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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 12/10/2026

We're missing the random Nintendo whimsy of yore on a brand new Pew Pew Bang: a well deserved retrospective on the GameCube. Watch here or listen anywhere: youtu.be/sjSHvqj5OZE

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🎉 HUGE CAREER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉 Today, I'm launching Vertical Slice, a new independent trade outlet committed to producing quality video game journalism that inspires, informs, and interrogates. That means daily news, incisive interviews, vital investigative work, and more. www.verticalslice.news

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 08/10/2026

The new episode of The MinnMax Show is now live on YouTube and your favorite podcast app. We talk about parting ways with Jacob Geller, then reset for some passionate discussion about games. youtu.be/rF3x6Iurjfw

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 08/10/2026

This week's episode of The MinnMax Show is now live in the bonus podcast feed. Thank you. www.patreon.com/minnmax/post... It'll be public on Thursday at 12:15pm Central, after our reaction stream to the Triple-I Initiative Showcase.

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 07/10/2026

As we all know, some Remedy characters are live-action. Some are in-game models. Some are live action AND in-game models. Some are transparent live-action layers on top of gameplay. As it should be. The Deepest Dive on Control Resonant rolls on from MinnMax! youtu.be/nahevH_wlrs

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 07/10/2026

MinnMax's Give To The Max Charity Stream will be on Friday, November 6th. We'll have great charity auction items and plenty of games in the MinnMax Studio. Stay tuned for more details.

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 06/10/2026

The Deepest Dive on Control Resonant continues, with @leovader.com, @haleyfax.bsky.social, and @yozetty.bsky.social unpacking everything from Into the Sinkhole to The House In Distress. Thanks for your continued support of our three-part game club discussion! youtu.be/nahevH_wlrs

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 01/10/2026

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 30/09/2026

Join @yozetty.bsky.social and @jacobgeller.com as they review and spoil Marvel’s Wolverine alongside Kyle Bosman and Game Informer’s @chuckduck365.bsky.social. Max Spoilers - Marvel’s Wolverine is now available on YouTube and Patreon at the $5 tier. youtu.be/jNv1VZXnjGA

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 29/09/2026

Read today's Grand Theft Auto VI cover story for free in the Game Informer app. You can also subscribe to the print edition and receive this collectible piece of gaming history as your first issue. gameinformer.com/GTAVICoverSt... #GTAVI #GrandTheftAutoVI @rockstargames.com

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 29/09/2026

The Deepest Dive on Control Resonant is now live! Join @haleyfax.bsky.social, @leovader.com, @jacobgeller.com, and @yozetty.bsky.social as they kick off the best, most thorough discussion about Remedy's new game on the internet. youtu.be/hSHR5neG2js

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 28/09/2026

On a brand new Pew Pew Bang we're celebrating Sarah's birthday with the special guest of her dreams! Watch here or listen anywhere (including on Patreon for the exclusive Sarah's Loaded Gun segment): youtu.be/YP-XYrSYgNM

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@cressup.bsky.social Great Double Fine interview. I was just listening to it, then glanced at the video and was like “Hey! I know her from Twitch!”

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 26/09/2026

If you cut Ben off in traffic, the least you could do is support MinnMax on Patreon. We've heard a lot of reasons why people support MinnMax on Patreon, but here's a fresh one from the new episode of The MinnMax Show. youtu.be/TEjnWqCLX20

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Marcus Stewart @marcusstewart7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a games media writer, this will probably be the biggest cover story I’ll write in my career. As a lifelong South Florida resident, this is the most Florida thing I’ve ever Florida’d.

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These TGS @84play.bsky.social episodes are such a blast. It’s a direct line back to what made me fall in love with listening to game podcasts at 1up 20 years ago. Every new guest on this episode had me pumping my fist like it’s a Royal Rumble or whatever.

