Doom: The Dark Ages, Control's Spin-Off, Despelote

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Video Games, Leisure, Games

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 153 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Haley MacLean, Jacob Geller, Leo Vader, and special guest Charles Harte talk about Remedy's new co-op first-person shooter set in the Control universe called FBC: Firebreak. Then we get whisked away by the wonder of the soccer-centric game about Ecuador called Despelote and unpack Id's new entry in the iconic franchise with Doom: The Dark Ages. 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

00:04:36 - FBC: Firebreak

00:29:45 - Turtle Beach

00:31:51 - Despelote

00:55:47 - Hello Fresh

00:58:19 - The BDS Movement and Microsoft

01:03:04 - Doom: The Dark Ages

01:13:41 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:16:53 - Community questions

02:09:44 - Get A Load Of This

Leo’s GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9GTp2Rk9Q8

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.reddit.com/r/GodofWar/comments/18mudtu/david_jaffes_original_ending_for_kratos_cory/

Janet's GALOT - https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-fan-crochets-during-garrett-crochet-starts

Hanson's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/jparish.bsky.social/post/3lov7lhewis2t

Charles' GALOT - https://supercincyexpo.com/

Community GALOT - https://gizmodo.com/labubus-creator-on-the-ugly-cute-sensation-thats-taken-over-the-world-2000600397

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Min-Magg show, Place About Games, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of The MinMag Show,
0:23.9	a place about games, friends, getting better.
0:25.4	I'm Ben Hansen.
0:26.2	We keep stacking these episodes.
0:27.8	It just happens to work out that way, where a lot of people want to jump it at one time,
0:31.4	and we say the more the merrier, because we're joined by Jacob Geller.
0:34.4	I'm here.
0:35.0	We're joined by Janet Garcia.
0:37.1	Hello.
0:40.3	We're joined by Haley. I pluck McLean. Something's in my eye. Get it out!
0:42.3	Special guest Charles Hart, sir.
0:45.3	Hey-o!
0:46.3	Hey-o! Welcome back, Randy Pitchford.
0:49.3	Welcome. What is your title at Game Informer these days?
0:52.3	Associate Editor.
0:55.0	There we go.
0:56.0	How's that feeling over there, full timer?
0:58.0	It's good, it's good.
0:59.0	I mean, I'm now the only associate editor, I think, because the other one's got promoted to senior associate editor.
1:05.0	So I'm kind of at the top of my own little food chain, you know?
1:09.0	That's right.
1:11.5	That's a glass-deflable way to think about it. I like it.
	...

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