Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava to reminisce about our favorite demos and demo discs of all time. Let us know your favorites in the comments. Then we unpack some great games with generous demos like Team Ninja's Sekiro-inspired Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Humanity from Enhance Games, and Octopath Traveler 2. Then we also talk about the new Dead Cells DLC that's Castlevania-themed and JeffM falling in...
Mar 09, 2023•2 hr 21 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! Ben Hanson is joined by Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava to unpack everything we learned about Final Fantasy XVI this week, have a mini-Deepest Dive on The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap for the GameBoy Advance, and then JeffM passionately explains why most of us were dead wrong about Horizon Forbidden West. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help ma...
Mar 02, 2023•2 hr 15 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader, Sarah Podzorski, and Kyle Hilliard to unpack all of the news from Sony's State of Play, talk about playing Resident Evil Village and Gran Turismo 7 in VR, and lavish unexpected praise on Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and lea...
Feb 24, 2023•2 hr 4 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard to rave about the Metroid Prime Remaster, share their full thoughts on the PSVR2 headset (provided by PlayStation) and its flagship title Horizon Call of the Mountain, then we talk about the new Monster Hunter-like game Wild Hearts and Double Fine's incredible new documentary series about the development of Psychonauts 2. Then we answer questions s...
Feb 16, 2023•2 hr 18 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! This week Ben Hanson is joined by Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, and special guest Jill Grodt from The Indie Informer to recap the highlights from the big Nintendo Direct. We talk about the new trailer and vehicle reveal for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Metroid Prime Remastered, Pikmin 4, GameBoy Advances games on the Nintendo Switch, and more! Then Leo tells us why Hitman's Freelancer mode made his favorite game of all time even better and Jill Grodt...
Feb 09, 2023•2 hr 27 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava talk about how much they're enjoying EA's big remake of Dead Space and the amazing release of Hi-Fi Rush from Tango Gameworks. We also talk about Season: A Letter To The Future and the announcement this week of The Crew Motorfest. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show ...
Feb 02, 2023•2 hr 1 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava to unpack Xbox's new game showcase called Developer Direct with new looks at Redfall, Forza Motorsport, Minecraft Legends, and the big reveal and surprise release of Hi-Fi Rush from the creators of The Evil Within. Then we dive into the big meaty release of the week from Square-Enix called Forspoken, we debate the game's writing and what the action-RPG offers. Then ...
Jan 26, 2023•2 hr 11 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, we've reassembled the crew of Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava to be embarrassed by our predictions for 2022 before confidently predicting everything in the gaming world from 2023. We also talk a bit about Fire Emblem Engage, One Piece Odyssey, and Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider on the episode as well. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 52 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Sarah Podzorski, Jeff Marchiava, and Jacob Geller to unpack our excitement (and fears) about the games releasing in 2023. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Watch and share the video version of this episode here ...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 59 min
It's time for the first episode of The MinnMax Show for 2023! We're back! On this episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Jacob Geller to talk about our winter break and share the highlights of all the games we played. We also share the big results for the MinnMax community's hive-mind take on the top 10 games of 2022! Forget The Two Tens, this is an objective list based on hundreds and hundreds of votes. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community an...
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 59 min
This is it, everybody. The final debate for Game of the Year for 2022 and the ranking of The Two Tens. MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Jeff Marchiafava to celebrate and rank the greatest games released in 2022. Where will Horizon Forbidden West rank? Should Wordle claim a spot on the list? Will anything dethrone Elden Ring? Tune in to find out! Thank you all so much for watching and sharing MinnMax's end o...
Dec 29, 2022•2 hr 42 min
Welcome back to another exciting episode of The MinnMax Show. On this episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jefff Marchiafava, and Jacob Geller to start debating the list for the best games of 2022. We celebrate the greatest games with a list of Two Tens, some might say the Top 20 games of the year. We build up all of the contenders along the way before we try to narrow things down to a workable version of The Two Tens. We'll be b...
Dec 22, 2022•2 hr 37 min
Welcome to the biggest episode of The MinnMax Show EVER! This week is dedicated to handing out the annual MinnMax Awards for specific categories in gaming this year and Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and Kelsey Lewin. We run down our picks for Best Thing, Dumbest Thing, Biggest News, The Game We All Agree Is Probably Good But We Didn't Play, Best Character, Best Moment, and The Greatest Work Of Art Of All Time. To ...
Dec 15, 2022
We're sorry we're a bit late, but we there's so much to talk about with The Game Awards that we had to delay things a bit! On this episode, MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader, Kyle Hilliard, and the queen of The Game Awards herself Janet Garcia to unpack the biggest highlights and reveals from the evening. We also talk about Need for Speed Unbound, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion, and Leo talks about why he's digging Pentiment so much! Then we answer wonderful questions submitted...
Dec 09, 2022•2 hr 21 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller and Emily Reese to break down our favorite pieces of game music from 2022. We hit the big stuff like God of War Ragnarok and Elden Ring, but also dive into the weeds on some great soundtracks from smaller games this year as well. We also share some of the community's picks submitted over on Patreon. You can find links below to the tracks we played on the podcast. Then we answer questions submitted on P...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 57 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On today's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski to share our thoughts on Pokémon Scarlet And Violet and its technical limitations on the Nintendo Switch. Then Leo Vader and Jacob Geller join the show and we talk about the opening hours to Marvel's Midnight Suns from Firaxis and Sarah tells us all about Tactics Ogre: Reborn. Oh, and Leo Vader explains why he's fallen back in love with Fallout 76. ...