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 24/09/2026

We review Silent Hill: Townfall, rave even more about Onimusha, AND finally uncork the love for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave on the new episode of The MinnMax Show FEATURING @jjdotbiz.bsky.social from @blankcheck.bsky.social! youtu.be/TEjnWqCLX20

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/09/2026

Turns out Seth Meyers applied to work on You Don't Know Jack in the 90s. Did you know about this, @latenightseth.bsky.social? We get to the bottom of the Chicago comedy --> @jackboxgames.com pipeline in the new MinnMax Spotlight. youtu.be/Aj53SRZn4VA

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That opening scene though…

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 22/09/2026

It's time to unpack everything in the new Resident Evil movie. Enjoy the new Max Spoilers featuring @jacobgeller.com, @kylehilliard.com, @leovader.com, and @yozetty.bsky.social! youtu.be/rVUqk8siSI8

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey buds. I’m desperate for better recurring meet ups for game folks. I’m hoping to put together a semi-regular gaming social mixer in LA/OC in 2027. I’d love to know if… You’re in the area Would be interested And what you’d like from such a thing

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 21/09/2026

"Wait, the head is real?!?" Get an inside look at @jackboxgames.com and the development of Jackbox Party Pack 12 in the new MinnMax Spotlight from Chicago! youtu.be/Aj53SRZn4VA

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was our 400th episode! I genuinely hope we can make at least 400 more

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Janet Ghoulcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Currently at $320! At $500 our cat says hello. If we get to $3500 we will keep streaming tomorrow and promise to finish the game! <3 Still plenty of stream left today so come through! Watch: twitch.tv/gamesandnotgames Donate: tiltify.com/@gamesandnot...

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Janet Ghoulcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tomorrow! 9/19 at 11 am PT me and @isaiahsmith.dev will be raising money for the American Heart Association on Twitch by playing Silent Hill 2 Remake together! We've never played (beyond the first hr or two). Watch: Twitch.tv/gamesandnotgames Donate: tiltify.com/@gamesandnot...

Promo image for the stream using the Silent Hill 2 Remake key art (but edited to have my face over the wife's and to have Isaiah in the foreground. Text on the image explains the aforementioned time, date, and url to watch

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@marklacroix.bsky.social Hey! Let's get lunch in Minneapolis soon, shoot me an email - hanson@minnmax.com

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 18/09/2026

The new episode of The MinnMax Show is live! Featuring @gameonysus.bsky.social, @kylehilliard.com, and @ohheyitsjeffm.bsky.social's early thoughts on Control Resonant, Physint talk, StarCraft hype sessions, feedback to the feedback on Wolverine, and more! youtu.be/a_7Jf0NMHRc

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oooooh I can’t wait to listen to to this!

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 17/09/2026

We're creating a three-part game club discussion on Remedy's Control Resonant and we need YOUR help! Join MinnMax's Patreon to submit comments or unlock the podcast version of The Deepest Dive, learn more here - www.patreon.com/minnmax/post...

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've spent the last 2 years working on this: (Post)[Culture] @lostincult.co.uk's new pop culture imprint. And I couldn't be more excited to announce our first project: ARCHIVE: Shinya Tsukamoto, a collaboration with, well, Shinya Tsukamoto. I've never been more proud of anything I've ever done.

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See You In Fahlstaff @fahlstaff.com · 14/09/2026

Thanks for a great first five days on the Kickstarter! www.fahl.show/kst

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why is this main character naked?

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 14/09/2026

The new Pew Pew Bang is live and we are no longer sitting in ignorance. It's time to figure out what Yoshi's deal is. Watch here or listen anywhere: youtu.be/q6kkjJrD_Ic

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And I’m seeing the devs co-developed Myst 3?

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@tolkoto.com With your Myst love, are you hip to The Journeyman Project series? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkU... store.steampowered.com/app/359420/T...

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The Journeyman Project 1: Pegasus Prime - Steam Game Trailer

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 13/09/2026

We got to raid @kelslewin.bsky.social's @pinkgorillagames.com after hours in Seattle during PAX. Unlock our full adventures in the 4-hour version by joining the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon. youtu.be/rzvwOPLqBtM

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

/noclip turns 10 today. So for the next month we're going to post a documentary a day to celebrate the people who took the time to talk to us during our first decade. First up, our first documentary. How Psyonix toiled for years to build an overnight success. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om0j...

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The Making of Rocket League - Documentary (Part 1)

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 13/09/2026

Such a joy to be part of MinnMax, and the previous week really is a great sampler platter of why

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What is this? Didn't they announce like the next 3 WOW expansions a little while ago already or something?

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I was convinced they were going to drop this music during the new Starcraft trailer...

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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

2030 is a lifetime away, but Blizzard returning to Starcraft as an open-world shooter sounds fantastic. They've already perfected the RTS twice, happy to see them try something new. Plus I bought a slim PS2 so I could play StarCraft: Ghost online, so I've been craving a new perspective for a while.

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