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 question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose ou...
2024-02-06 18:24:07 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to Bonus Pod, thanks for unlocking this every week! On this week's episode, Haley MacLean is joined by Sarah Podzorski to unpack their first video game crushes and for Sarah to explain her obsession with GTAV role-playing servers. Then we take calls from folks at the MinnMax Council ...
2024-02-06 00:47:56 +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 in2024-02-05 20:42:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and Janet Garcia unpack the highlights from Sony's big State of Play where they showed new trailers for Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Rise of the Ronin, Silent Hill 2, Metro in VR, and a ton more...
2024-02-01 03:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on a joke from The MinnMax Show last week while talking about our high school yearbooks, the winner for the New Show Plus poll ended up being Ben Hanson calling up an old high school cl...
2024-01-31 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Jacob Geller, and special guest Tim Schafer from Double Fine. 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...
2024-01-30 20:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to a new episode of Bonus Pod! On this week's episode, Haley MacLean is joined by Kelsey Lewin to talk about the ongoing legal lessons from Palworld dominating the sales charts and then Haley picks Kelsey's brain about the best entry point for the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series. Thanks for u...
2024-01-30 01:36:25 +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 in2024-01-29 19:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Things are changing with Trivia Tower, in a good way. This Monday, January 29th at 7pm Central marks the first episode hosted by Michael Huber from 2024-01-27 23:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and special guest Michael Huber from Easy Allies (who is hosting Monday's episode of Trivia Tower) to talk about Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, The Last of Us Part 2 Remas...
2024-01-25 01:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, and Michael Huber from Easy Allies! 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 comm...
2024-01-23 23:07:49 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to a new episode of Bonus Pod, our Patreon-exclusive podcast airing every week. On today's episode, Haley MacLean is joined by Game Informer associate editor (and MinnMax video editor) Charles Harte to talk about the Apollo Justice trilogy and they also dive into the murky legal world of ...
2024-01-23 14:20:17 +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 in2024-01-22 19:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and Ross Pfund share their full thoughts on God of War Ragnarok's free roguelike DLC Valhalla and all of its fascinating story moments. They talk about what the re...
2024-01-22 17:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, and Haley MacLean unpack the best moments and highlights from Microsoft's Developer Direct for January of 2024. They talk about the new gameplay shown for Obsidian's Avowed, the release date for Hellblade II, and the extended first real look a...
2024-01-19 01:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, 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 ou...
2024-01-16 21:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello hello! In case you missed the Patreon post (which you can click here to read), we're making some changes to MinnMax in 2024. We're saying goodbye to our weekly bonus podcast Party Chat, or, to be ...
2024-01-16 00:18:12 +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 in2024-01-15 18:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody, Ben Hanson here. Thanks to your support on Patreon and help sharing our shows online, MinnMax is continuing to grow. That has allowed us to bring on new folks like community manager Haley MacLean in 2023, and it allows for even more positive changes heading into 2024. A lot of th...
2024-01-15 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On the first episode for 2024, Ben Hanson is joined by Sarah Podzorski, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and Leo Vader to talk about the surprising games we played over holiday break and run down the MinnMax community's "objective" ranking of the best games of 2023. ...
2024-01-11 02:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, 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...
2024-01-09 17:25:17 +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 in2024-01-08 21:07:22 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, Ben Hanson and Haley MacLean talk about…
- Our holiday breaks
- Visiting Puerto Rico
- The "objective" Two Tens ranking
- Starfield's ending
- MinnMax content survey results
- How to keep MinnMax growi...
2024-01-08 19:40:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis is it. It's time for the grand finale for MinnMax's Game of the Year debate, which we call The Two Tens. Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Jeff Marchiafava, Haley MacLean, and Sarah Podzorski to finalize the correct order for the 20 b...
2024-01-03 17:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Directly because of your support on Patreon and feedback in the Discord and beyond, 2023 was MinnMax's best year yet. We cannot thank you enough for supporting independent games media, we're building this thing together. When you see me (Ben Hanson) typing something during a recording, I'm likely...
2023-12-31 17:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Directly because of your support on Patreon and feedback in the Discord and beyond, 2023 was MinnMax's best year yet. We cannot thank you enough for supporting independent games media, we're building this thing together. When you see me (Ben Hanson) typing something during a recording, I'm likely...
2023-12-31 17:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We hope you're not sick of celebrating 2023's amazing games yet, because here is everybody's Top 10! We gathered up lists from cohorts, contributors, and friends of the show to give you all a better idea...
2023-12-29 15:47:32 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the start of The Two Tens: MinnMax's big Game of the Year debate! Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Jeff Marchiafava, Haley MacLean, and Sarah Podzorski to lock down the greatest games of 2023. We start out by building the full ...
2023-12-27 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Perhaps you've heard us read a list of "Game Champions" at the end of The MinnMax Show podcast. Here's what that is: If you're a $50 supporter of MinnMax (even just for one month), you can choose any gam...
2023-12-26 17:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everybody! In the interest of "getting better", we've put together a quick survey to give us a better idea of where we'r...
2023-12-23 15:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post