Every Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the High Council) on Patreon. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
If you want to join the High Council and even call-in to MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month, you can support us at the $20 tier even if only...
2020-06-15 18:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at Noon Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the High 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 th...
2020-06-15 13:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We just wrapped up What Remains of Edith Finch and it's already time to kick off another round of The Deepest Dive! We're ready to savor and dissect everything that Naughty Dog has made for the world with The Deepest Dive on The Last of Us Part II. The Deepest Dive is a gigantic community game club discussion, where we break ...
2020-06-12 14:21:37 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show! It's a big episode this week as we're joined by Polygon's Mike Mahardy to break down Sony's gigantic reveal of a ton of games for the PlayStation 5 and the hardware itself. We hope you enjoy the show!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
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2020-06-12 00:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
At 3pm Central, we'll be streaming our reactions to Sony's reveal event for several games on the PlayStation 5. We'll shut up during the important bits, so please join Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez as we get our first big look at the next generation of games!
Welcome back to The Deepest Dive! Folks at the $10 tier on Patreon voted for it, so here's our fun discussion all about Giant Sparrow's What Remains of Edith Finch from 2017. For this game club discussion, Ben Hanson and Ana Diaz are joined by Marcus Stewart and Jacob Geller to talk about death and generational trauma... you ...
2020-06-10 17:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostBen Hanson speaks with Marcus Lehto from V1 Interactive about forging his own path and creating the new RTS-inspired FPS Disintegration and what it's like to try and finish developing a game during a pandemic. We also talk about his career at Bungie, from designing Master Chief to directing Halo: Reach. Marcus has a great per...
2020-06-10 15:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostBecause of the very exciting PlayStation 5 stream on Thursday at 3pm Central (which we'll be streaming out reaction to) we're delaying this week's podcast until Thursday evening.
But on this week's episode we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, and guest Mike Mahardy. It's your turn to m...
2020-06-09 17:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This Wednesday at 2pm Central, we're streaming the season finale of Photomode Snap! Leave a comment below with a screenshot that you took from any game ever and we'll review it on the show along with the MinnMax community. This isn't...
2020-06-09 15:17:47 +0000 UTC View PostEvery Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the High Council) on Patreon. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
If you want to join the High Council and even call-in to MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month, you can support us at the $20 tier even if only...
2020-06-08 23:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt.
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection - Let's head back to the 90s and experience the cla...
2020-06-08 22:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The community voted, so this Wednesday we'll be airing The Deepest Dive on What Remains of Edith Finch. What we need now is your insight! Leave a comment below with a very specific piece of feedback on the game, like your favorite li...
2020-06-08 21:57:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Monday at Noon Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the High 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 th...
2020-06-08 14:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn addition to MinnMax's own charity drive, here's an archived stream of Ben Hanson hosting a GameSpot charity drive to raise money for Covid-19 Direct Relief and Black Lives Matter where we play an intense round of game case trivia with Kinda Funny's Blessing Adeoye Jr., GameRanx's Jake Baldino, Easy Allies' Brandon Jones, G...
2020-06-05 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the first big episode of our new show BetterQuest! Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork share their personal goals for the month of June before taking calls from the MinnMax community about losing weight, learning Japanese, and creating art. BetterQuest also has a special guest appearance by friend of the show Dan Ryckert. If ...
2020-06-05 16:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody! At 7pm Central we're going live with the first episode of BetterQuest, our new 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 Dis...
2020-06-04 22:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to a new episode of The MinnMax Show podcast! Obviously it's an emotional week, but we wanted to do our best to add some positivity back into your day. On this week's episode, we're joined by former Game Informer editor Bryan Vore, the developer of 2020-06-03 22:58:43 +0000 UTC View Post
After two days of intense community voting by $10 supporters, What Remains of Edith Finch has won and will be the next Deepest Dive! We'll be playing through the game (which is around 2 hours long) and reading your comments about the...
2020-06-03 16:53:53 +0000 UTC View Post
If the world is bumming you out and everything you see online is frying your soul, here's an outlet for you! We just launched a new charity drive all about rebuilding the city of Minneapolis. We want to emphasize our support for the ...
2020-06-02 22:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on the podcast, we'll be joined by Marcus Stewart and former Game Informer editor Bryan Vore. 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 ...
2020-06-02 18:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time ever, we're letting the community decide The Deepest Dive! If you're at the $10 Patreon tier, even if only for a month, you get to vote on not only The Great GOTY Hunt streams but also The Deepest Dive! If you jump up to that tier, the post with the poll ending at midnight on Tuesday will unlock for you. Le...
2020-06-01 21:22:16 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time ever, we're letting the community decide The Deepest Dive! The Deepest Dive is our community-fueled game club discussions that aim to be the best, most thorough discussions on the internet. Thanks for you continued support of MinnMax, we appreciate any help spreading the word about what we'...
2020-06-01 20:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday for The Great GOTY Hunt.
Gunfire Reborn - Described as "Borderlands meets Risk of Rain", this FPS/RPG roguelite is in ea...
2020-06-01 17:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostOn the final Sunday of the month, we stream a very special episode of MinnFAQs where we let each and every $20 supporter call in and podcast with us about whatever they want. On this episode, we talk about living in Minneapolis during this period of history, Shadow of the Colossus, and a whole lot more. Thanks to everybody th...
2020-06-01 14:31:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! At 6pm Central, we'll be going live with our monthly call-in episode of MinnFAQs! We'll be pulling calls from the High Council channel on Discord, so jump in and get ready to talk about whatever you'd like or ask me anything under the sun.
If you can’t make it to the stream, feel free to leave your qu...
2020-05-31 22:27:10 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to your support, Jeff Cork (former co-worker from Game Informer) and Ben Hanson are launching a new show called BetterQuest! BetterQuest is a monthly call-in show for folks at the High Council Patreon tier that's all about accountability for getting better. Every month we'll each pick an area of our lives to i...
2020-05-29 17:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to The MinnMax Show and thanks for your support! On this week's episode, we talk about The Last of Us Part II (without spoilers), Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, and welcome Ana Diaz as a new official contributor to MinnMax! We hope you enjoy the show!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestam...
2020-05-28 00:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to the island! After months away, we brought the Animal Crossing crew back together to check back in on how everybody's doing with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. So on this episode, Ben Hanson is joined once again by Ana Diaz, Sarah Podzorski, and Kelsey Lewin to talk about turnips, terraforming, and what's wrong...
2020-05-27 16:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, 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...
2020-05-26 14:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week we let the community vote on a theme for the next special episode of Photomode Snap and you chose superheroes! So this Thursday at 3pm Central we're streaming the first ever live episode of Photomode Snap, and we'll be look...
2020-05-25 20:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post
