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 comment to around the length of a tweet. We want to get to as m...
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, you can call in and ask us anything under the sun or just talk about som...
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 any questions about how it all works, we're happy to help you call in! 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 on Halo 1
00:04:54 - Upcoming DC games
00:05:56 - Prince ...
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 ending. We talk about the impact of the Flood, the introduction of 343 Guil...
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 questions around 10am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episo...
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 original Rogue Legacy back in the day, and I'm curious to see the cha...
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 call-in show will be this Sunday the 23rd at 6pm. Let us know if you ...
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.
Also, because we're continuing to grow, please keep your...
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 the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
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...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - Halo: Infinite delay<...
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 Guys on Twitch, Steam, and PlayStation 4 mean for the future of the stu...
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 submitted on Patreon. This discussion covers everything from the start of the ...
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 pulling questions around 10am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’...
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 Patreon community as much as possible. So please leave a question or di...
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 roguelike has been getting rave reviews from our community on Discord, ...
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 if only for one month.
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 studio and the flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom. We also go back in tim...
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 Control Room mission. Please don't spoil anything after that 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 the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
Ana 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 in shaping Pokémon into the popular franchise it is today. They also...
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, singing, and learning German. If you'd like to call in for the next ...
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 channel and talking about the goal you're setting for yourself and repo...
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 from the community as we go. The first discussion will go live on
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 you have any questions about how to watch episodes of The MinnMax Show ...
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 prize for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 10am Centra...
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 Backstage Pass, where we'll be sharing links to watch The MinnMax Show, Th...
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!
Neon Abyss - This action roguelite has been getting a ton...
2020-08-03 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post