Mina The Hollower, Forza Horizon 6, Steam Controller Review
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 144 minutes
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Sarah Podzorski, and Janet Garcia head to Japan (digitally) to talk about the upcoming game from the creators of Yakuza/Like A Dragon called Stranger Than Heaven and review Forza Horizon 6. Then Kyle Hilliard and Jeff Marchiafava join the show to share early impressions of Mina the Hollower from the creators of Shovel Knight, get hands-on with the new Steam controller, and talk about the fantastic 90s PC vibes of Forbidden Solitiare. After that, it's nothing but your sweet community questions submitted on Patreon 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
00:01:51 - The Kyoto MinnMax meetup
00:07:29 - Stranger Than Heaven
00:19:52 - Forza Horizon 6
00:32:55 - Pocahontas County, Iowa
00:36:00 - Mina The Hollower preview
00:57:31 - Steam controller review
01:09:19 - Factor Meals
01:11:32 - Forbidden Solitaire
01:20:32 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/
01:13:48 - Community questions
02:15:19 - Get A Load Of This
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JeffM's GALOT - https://youtu.be/UtOq7ccTMwI
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Mid-Magg show, |
| 0:07.0 | Play's about games, friends are getting better. I'm joined by Jay Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of The MinMex Show. |
| 0:23.5 | Plays about games, Friends, and Getting Better. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm joined by Janet Garcia. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm joined by the one and only Sarah Podzorsky. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, my opinions on the new Fox. |
| 0:33.7 | It does not reflect my employer's opinions. |
| 0:36.7 | Please do not come for me. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay, you think he's... |
| 0:39.8 | So you're into the fox. |
| 0:40.6 | He's definitely super hot and super sexy. |
| 0:43.3 | And you like how thick his neck is? |
| 0:46.6 | I love it, Ben. |
| 0:48.7 | I think he's so good looking. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, she said it. |
| 0:52.9 | There we go, everybody. |
| 0:54.0 | This is a new episode of the MinMAC show podcast. We have a lot to talk about. We're talking about Stranger Than Heaven, which is just based on presentations that Sega's been rolling out. This is from the creators of Yakuza, like a dragon. We'll be unpacking that whole thing in a big way. We're going to be talking about Forza Horizon 6, the new racing games set in Japan. |
| 1:13.1 | We'll be unpacking that in a huge way. Then we're talking about Mina the Hollower from the creators |
| 1:17.7 | of Shovel Night. This is their... The way that they phrase it is its their take on Zelda, |
| 1:23.0 | where Shovel Nizer take on Mario. This is kind of their adventure game that's very souls inspired, but with a Game Boy color aesthetics. We'll be talking about Mina the Hollower based on a preview technically. Jeffem's going to share his thoughts on the Steam Controller, because by the way, I should have mentioned it's three of us now, but we have Kyle and Jeffem that are going to be jumping in in a little bit here. And then we'll be talking forbidden solitaire and then back half of the show. We have some wonderful questions submitted over there from the community on Patreon. Thanks for making the show better folks. Sarah, you're about to fly out to Japan for your Minmac Spotlight, your first Minx Spotlight trip. Wow. And it's in Japan. How sweet. I'm such a lucky girl. |
| 2:01.7 | You've been screaming to go to Japan for a long time. |
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