We're coming up on the grand finale of The Deepest Dive for 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved. It's time to submit your thoughts on the first game's multiplayer!
Also, because we're continuing to grow, please keep your one co...
2020-08-24 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! It's a week early, but this Sunday at 6pm Central Ben Hanson and Suriel Vazquez will be taking calls from the MinnMax Council channel on Discord for MinnFAQs. If you're a $20 supporter, yo...
2020-08-22 15:27:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello MinnMax supporters! We're recording our monthly call-in episode of MinnFAQs a week early this month, so on Sunday at 6pm Central Ben Hanson will be joined by Suriel Vazquez to take calls from the MinnMax Council channel on Discord and answer anything and everything the community wants to know. Let us know if you have an...
2020-08-22 15:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer may shock you! Thanks to everyone in our Backstage Pass tier who hung out on stream while I put this together and made some crucial suggestions, it 100% turned out better as a result.
Enjoy the video before it goes live for everyone tomorrow!
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show, supporters! This week Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Ana Diaz, and Leo Vader get to rave about Spiritfarer and stand in awe of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:53 - The Deepest Dive...
2020-08-20 00:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The Deepest Dive! MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez continue their gigantic community-fueled game club discussion of Bungie's 2001 classic Halo: Combat Evolved. This discussion covers everything in the game from the sixth mission called 343 Guilty Spark through the endin...
2020-08-19 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, and Ana Diaz. 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 for the winner! We'll stop pulling qu...
2020-08-18 19:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday at 12 PM Central for The Great GOTY Hunt!
Rogue Legacy 2 - I adored the...
2020-08-17 19:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostEvery Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon. 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 MinnFAQs, you can support us at the $20 tier even if only for one month. This month's...
2020-08-17 18:03:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to submit your comment on the second half of Halo: Combat Evolved for The Deepest Dive! For the next discussion airing on Wednesday, we're talking about everything in the 2001 game from 343 Guilty Spark through the ending.<...
2020-08-17 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on...
2020-08-17 14:44:25 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to a new episode of The MinnMax Show! On this episode Ben Hanson, Ana Diaz, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava talk about the biggest news of the week and then share a ton of great indie games they've been playing. Thanks for your support!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below....
2020-08-13 02:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to your support on Patreon, we were able to line up an interview with the senior designer for the biggest game in the world right now: Fall Guys! Thank you! In this MinnMax interview with Ben Hanson, Fall Guys' senior designer Joe Walsh about the history of Mediatonic as a studio and what the colossal success of Fall G...
2020-08-12 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez launch their gigantic community-fueled game club discussion of Bungie's 2001 classic Halo: Combat Evolved. We're breaking the Xbox game up into multiple sections and discussing them in as much detail as we can thanks to the community's comments submitte...
2020-08-12 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Ana Diaz, and Jeff Marchiafava. 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 for the winner! We'll stop pul...
2020-08-11 18:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn this Friday's episode, the guest is Minnnesota radio personality Paul Charchian and we’ll be reviewing For Their Love by Other Lives and Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. You’re welcome to listen to the albums ahead of time!
On every episode of MinnTrax, we want to involve the P...
2020-08-10 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday at 12 PM Central for The Great GOTY Hunt!
Undermine - This action-adventure r...
2020-08-10 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEvery Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon. 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 MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month, you can support us at the $20 tier even i...
2020-08-10 18:57:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody, thanks again for your support on Patreon! Here's a good interview if you want to know about the fall of Visceral Games, life inside EA, and how business deals with Epic work. In this new interview, Ben Hanson talks to The Wandering Band's Zach Mumbach and Ben Wander talk about the formation of their new studi...
2020-08-10 18:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! It's time to submit your comment on the first half of Halo: Combat Evolved for The Deepest Dive! For the first discussion airing on Wednesday, we're talking about everything in the game up through the Assault on the ...
2020-08-10 16:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on...
2020-08-10 14:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostAna is joined by co-founder of the Video Games History Foundation, Kelsey Lewin, to talk about the online communities behind Pokémon. On this episode, Ana and Kelsey discuss two major websites and communities, Serebii.net and Smogon University. Throughout their conversation learn more about these two websites, and their role...
2020-08-07 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody and welcome to a new episode of BetterQuest! On this months' episode, Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork report on the conclusion of their July goals (create a painting and reduce phone time) and share their new personal goals for the month of August. Then we take calls from the MinnMax community about starting podcasts...
2020-08-07 15:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody! At 7pm Central we're going live with the new episode of BetterQuest, our call-in show about getting better with our former co-worker Jeff Cork. Each month we're setting goals for ourselves and we encourage the community to create ones for themselves as well, we'll be taking calls from the High Council Discord c...
2020-08-06 23:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! We here at MinnMax are getting ready for the launch of the Xbox Series X and Halo Infinite by going back and playing 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved with The Deepest Dive! The Deepest Dive is a gigantic community game club discussion, where we break the game up until multiple sections and read insightful comments...
2020-08-06 16:36:16 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right! When everyone agreed to have these videos be about whatever I want them to be about, you've gotta take the good with the bad! This time I'm talking about two year old DLC for a Lord Of The Rings game and you can't stop me!
2020-08-06 03:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! We've got a gigantic new show for you all! We're sorry that the 2020 release calendar segment went on too long, but there are a lot of laughs. This was the first episode of The MinnMax Show that was live for folks at the $10 Backstage Pass tier, and hopefully you didn't notice a big difference! Let us know if y...
2020-08-05 23:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez on for the community questions. 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...
2020-08-04 20:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! Today we're very excited to announce a revamp of the $10 tier, which is now called the Backstage Pass! First off, $10 supporters will still be voting every week on The Great GOTY Hunt streams. We've just packed in a bunch of other cool bonuses as well.
We created a new channel in the Discord called Back...
2020-08-03 19:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt, and I'm excited to host my second one tomorrow at 12 PM Central!
