On this big episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson is joined by Janet Garcia, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Jeff Marchiafava, Haley MacLean, and Sarah Podzorski to celebrate the year of gaming in 2023. We nominate, debate, and finalize winners for the categories of Best Thing, Dumbest Thing, Biggest News, The Ga...
2023-12-20 17:15:01 +0000 UTC
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We need your help this Wednesday at 7pm Central taking on the Second Wind community in the last episode of Trivia Tower for 2023! They recently launched their own Patreon and it's skyrocketing to the top of the charts, so we invited their communi...
2023-12-20 02:38:30 +0000 UTC
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In this MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson talked to the lead writer for the Mass Effect trilogy Mac Walters about why he left BioWare to create a new studio funded by NetEase called Untold Worlds. They talk about lessons from BioWare's g...
2023-12-18 17:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jeff Marchiafava, Janet Garcia, and Jacob Geller to share our final thoughts on new games in 2023 by talking about God of War's roguelike DLC, the Avatar game, and more. Oh, and Janet talks about playing Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown! Then we...
2023-12-14 00:57:14 +0000 UTC
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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Sarah Podzorski, and the community member who donated during Give To The Max to appear on the show: Haley De Boom!. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything el...
2023-12-12 20:55:01 +0000 UTC
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It's the final week for New Show Plus in 2023, so we're going all out with more options than ever.
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 abo...
2023-12-11 21:28:55 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Haley MacLean and special guest for a bit Jill Grodt from The Indie Informer talk about…
- Give To The Max charity stream update/thoughts
- Attending The Game Awards
- Debating the response to The Game Awards
- Day of...
2023-12-11 20:15:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! Thanks for directly supporting and creating a great year at MinnMax. Here's a roadmap for when we're recording MinnMax's Game of the Year debates...
- Saturday, December 16th at 11am Central - The MinnMax Awards (Category Winners)
- Monday, December 18th at 3pm Central - T...
2023-12-10 16:05:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! Thanks for directly supporting and creating a great year at MinnMax. Here's a roadmap for when we're recording MinnMax's Game of the Year debates...
- Saturday, December 16th at 11am Central - The MinnMax Awards (Category Winners)
- Monday, December 18th at 3pm Central - T...
2023-12-10 16:01:24 +0000 UTC
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Last weekend we streamed for 25-hour straight and thanks to your incredible support as a community, together we raised over $57,000 to help foster kids in Minneapolis with 100% going to the nonprofit Connections To Independence.
2023-12-09 18:42:38 +0000 UTC
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On this live episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and the former editor-in-chief of Easy Allies Brandon Jones to break down the big reveal of GTA 6 from Rockstar Games and all of our favorite announcements from Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards.
Check out Brandon Jones' book Wh...
2023-12-08 20:15:15 +0000 UTC
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We're recording a live episode of The MinnMax Show podcast this Friday at 11am Central on MinnMax's YouTube channel, so that we can recap The Game Awards from Thursday night. So it'll be in your feed later than usual!
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, an...
2023-12-05 19:40:29 +0000 UTC
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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.
2023-12-04 21:14:51 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, community manager Haley MacLean fills in for Ben Hanson since his voice is gone after the big Give To The Max charity stream this weekend where we raised over $57,000 for foster kids in Minneapolis via Connec...
2023-12-04 19:53:53 +0000 UTC
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Our gigantic 25-hour charity stream is happening this Saturday! Starting at 8am Central, we're streaming for 25 hours and raising money to help foster kids in Minneapolis by playing games, auctioning off rare prizes, and rotating through guests in the MinnMax S...
2023-11-30 19:37:09 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and special guest Emily Reese from the Level with Emily podcast! It's our favorite episode of the year, we're celebrating the very best game mus...
2023-11-29 19:17:21 +0000 UTC
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We're recording The MinnMax Show early this week, on Tuesday evening to be exact. So we need your questions early as well! This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and game music maestro Emily Re...
2023-11-28 00:03:33 +0000 UTC
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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.
2023-11-27 20:42:14 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, Haley MacLean and Ben Hanson talk about…
- The Give To The Max Charity Stream this Saturday
- All Auction Items for charity
- Fantasy Critic for 2024
- PAX Unplugged
- A ton of games from 2023 that need more love
Here's the full li...
2023-11-27 19:25:16 +0000 UTC
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While they were driving to Minnesota's largest candy store for New Show Plus (you can watch that adventure here) MinnMax's Leo Vader and the 2023-11-27 17:15:01 +0000 UTC
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It's time for Thanksgiving in America, so that means one thing and only one thing: Giving thanks to this wonderful year of gaming. MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava are once again joined by their former co-worker ...
2023-11-23 00:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Kyle Hilliard to set the scene for MinnMax's game of the year debate. We share games we think more people should play before we record The Two Tens and recommend games that deserve more love this year. Leave a co...
2023-11-22 19:42:41 +0000 UTC
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It's time for the final episode of our game club discussion about Alan Wake 2 from Remedy Entertainment. In this discussion, MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, Jeff Marchiafava, Haley MacLean, and Leo Vader talk about the game fr...
2023-11-22 19:15:01 +0000 UTC
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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and NoClip's Danny O'Dwyer. 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 w...
2023-11-21 16:01:34 +0000 UTC
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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.
2023-11-20 20:50:53 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of our bonus podcast Party Chat, Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, and Haley MacLean talk about...
- Janet being on the Remap Radio podcast
- Using MinnMax's money wisely
- How to expand Trivia Tower
- Success with our recent interviews
- The dream of hiring another full-time per...
2023-11-20 19:32:08 +0000 UTC
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In this exciting MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson talks to developers who used to work at Radical Entertainment and created the beloved open-world licensed game on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Gamecube called The Simpsons: Hit & Run...
2023-11-20 17:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at 12pm Central, we record our Patreon-exclusive podcast called Party Chat and we need your input! You can literally join the group discussion by clicking on the Stage in MinnMax’s Discord channel called MinnMax Party Chat. Raise your hand (there’s a button for that) whenever you want to talk and we’ll rota...
2023-11-20 15:41:10 +0000 UTC
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We're close to getting out of the dark place, we just need you to type one more thing: Your final thoughts on Alan Wake 2 for The Deepest Dive! We're collecting your comments on the final third of the game, so everything from both ch...
2023-11-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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This Tuesday at 7pm Central, we're hosting a fun round of game trivia and we want you to compete! The competition takes place in MinnMax's Discord, so you have to be a Patreon supporter to access it. Chris ...
2023-11-19 00:54:54 +0000 UTC
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