On this week’s episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast Party Chat, we talk about…
- The games included with the new versions of PlayStation Plus
- Chibi-Robo in retrospect
- Trivia Tower planning
If you want to join the Party Chat every single week and talk to us about what you’ve been playing, ...
2022-05-16 18:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In this new Interview, Ben Hanson is joined by MinnMax Contributor Jacob Geller to dive into the secrets of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe with the game's director William Pugh and art director Dominik Johann from Crows, Crows, Cr...
2022-05-16 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-05-16 15:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post
As you might know, if you support MinnMax at the $50 tier you become a Game Champion and can choose any game under the sun. Last month we kicked off The Game Championship, which took every game chosen by our $50 supporters and pitted...
2022-05-13 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard unpack the state of the game industry and PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo's "console war". We also run down the indie game highlights from Nintendo's Indie World event and share our full thoughts on the new gamepla...
2022-05-11 21:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, we're talking about the state of the "console wars" on this week's episode of the podcast. So please submit a comment with your thoughts on this generation so far, especially if your primary console of choice has shifted in the last year or so.
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have ...
2022-05-10 18:15:01 +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. 2022-05-09 20:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast Party Chat, Janet Garcia and Ben Hanson talk to the community about…
- Vampire Survivors
- Home repair
- How developers port games to Switch
- Taxes
- Nicknames
And here's a link to the game Charles McGregor mentions on the show! <...
2022-05-09 18:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In the new MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson speaks with Cecil Kim (studio art director for Thatgamecompany) and Wevr's director/executive producer Jake Rowell about their time working on Squaresoft's Final Fantasy 9. They talk about the...
2022-05-09 16:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-05-09 14:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by our kings of dork media Ross Pfund and Bryan Vore to unpack everything wild and great about Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In this big spoilercast, we talk about director Sam R...
2022-05-06 17:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, Jeff Marchiafava, and Leo Vader talk about the biggest games on their backlog and what it was like to finally get around to playing it. We talk about Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Gravity Rush 2, and the origina...
2022-05-04 20:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This is it everybody, we're at the end of time. In the final installment of our gigantic game club discussion on Chrono Cross from Squaresoft, MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Joe Juba, and IGN's news reporter Rebekah Valentine c...
2022-05-04 20:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, 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 a grea...
2022-05-03 19:16:01 +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. 2022-05-02 19:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast Party Chat, we talk about…
- Ben's bachelor party
- Embracer Group buying out Square-Enix's western studios
- What we're watching
- YouTube hits for kids
- Lego Dimensions
If you want to join the Party Chat every single week and ta...
2022-05-02 18:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-05-02 15:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to submit your comment for the final section of Chrono Cross! Even if you haven't finished the game, feel free to submit a comment on what you've played so far. For this discussion, we're covering everything in the game fro...
2022-05-02 15:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Get ready for an all-Nintendo episode of Trivia Tower happening at 7:30pm Central tonight, April 28th! We'll be joined by former Nintendo employees/hosts of Nintendo Minute Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang from The Kit & Krysta Podcast 2022-04-28 15:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to a special episode of The MinnMax Show podcast! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski to answer as many questions from the community as we can. We devoted the full episode to your questions submitted over on Patreon! Let us know ...
2022-04-27 22:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In the third part of this gigantic game club discussion on Chrono Cross from Squaresoft, MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Joe Juba, and IGN's news reporter Rebekah Valentine cover everything in the game from when a "big cha...
2022-04-27 20:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s just ONE more thing… MinnMax Contributor Joe Juba (The Deepest Dive, The MinnMax Show) will talk The Mountain Goats and Silver Jews with Matt on this week’s episode of CrossFade! Now’s the time to ask Joe those burning questions about his music tastes. Or about yours. Or about anything under the sun!
Thi...
2022-04-27 17:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have the full crew of Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Janet Garcia, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose...
2022-04-26 19:23:38 +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. 2022-04-25 19:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast Party Chat, we're joined by former Game Informer editor Dan Tack to talk about...
- Dan leaving Game Informer
- Elden Ring strategies
- Nicholas Cage's best movies
- Elon Musk and Twitter or whatever
If you want to join the Party Chat ever...
2022-04-25 19:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-04-25 14:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to submit your comment for the third section of Chrono Cross! Even if you haven't hit the stopping point, feel free to submit a comment on what you've played so far. For this discussion, we're covering everything in the gam...
2022-04-25 13:41:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Surprise, everybody! After this came up on the podcast last week, we just had to do something with it. So, in this episode of Max Spoilers, Leo Vader and Contributor Jacob Geller talk about Pendragon, the young adult book series from...
2022-04-22 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! At the start of the year we reinvented the $50 tier on Patreon and it became the "Game Champion" tier. If you jump up to that tier, even for a month, you can choose any game under the sun and become its Champion. We ...
2022-04-21 19:44:58 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard to review the new handheld from Panic called Playdate and Valve's Steam Deck. Then we go down the rabbit hole and take a ton of community questions about the PSP, GameBoy Advance, Nintendo Switch rumors, an...
2022-04-20 21:37:43 +0000 UTC View Post