Nov 24, 2022•2 hr 10 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Sarah Podzorski, and Leo Vader to set the stage for our 2022 Game of the Year debate by suggesting games other folks should check out. Then we talk about the incredible historical work done with the Atari 50 collection, Obsidian's bold take with Pentiment, and why Kyle loves Pentiment. Then we're joined by generous Extra Life donor CalamityNolan from the community to ...
Nov 17, 2022•2 hr 6 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! We have a fun episode for you this week, Ben Hanson is joined by Sarah Podzorski, Ana Diaz, and (formerly of Game Informer, The Washington Post, and Fanbyte) Elise Favis. We share our thoughts on Sonic Frontiers, break down the highlights from Nintendo's Indie World showcase, Elise raves about A Plague Tale: Requiem, we pit the farming in Coral Island against Square-Enix's Harvestella, and Sarah talks about playing Resident Evil 4 for the first time. Then we ans...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 53 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Jacob Geller as they dive into their full (and extremely spoiler-free) review of God of War Ragnarok from Santa Monica Studios. Then we talk about Bayonetta 3, Resident Evil Village's DLC, and the price and release date reveal for PSVR2. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the sh...
Nov 03, 2022•1 hr 49 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard to talk about the first five hours of God of War: Ragnarok without spoiling any story details. Then Jacob Geller unloads his thoughts on Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and he and Kyle try to share their odd appreciation of Scorn. Jeff Marchiafava joins the show as we all talk about Gotham Knights from Warner Bros. Montreal and why it misses the mark. The...
Oct 27, 2022•2 hr 13 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Jeff Marchiafava to unpack all of the big reveals for the Silent Hill franchise like a remake of Silent Hill 2 from Bloober Team and new games called Silent Hill F, Silent Hill: Ascension, and Silent Hill: Townfall. Then we all gush over Ubisoft's new tactics game Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle on the Nintendo Switch, Kyle won't stop talking about Pilotwings 64, and Hanson weighs i...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 51 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and Janet Garcia to try and predict the review scores and reception for 2022's biggest upcoming games like God of War: Ragnarok, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Then we talk about playing Street Fighter 6 and the new Monster Hunter-like game from EA called Wild Hearts before diving into questions from the community. If you support MinnMax on Patreon, you ...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 59 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava to unpack the big reveal trailer for Nintendo and Illumination's Super Mario Bros movie and to try to wrap their minds around Chris Pratt's voice for Mario. Then they talk about CD Projekt RED's big announcement of upcoming games in The Witcher and Cyberpunk universes, the Dead Space remake trailer, Potion Permit, and a whole lot more. Then we answer questions submitted on Pa...
Oct 06, 2022•2 hr 3 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by the founder of Indie Informer Jill Grodt to unpack our predictions for God of War: Ragnarok. Heads up, they do include spoilers for God of War 2018. After that, we talk about Cyberpunks 2077's resurgence with the new anime on Netflix, Tunic on the Nintendo Switch, and Shovel Knight Dig! Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of...
Sep 29, 2022
On this episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and special guest Imran Khan to talk about the Rockstar's nightmare scenario of GTA 6 gameplay videos leaking and a whole lot more. Ben Hanson talks about his trip to San Francisco (which, full transparency, Ubisoft paid for) to play Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope on the Nintendo Switch and Imran talks about visiting Tokyo to play PlayStation VR 2. Then we're joined by the OTHER co-director of the Video Ga...
Sep 22, 2022
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! We have a heck of an episode for you this week, with Ben Hanson joined by Sarah Podzorski, Janet Garcia, and Kyle Hilliard to unpack the best moments and trailers from the avalanche of news and press conferences in the game industry. We talk about the big Nintendo Direct where they revealed Fire Emblem Engage and Pikmin 4, and we really dive in to talking about the re-release of Goldeneye 007 and the big announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The ...
Sep 15, 2022•2 hr 15 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, and returning guest O'Dell Harmon Jr. to talk about the best games from PAX West including Lies of P and Gunbrella. Then we talk about the new trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet before unpacking the reveal of Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty and debate whether the upcoming DLC can restore the name of Cyberpunk. Then Leo Vader joins us to talk about his love of Assassin's Creed Rogu...
Sep 08, 2022•2 hr 8 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Janet Garcia to talk about playing The Last of Us Part 1 (codes provided by PlayStation) and then share our picks for the games we'd most like to see remade. After that, we have a bunch of games to talk about like the excellent Tinykin, Cursed to Golf, and the shockingly divisive Pac-Man World Re-PAC. Then we're joined by Digital Eclipse's Chris Kohler to share the full backstor...
Sep 01, 2022•2 hr 32 min
On this special episode of The MinnMax Show podcast, Janet Garcia joins Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, and Leo Vader in the MinnMax Studio thanks to your support on Patreon! We talk about the biggest reveals and news from Gamescom and Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live event featuring games like Lies of P and Dead Island 2 before unpacking the underwhelming reboot of Saints Row. Then we answer wonderful questions submitted on Patreon and award the iam8bit prize of the week! https://www.patreon.co...
Aug 25, 2022•2 hr 22 min
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, and Jacob Geller debate and create a list of the most epic video games ever made. We're factoring in the game's scope, ambition, budget, and downright lunacy. Then we unpack some new games we've been enjoying like Rollerdrome from Roll7, Midnight Fight Express, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on the Nintendo Switch. Then we answer some wonderful questions from the community in the back half of t...
Aug 18, 2022
