Hades 2 Review, Silent Hill F, EA's Buyout With Jason Schreier

The MinnMax Show

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 183 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, and Leo Vader are joined by Game Informer's Charles Harte to unpack the excellent Hades 2 from Supergiant Games. Then Kelsey Lewin and Sarah Podzorski join the show to talk about Consume Me, Silent Hill F, Blippo +, Road To Empress, Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree. After that, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier joins the podcast to talk about EA going private and Final Fantasy Tactics. 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

00:02:17 - Hades 2

00:26:28 - Consume Me

00:41:22 - Silent Hill F

00:50:39 - Blippo +

01:02:37 - Road To Empress

01:09:17 - Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree

01:15:33 - Welcome Bloomberg's Jason Schreier

01:17:23 - Final Fantasy Tactics

01:40:27 - EA Goes Private

02:00:30 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

02:03:24 - Community questions

02:49:58 - Get A Load Of This

Leo’s GALOT - https://theconversation.com/paracetamol-use-during-pregnancy-not-linked-to-autism-our-study-of-2-5-million-children-shows-265919

Sarah's GALOT - https://thepopinsider.com/twilight-crocs-news/

Hanson's GALOT - https://youtu.be/Uu5jVmIZBhE?si=cLc9LXvrXfbZsOtk

Community GALOT - https://gamehistory.org/william-volk-papers/

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the MinMAC Show podcast,
0:24.1	place about games, friends are getting better.
0:25.7	Thank you for being here.
0:26.8	I'm Ben Hansen, joined by Leo Vader.
0:29.8	Hello, I've got a sore thigh muscle today.
0:32.8	So people who complain about me bouncing around at my standing desk on the video version,
0:37.0	it's going to be the same, but it'll hurt me more so you can take some satisfaction out of that.
0:42.6	Please do it. And the flawless Haley McLean.
0:47.2	What do people? My voice will be even lower than normal. The people that complain about that.
0:51.9	Oh, no. Hoof.
0:54.5	We're joined by Charles Hart.
0:58.7	Hey, guys, my voice is a little bit higher than normal,
1:01.6	and my thighs are limber and lean, ready to swing.
1:05.6	So I'll be making up for the two of you.
1:08.3	Pick me.
1:09.0	Here we go.
1:09.7	Pick me, Charles.
1:10.7	Which reminds me, which reminds me.
1:11.5	We're going to be playing consume me and talking about it later on this very podcast.
1:15.6	But Charles is here from Game Informer to inform us about the ways of Hades 2.
1:20.8	We're going to be unpacking that in a fun, spoiler-free way.
1:24.3	Then we're also talking about Silent Hill F.
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