Episode Description
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, and Jacob Geller share picks for their most-anticipated games of 2026 in this big episode of The MinnMax Show! From big games like GTA VI and Resident Evil Requiem to smaller, more promising games on the horizon like Orbitals and Ontos. Then we talk about the new release of the autobiographical adventure game Perfect Tides: Station to Station. 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 submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:16 - Support the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
00:03:46 - Most Anticipated Games of 2026
00:05:08 - Saros
00:07:26 - Denshattack!
00:08:51 - Screamer
00:11:12 - Slay The Spire II
00:13:16 - Rhythm Heaven Groove
00:16:18 - GTA VI
00:19:59 - Orbitals
00:24:05 - Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast From The Past!
00:25:28 - 500 CALIBER CONTRACTZ
00:27:27 - Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
00:30:00 - Dinolords
00:33:01 - The StarCraft Third-Person game
00:34:40 - Project Robot
00:35:29 - Ontos
00:38:13 - Resident Evil Requiem
00:43:12 - Stranger Than Heaven
00:45:21 - Control: Resonant
00:47:11 - Big Walk
00:49:27 - Over The Hill
00:50:58 - Duskbloods
00:53:54 - PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant
00:57:40 - Reanimal
00:59:05 - Pragmata
01:05:07 - Turtle Beach
01:06:52 - Alanah Pearce's big mysterious game tease
01:07:19 - Virtue and a Sledgehammer
01:08:19 - Pokémon Pokopia
01:10:16 - Anticipated games of 2026 rapid-fire
01:14:18 - Mint Mobile
01:16:12 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station
01:29:12 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/
01:32:40 - Community questions
02:10:36 - Get A Load Of This
Kelsey's GALOT - https://www.ign.com/articles/gamestop-says-its-shut-down-a-nintendo-switch-2-trade-in-exploit-that-worked-as-an-infinite-money-glitch
Jacob's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4oED1q-R5Q
Hanson's GALOT -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMa5xbjL3BU
Kyle's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M8H99x7Y
Community GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/jamesgunn.bsky.social/post/3mcv75iahus2p
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