This month's Trivia Tower competition is at 1pm Central on Sunday, October 24th, we'd love to see you compete. Our special guest co-host this time around is GameSpot's Lucy James! ...
2021-10-23 14:56:35 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this week's show, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava recap all of the big DC news from over the weekend and talk about the Court of Owls in Gotham Knights before unpacking the new game from the creator of Deadly Premonition. Then Sarah Podzorski joins us ...
2021-10-20 21:21:49 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by former reviews editor for Game Informer Joe Juba to finish the best, most thorough discussion about Metroid Dread on the internet. In our second and final discussion...
2021-10-20 18:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Free Week continue here at MinnMax, so everybody is welcome to leave a question for the show! This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, or anything else for us to read on the...
2021-10-19 19:51:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody and welcome to the big vote for New Show Plus! In honor of MinnMax's 2nd anniversary, this week's New Show Plus poll is available to everybody. If you enjoy this benefit and more, please consider upping your tier in the future!
Every week New Show Plus lets supporters at the Backstage Pass tier on Patreo...
2021-10-18 20:30:42 +0000 UTC
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This week for MinnMax Council as part of MinnMax's "Free Week", we opened the doors and let anybody and everybody jump in the chat with questions for Jeff Marchiafava and Ben Hanson to answer. We talk about the future of MinnMax, JeffM's house, and a whole lot more. Thanks to everybody who submitted questions, we hope to see ...
2021-10-18 18:31:20 +0000 UTC
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It's time to submit your comment on the second half of Metroid Dread for The Deepest Dive!
Submit a comment below and please get specific. Don't write a long review, please keep your one comment to around the ...
2021-10-18 15:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! Every Monday at 12pm Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters at the MinnMax Council tier. With MinnMax's "Free Week" however, we're inviting all of you to join us for this episode!
This is a great time to really get into the weeds of MinnMax. We’re happy to answer any and all questions ...
2021-10-18 13:37:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello folks! MinnMax's 2nd anniversary is on October 24th, so we're celebrating all week long by lifting the curtain and offering some of our Patreon benefits to everybody for free! This is for one week only!
First things first...
2021-10-17 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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This Monday, October 18th at 7pm Central, we're creating the biggest cross-over event in games media history with Trivia Tower: All-Stars! 24 people from games coverage enter, and only one person will win $1,000 for a charity of their choice. The full list of competitors and their charity can be found below. There will be fou...
2021-10-15 17:25:53 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast, everybody! On today's episode, we're joined by YouTube essayist Jacob Geller, Polygon's Maddy Myers, and comedian/former Nintendo writer Mike Druck...
2021-10-13 21:25:56 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to The Deepest Dive on Metroid Dread! MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by former reviews editor for Game Informer Joe Juba for the best, most thorough discussion about Metroid Dread on the inte...
2021-10-13 16:15:01 +0000 UTC
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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and comedian/former Nintendo writer Mike Drucker. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a ...
2021-10-12 18:45:11 +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.
2021-10-11 20:17:27 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at noon 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...
2021-10-11 18:06:57 +0000 UTC
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Friend of the show Joe Juba hijacks MinnMax's airwaves to celebrate a holiday he invented: Columbo's Day! He recruited Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund and MinnMax's Ben Hanson along with the entire MinnMax community to watch the 1971 ...
2021-10-11 16:04:08 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon 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 ...
2021-10-11 15:11:45 +0000 UTC
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It's time to submit your comment on the first half of Metroid Dread for The Deepest Dive! The first discussion covers everything up until you defeat the fourth E.M.M.I, please don't spoil any details (including gamep...
2021-10-11 13:53:51 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Ben Hanson here! You might recall that thanks to your support on Patreon, we were fortunate enough to release a documentary on the origins of The Oregon Trail video game last October. We were then contacted by the PBS affiliate in the Twin Cities and the documentary aired on that channel called TPT, which led to it
2021-10-08 22:44:46 +0000 UTC
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In this gigantic spoilercast for Life is Strange: True Colors from Deck Nine, MinnMax's Janet Garcia (@gameonysus) is joined by Natalie Flores from FanByte, Blessing Adeoye Jr. from Kinda Funny, Taylor Lyles from IGN to break down ev...
2021-10-08 21:45:08 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to BetterQuest, the show about getting better and holding each other accountable! On this month's episode, MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Jeff Cork AND we receive a surprise visit from Best Friend Ronnie. We talk about The Office, Tony Bennett, and Tik Tok, but also sit back and witness perhaps the greatest BetterQ...
2021-10-08 18:12:20 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! This week's episode is a beast, with every MinnMax cohort jumping into the fray. We have Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Ben Hanson out of the gate to share their thoughts on Ubisoft's Far Cry 6 and early access to Halo Infinite's multiplayer. Then Sarah Podzorsk...
2021-10-06 21:09:57 +0000 UTC
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In this big spoilercast, MinnMax's entertainment compatriots Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund and Bryan Vore unpack the final episode and entire first season of Marvel's What If on Disney Plus. What does the animated show mean for the ...
2021-10-06 20:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Let's celebrate the return of Metroid together with a gigantic community game club discussion we call The Deepest Dive! Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and special guest Joe Juba will be dissecting everything great about Metroid Dread on the Nintendo Switch and we need your help. The reviews are looking good, so we'r...
2021-10-06 14:13:48 +0000 UTC
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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Sarah Podzorksi, and Janet Garcia. 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 comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out a great prize ...
2021-10-05 19:21:42 +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.
2021-10-04 20:44:02 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at noon 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...
2021-10-04 18:08:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello, MinnMax community! Joe Juba here, and I’m hijacking the Patreon feed to talk about my favorite October holiday. No, not Halloween. No, definitely not Columbus Day. I’m talking about Columbo’s Day, a holiday I in...
2021-10-04 15:46:52 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon 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 ...
2021-10-04 14:35:05 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Leo Vader discuss the ending to Arkane's Deathloop on the PlayStation 5 and PC. In this big spoilercast discussion, they talk about the multiple endings, Colt's revelations, and how the game...
2021-10-01 21:05:38 +0000 UTC
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