Gamescom's Best Reveals, Sword of the Sea, Sakurai's Sassy Nintendo Direct

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Video Games, Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 145 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Kyle Hilliard, and Jacob Geller unpack the best moments and biggest reveals from Geoff Keighley's Gamescom Opening Night Live before unpacking the unusual tone and situation behind Masahiro Sakurai's Nintendo Direct on Kirby Air Riders. Then we celebrate some great new games like Sword of the Sea, Öoo, and Wheel World. Oh, and we talk about Drag X Drive on the Nintendo Switch 2! 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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00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:38 - Announcing The Deepest Dive

00:06:20 - Get a Steam code for Sunderfolk

00:07:39 - Gamescom Opening Night Live Recap

00:18:45 - Bubsy 4D

00:23:01 - Denshattack!

00:24:30 - Road Kings

00:28:52 - PVKK Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

00:32:12 - LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

00:35:03 - Unbeatable

00:38:37 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Legacy of the Forge DLC

00:40:01 - Resident Evil Requiem

00:42:36 - Hello Fresh

00:44:19 - Kirby Air Riders

00:58:00 - Drag X Drive

01:07:27 - Öoo

01:14:01 - Sword of the Sea

01:27:47 - Wheel World

01:35:31 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:37:43 - Community questions

02:11:24 - Get A Load Of This

Haley’s GALOT - https://www.bigwinboard.com/divina-commedia-i-nove-cerchi-playn-go-slot-review/

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofJeopardy/videos

Hanson's GALOT - https://youtu.be/mdP9q0Dy80Y?si=IY3AxcUIM_wGdTb9

Kyle's GALOT - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comedy-bang-bang-the-podcast/id316045799?i=1000719456800

Community GALOT - https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/comments/1mviqdx/what_are_you_standing_up_for_moment_at_ewc_spoiler/

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0:00.0	M-I-N-N-M-A-X, that's mid-M-A-X.
0:20.0	M-I-N-N-M-A-X. That's Mid-M-M-M-M-M-M-A-X. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the new episode of The Min-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-S show. I'm Ben Hanson, and this is a place about games, friends, and getting better. Thank you for being here. I'm joined by Haley McLean. Hi. I'm joined by Kelly Hilliard. I'm just impressed by that cheer, Jacob.
0:22.2	You really came through on that when like it's it's already stuck in my head I'm in front where do you get your ideas from Jacob Geller now you have to include the cheer at the beginning of the episode yeah m I N-M-A-X what What was it? And that's the show.
0:56.7	The Mickey Mouse.
0:57.4	No, no, no.
0:57.7	It's original.
0:58.5	It's original. No, no.
0:59.1	It's original.
0:59.5	It's original. The min-Max cheer. Hey, Kyle, you're like a math fiend, right? I'm married to one. Yeah. Okay. how many combinations
0:51.8	if it was only
0:53.8	four people
0:55.2	on the Minmac show for every episode
0:57.6	with nine cohorts,
1:14.1	how many possible unique groups could we have?
1:17.6	Take a guess.
1:18.4	Hold on.
1:19.1	Let me look at the back of a Borderlands box and see how many guns it has.
1:22.8	Right, right.
1:23.3	It's kind of like that.
1:24.2	So like 50 bagillion, I think?
1:26.3	Very close.
1:27.7	56. If that's not of like that. So like 50 bagillion, I think? Very close. 56, if that's not really.
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