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: Deliv...
2025-03-06 04:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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...
2025-03-05 01:54:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 b...
2025-03-04 19:07:58 +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...
2025-03-03 19:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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2025-02-27 00:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Kei...
2025-02-26 19:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 o...
2025-02-25 19:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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 sto...
2025-02-25 04:03:42 +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...
2025-02-24 19:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 gam...
2025-02-24 17:13:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 gam...
2025-02-24 17:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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,...
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 t...
2025-02-19 20:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey, 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...
2025-02-18 18:50:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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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 Ret...
2025-02-13 14:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 ...
2025-02-11 20:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2025-02-11 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2025-02-10 22:48:16 +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...
2025-02-10 19:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2025-02-10 17:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2025-02-07 16:12:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Sleep...
2025-02-06 02:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2025-02-05 19:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 on...
2025-02-05 01:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 b...
2025-02-04 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 co...
2025-02-04 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Va...
2025-02-03 19:52:41 +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.
This week ...
2025-02-03 19:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post