Thanks to your support, we've had a great year here at MinnMax. In this video, we take a look back at the highlights and best moment from our year with Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Sarah Podzorski, Janet Garcia, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava. We show clips from Trivia Tower, The MinnMax Show podcast, MinnMax Council, The Deep...
2021-12-27 17:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time to build the list of our favorite games of 2021! On this big episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski create a list of Game of the Year contenders before they start whittling it down to The Two Tens. We debate Psychonauts 2, Death's Door, The Forgotten City, ...
2021-12-22 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson put together Tim Schafer from Double Fine and Hazelight Studios' Josef Fares to talk about Psychonauts 2, It Takes Two, and designing a great platformer in 2021. They cover a lot of ground, like comparing develop...
2021-12-20 17:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Bryan Vore and Ross Pfund to unpack Marvel and Sony's Spider-Man: No Way Home and spoil everything in the film. We talk about the returning villains, the surprises, the ending, the post-credits teasers, and everything else.
You can also watch and share the video version here - 2021-12-18 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to The MinnMax Awards for 2021! On this episode, we're celebrating the best from gaming this year by nominating and debating the winners for a handful of special categories. We have a full crew on this episode, with Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Janet Garcia, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski. We hope you ...
2021-12-16 05:48:08 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and Wade Wojcik kick off their big multi-part game club discussion of Halo Infinite's campaign from 343 Industries. With The Deepest Dive, they're creating the be...
2021-12-14 17:15:00 +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. 2021-12-13 19:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Since this will be the last episode of MinnMax Council for the year, it's our big community call-in episode! Ben Hanson takes calls about our Game of the Year lists, designing Trivia Tower, and a whole lot more. We hope you enjoy the discussion!
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 suppo...
2021-12-13 19:24:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We're holding our monthly call-in episode early, so today you can call in via the Discord to ask anything under the sun.
We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of ...
2021-12-13 15:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Kyle Hilliard recently attending a private virtual preview of Square-Enix's Forspoken, their upcoming open-world action RPG. We learned more about the story of Frey, world of Athia, and the city of Cipal. We ...
2021-12-13 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to submit your comment on the opening of Halo Infinite! For the first discussion, we're covering everything in the campaign up until the Pelican crashes in the mission called Pelican Down. It's the original campaign demo fr...
2021-12-12 17:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Please join MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Voidburger from Giant Bomb this Sunday at 7pm Central for an intense round of video game trivia! The competition happens in the MinnMax Discord, there's a link belo...
2021-12-11 21:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn this live episode of The MinnMax Show podcast, Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski are joined by Bryan Vore to break down the biggest reveals from The Game Awards. We highlight the biggest games shown off during Geoff Keighley's event, like a Wonder Woman game from Monolith, a new Elden Ring trailer, Sonic Frontiers...
2021-12-10 20:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostHeads up, folks! With The Game Awards on Thursday night at 7pm Central (we're streaming reactions, by the way), we're delaying the podcast recording this week until Friday. It'll be a live episode on YouTube at 12pm Central.
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Sarah ...
2021-12-07 23:28:45 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork take calls from the community about getting better and set new personal goals for the month of December.
You can watch and share the video version of BetterQuest right here - https://youtu.be/Bq5fNElMTM4
To jump...
2021-12-07 03:06:33 +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. 2021-12-06 23:43:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon and they can ask us anything under the sun. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
If you want to join the MinnMax Council and even call-in to the show on the last Sunday of every month...
2021-12-06 19:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here at MinnMax we're creating the best, most thorough discussion about Halo Infinite on the internet... and we need your help! We're breaking Halo Infinite's campaign up into two parts so we can go much more in-depth with our discussion than a standard video review. The panel for The Deepest Dive will be Ben Hanson, Jeff Mar...
2021-12-06 16:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll ...
2021-12-06 14:52:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! If you listened to our Patreon-exclusive podcast MinnMax Council you've probably heard me (Ben Hanson) mention a passion project video essay I've been working on for a while. Well, here it is! I wanted to explore what it's like to be a fan of an absurd game like Konami's Sunset Riders for 30 years and how one...
2021-12-03 17:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, and special guest Jacob Geller are joined by the master of music (and host of Level with Emily) Emily Reese to break down our favorite game music tracks from 2021. I'm sure we all missed some great games and music, so feel free to leave any b...
2021-12-01 23:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and special guest Emily Reese! It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, or anything else for us to read on the show as a c...
2021-11-30 21:09:33 +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. 2021-11-29 20:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the big community call-in episode of MinnMax Council! If you're a $20 supporter you can ask any question you want every week for the show and even call in on the last Sunday of every month! We'd love to hear from you next month.
On this episode, Ben Hanson takes calls from the community about the Spider-Man f...
2021-11-29 18:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIn this interview, MinnMax's Ben Hanson talks to Guardians of the Galaxy's senior narrative director Mary C. De Marle and senior creative director Jean-Francois Dugas from Eidos Montreal about their experience developing the new Marvel game. We talk about the game's marketing, the best reactions from the community, and the de...
2021-11-29 17:14:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! Thanks for supporting us at the MinnMax Council tier, we greatly appreciate it! Tonight (Sunday) at 7pm Central, you can call in via the MinnMax Council Discord channel to talk to Ben Hanson about whatever you want. The floor is yours.
We look forward to hearing from you! Let us know if you have any que...
2021-11-28 17:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostEvery year there's so much to be thankful for in the world of video games, so each year Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Cork, and Jeff Marchiafava get together and celebrate the year with jokes. This year we fully randomized who's telling which joke, and we also pulled great jokes from the MinnMax community about Resident Evil Vi...
2021-11-25 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode. Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, and Kyle Hilliard share their picks for some overlooked great games from 2021 and also talk about the news that Harmonix is now owned by Epic Games. Then we're joined by previous guests 2021-11-24 22:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post
MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Bryan Vore, and Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund break down the first two episodes of Marvel's Hawkeye on Disney Plus. We hope you enjoy the discussion!
You can watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/Z3p-0vMIeoY 2021-11-24 16:55:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, and returning guests O'Dell Harmon Jr and Ni...
2021-11-23 20:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
