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MinnMax Plays A Micro RPG - Toppling A Tabletop Drug Empire
This week for New Show Plus, MinnMax's Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, and Haley MacLean are joined by the world's greatest DM Charles Harte to play a short and simple tabletop game (known as a Micro RPG) that's called Roll for Shoes. They set out on an adventure filled with hitmen and zombi...
Reviving Rapid-Fire Interviews With 176 Questions About Astro Bot
Back in 2014 we were brainstorming video ideas at Game Informerin preparation for the cover story trip to highlight No Man's Sky. At a certain point an exasperated JeffM said "Just ask them if you can ride a dinosaur!" That led to us volleying dozens and dozens of questions to Hello Game...
Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Kyle Hilliard, and former Game Informer Marcus Stewart. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment...
Bonus Pod - Janet Played A Ton Of Upcoming Games!
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by _________ and here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…Jak II is kinda bad (and that's okay)other games we love to hateranking the games Janet played at Gamescomis Supermassive spreading itself too thin these days?our favorite pro...
Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!
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 inthis quick video.So check out your options below, and vote to ...
Max Spoilers - Alien: Romulus
MinnMax's Kyle Hilliard and Jacob Geller spoil and unpack their full thoughts on Alien: Romulus, the new film directed by Fede Álvarez and produced by Ridley Scott. They talk about whether the film succeeds as a back-to-basics horror film, debate the role of synthetics in this film, and specula...
Vote For The Retro Game We Tackle Next For The Deepest Dive!
After a long stretch of covering new games with The Deepest Dive, we heard the community's outcry to go back and tackle something from the past with a multi-part game club discussion. To help support some of the Game Informer editors who lost their job when the magazine shut down, we let four of...
The MinnMax Show - Gamescom's Biggest Reveals, Indiana Jones Preview, Borderlands 4
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Leo Vader, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by Kate Sánchez from ButWhyTho to unpack the biggest headlines and reveals from Geoff Keighley's Gamescom Opening Night Live. They talk about the new Amazon animated show featuri...
Travelogue: MinnMax Visits Chicago For The Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Concert (And The Extended Version)
Hello everybody! We've got another travelogue for you here, they are a blast to produce. MinnMax's Ben Hanson travels to Chicago with his old friends Grant and Ronnie (who you might recognize from The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth) to attend the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth O...
Travelogue: MinnMax Visits Chicago For The Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Concert
Hello everybody! We've got another travelogue for you here, they are a blast to produce. MinnMax's Ben Hanson travels to Chicago with his old friends Grant and Ronnie (who you might recognize from The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth) to attend the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth O...
Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and special returning guest Kate Sanchezfrom ButWhyTho. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read...
Bonus Pod - Picking Each Cohort's Pokémon Team
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by Kelsey Lewin and they dedicate the episode to picking the full Pokémon team for every MinnMax Cohort. It's a journey.Thanks so much for supporting and unlocking Bonus Pod. You can call into future episodes of Bonus Pod via Discord by joini...
Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!
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 inthis quick video.So check out your options below, and vote to ...
The MinnMax Show - The Big Game Informer Reunion, Fields Of Mistria, Splitgate 2
There will never be a bigger episode of The MinnMax Show with more people packed inside of it. On this episode, Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, Sarah Podzorski, Haley MacLean, and Janet Garcia unpack some love for the new farming sim game Fields of Mistria that Sarah has been ...
Submit Your Game Informer-Related Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast
This week for community questions on the podcast, we're getting a ton of former Game Informer editors together to reminisce. So for this one week, please only submit questions that a big panel of Game Informer veterans can answer. We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great p...
Bonus Pod - Former Editor-In-Chief Andrew Reiner Reflects On Game Informer Shutting Down
This week on Bonus Pod, Ben Hanson fills in for Haley MacLean and is joined by Game Informer's former executive editor and editor-in-chief Andrew Reiner. We take calls from the community at the MinnMax Council tier and talk about…Reiner's start at the magazine in 1994The rise of the magazi...
Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!
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 inthis quick video.So check out your options below, and vote to ...
MinnMax Interview - Darksiders, Castlevania, And Airship Syndicate’s Chaotic Path To Wayfinder
In this MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson talks to Airship Syndicate's Joe Madureira and Ryan Stefanelli about the chaotic path to the release of their new, co-op game Wayfinder. From Darksiders 1 and 2 and Vigil Games to their independent path at Airship Syndicate working on Battle Chasers: Nightwa...
The MinnMax Show - Inside The End Of Game Informer
Welcome to a special episode of The MinnMax Show. On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, and Leo Vader are joined by Alex Van Aken, Marcus Stewart, and Charles Harte to unpack all of their thoughts, feelings, and insight into the end of Game Informer. GameStop shut down the beloved m...
Kelsey Lewin On Animal Crossing's History And Her New Book
This is the podcast version of this week's New Show Plus winner. As you probably know, every week we let Backstage Pass supporters vote to choose which new show we create or continue. This week they chose a show called "Reading" that had MinnMax's Kelsey Lewin read from the new book ...
Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, and Charles Harte, Alex Van Aken, and Marcus Stewart from the end of Game Informer. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else ...
Bonus Pod - Charles Harte Lives, Ace Attorney Preview, D&D For Beginners
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean is joined by now (sadly) former Game Informer associate editor Charles Harte and here’s a rundown of everything they talk about…Ace Attorney Investigations Collection previewThe stress of interviewing a dev about a game you know nothing aboutIs the D&D ...
Leaving Game Informer’s Office Behind (And The Extended Cut)
As you might know, MinnMax was formed in 2019 in protest of GameStop's brutal layoffs at Game Informer. Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, and Suriel Vazquez used to work at the video game magazine in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Jacob Geller and Haley MacLean were interns. La...
Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!
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 inthis quick video.So check out your options below, and vote to ...
The MinnMax Show - Star Wars Outlaws, Dragon Age, Thank Goodness Lucy James Is Here
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson and Leo Vader talk to Jeff Marchiafava and Jacob Geller about their time playing four hours of Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws and how it compared to their expectations. Then we gush about da goo and talk about the long-awaite...
Chicago Folks, Come To MinnMax's Meetup On Saturday, August 17th
Hey everybody! We still have our big community meetup happening on October 5th in Asheville, North Carolina, but this month Ben Hanson and his old friends Ronnie and Grant will be in Chicago and we'd love to thank you in person for supporting MinnMax! We'll be at The Game Room loungeon Satur...
Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and special guests Haley De Boom AND GameSpot's Lucy James! It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on...
Bonus Pod - EarthBound, Fallout, And The Community Call-In Special
This week on Bonus Pod, host Haley MacLean dives back to the phone lines to take calls (via Discord) from the MinnMax Council tier members in the community. They talk about...EarthBound as The Deepest Dive?Fallout 76Dead by DaylightShould we all move to Nova Scotia?The legality of video game IP coll...
Choose What We Stream On New Show Plus!
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 inthis quick video.So check out your options below, and vote to ...
Max Spoilers - Deadpool & Wolverine
MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Bryan Vore and Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund to talk about Marvel's big and only film for 2024: Deadpool & Wolverine. We spoil the biggest moments and cameos, review the film, and talk about its impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward...
