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Leo Vader transform into professors along with guest cohort Kyle Bosman and assign letter grades to the game industry's biggest publishers... and Game Mill Entertainment. How does Nintendo grade vers...
2025-07-23 16:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Bosman, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Kelsey Lewin, 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 favorit...
2025-07-22 19:27:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Sarah Podzorski to unload about their obsession with horse girl racing gacha Uma Musume Pretty Derby. Topics include...
its sudden popularity boom
game strategies
the real life horses that inspired the characters
se...
2025-07-21 23:23:44 +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.
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2025-07-21 18:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Ralph AKA Skill Up about his rise to YouTube success and how he's using that community to launch a new video game site: thisweekinvideogames.com. Yo...
2025-07-21 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! We're getting closer to MinnMax's summer community meetup happening in Minneapolis at Utepils Brewing on Saturday, August 9th from 12-5pm and we'd love to get a ba...
2025-07-18 16:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman debate the 5 greatest 3D platformers of all time. Which five games will we let into the club? Will any of them be hit by a poison shuriken? As we prepare to dive into Donkey Kong Bananza on the Nintendo Switch 2, we look back on the classics like Super Mario 64, Astr...
2025-07-17 01:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the audio version of this week's New Show Plus winner! MinnMax's Ben Hanson and guest cohort Kyle Bosman assign reviews to video game publishers, randomizing the list for where to start. How does Xbox score compared to Square-Enix? How much does...
2025-07-16 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you missed it, our dear old friend Suriel Vazquez came by the MinnMax Studio to go up against Ben in Marvel vs Capcom 2... Ben tried to prove that he is a "fight stick" guy. https://youtu.be/0Cm5UZeBUeM
We also just did a spoilercast for Superman! 2025-07-15 17:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman are joined by Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund, Bryan Vore, and Game Informer's Charles Harte to review and unpack spoilers for James Gunn's Superman from 2025. We talk...
2025-07-15 16:15:03 +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 out yo...
2025-07-14 20:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Sarah Podzorski, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman share their picks for the game of the summer. Is it Mario Kart World? Death Stranding 2? Tamagotchi Plaza for some reason? Then we answer your wonderful questions submitted here on Patreon!
Get a PS5 code for the great game Despelote if you support MinnMax on...
2025-07-09 22:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe won't get to it in time for the podcast, but we'll be reacting live to the State of Play showing off gameplay for Ghost of Yotei this Thursday at 4pm Central on YouTube. Also, in case you missed it, here's our Max Spoilers for Jurassic World Rebirth - https://youtu.be/Ou6E7P3BQU...
2025-07-08 17:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by former MinnMax cohort Ana Diaz and here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…
Puzzle game mechanics
Gatcha game ethics
Ana's current games she's playing
Ana's games she's looking forward to
Pokemon rants
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Jacob Geller are joined by Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund and our guest cohort for the month Kyle Bosman to unpack the seventh movie in the Jurassic Park series. In this spoilercast we talk about Scarlett Johansson's Zora Bennet...
2025-07-07 22:07:17 +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.
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2025-07-07 17:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, and Haley MacLean are joined by MinnMax's guest cohort for the month of July: Kyle Bosman! We run through every game confirmed for a 2025 release and load our six-shooters for a deadly duel to see who gets to claim which game. We also talk about Microsoft's brutal layoffs and studio closures in t...
2025-07-03 05:11:55 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, and Jeff Marchiafava are joined by July's guest cohort Kyle Bosman (Delayed Input, formerly of Easy Alli...
2025-07-02 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! We're happy to reveal that for the month of July we'll be joined by Kyle Bosman as a Guest Cohort! The same way we had Alanah Pearce join us in January, Kyle Bosman will be appearing on The MinnMax Show and New Show Plus throughout the full month - all thanks to your support. You might know Kyle from his time at Easy Allies, or
This week on Bonus Pod, Ben Hanson fills in for Haley MacLean (who will be back next week) and talks to Kelsey Lewin about...
Kelsey's new Borzoi dog named Piroshky
Metal Jesus Rocks' new video on a huge trade-in to Kelsey's...
2025-06-30 20:30:12 +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 out yo...
2025-06-30 18:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In this MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson speaks to former editor-in-chief of Polygon Chris Plante about the beloved site's sale to Valnet and how that freed him to follow his own passion: creating an 2025-06-30 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We've hit 300 episodes of The MinnMax Show and cannot thank you enough for sharing the show! MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and Haley MacLean to unpack our spoiler-free thoughts on Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding 2 (codes provided by PlayStation). Then Jacob Geller raves about the DLC called Lies of P: Overture bef...
2025-06-26 02:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostDon't miss the season finale of Pew Pew Bang, subscribe to it in your favorite podcast app and help spread the word! Charles Harte joins on the big episode for some tabletop role-playing fun! https://youtu.be/lq4ridyhIzw
This week for community questions on the podcast, w...
2025-06-24 17:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Jacob Geller to talk about...
a lil Death Stranding 2 convo tease
Summer Game Fest vs GDC
Jacob's new book release! (How a Game Lives)
6 more games Jacob played at Summer Game Fest
will we play Judas? that Ken Levine ...
2025-06-23 22:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post