Our Predictions For 2026 (And Maddy Myers!)

The MinnMax Show

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 147 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, and Kyle Hilliard gather together for the 5th year in a row to check in on their predictions from the previous year AND accurately predict every big game and enormous piece of gaming news from 2026. Then we talk about the approchable roguelike deck builder called Dogpile before Triple Click's Maddy Myers joins us to talk about launching her new gaming site called Mothership! 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 - Checking in on our 2025 Predictions

00:22:23 - Factor Meals

00:23:53 - 2026 Predictions

00:49:45 - Rapid-Fire 2026 Predictions

01:15:28 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:16:27 - Maddy Myers on her new site Mothership

01:22:12 - Community questions

02:16:54 - Get A Load Of This

JeffM's GALOT - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eric-adams-promoted-memecoin-crashes-160110674.html

Hanson's GALOT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance

Janet''s GALOT - https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/6890891/Super-Impulse-Worlds-Smallest-Bananagra[…]DQmcD0wJm49b3I1ZFJUY2pmdmY5QTJYc3h5Q2ExZyZ0PUFBQUFBR2xuNTFr

Community GALOT - https://youtu.be/CxwrCRdqZb8

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of The Minmac Show,
0:23.6	place about games, friends, are getting better.
0:25.2	My name is Ben Hansen, and I'm joined by the Face One, Kyle Hilliard.
0:30.9	The Face One.
0:32.1	Now with more face than ever after he's shaven.
0:34.5	I'm joined by Jeff Marcia Fava.
0:36.5	That's me.
0:37.4	And I'm joined by the newquisava. That's me. And I'm joined by the new
0:39.1	hair, Jana Garcia. Hello. I feel like Kyle's lack of hair distracted from my lack of hair.
0:46.5	Right. You know what I mean? It's like, I can't have anything in this damn company.
0:51.7	Yeah, everyone watching this on YouTube's like, I can't look away from Kyle's face. There's so many more points to look at it. It's like the person with less hair and likes platformers, it doesn't really matter who it is. Are we, well, what's our direction here. You can't. I don't know what direction you can't. Give up, give up, give up. Welcome to this episode. You're too powerful. Welcome, everybody. We got a lot of ground to cover on this year episode of the podcast.
1:13.0	It is all about predicting everything that's going to happen in the year of our Lord 2026. We're going to run through the entire year to the point that you can just like check out from all gaming news for the entire year because this is going to be so accurate. You're going to be completely set. but before we do that, we need to check in because last year, let me look at this,
1:29.4	we confidently predicted everything that was going to happen in 2025.
1:32.7	Did we succeed or fail?
1:34.7	I'll run down the stats.
1:36.2	We'll get all of it out there.
1:38.7	We're also going to be talking about some newish games that Jeff and other folks have been excited
1:42.5	about, like Dogpile.
1:44.9	Remember that old, uh, search, web search site dog pile, Kyle?
1:50.9	Seems up your alley.
1:52.1	Uh, yeah, I don't, I used it occasionally.
1:54.4	Yeah.
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