State Of Play Highlights, God Of War, Castlevania Reveal

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 151 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Janeet Garcia unpack the surprising release of a 2D God of War prequel called Sons of Sparta before Kyle regales us with the painful wonder of the Virtual Boy. Then we rundown our favorite reveals and games from the big State of Play revealing the roadmap for the PlayStation 5, we show some bloody love to Crisol: Theater of Idols, and JeffM takes us to the whimsical world of Mario Tennis Fever. Oh, we also gush about Windblown from the creators of Dead Cells! 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

00:02:34 - Mewgenics

00:04:29 - God of War: Sons of Sparta

00:25:39 - Virtual Boy

00:37:37 - Huel

00:39:54 - State of Play Highlights

00:40:37 - Saros

00:42:24 - Kena: Scars of Kosmora

00:44:50 - Crimson Moon

00:45:21 - John Wick

00:49:44 - Yakoh: Shinobi Ops

00:51:24 - Project Windless

00:55:19 - Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse

00:58:37 - Control Resonant

00:59:30 - Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2

01:01:27 - Darwin’s Paradox

01:04:09 - Silent Hill: Townfall

01:05:10 - Crisol: Theater of Idols

01:12:01 - Mint Mobile

01:14:14 - Mario Tennis Fever

01:19:36 - Windblown

01:27:42 - Tomb of the Bloodletter

01:34:47 - Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

01:39:31 - Thanking iam8bit

01:39:40 - Community Questions

02:22:35 - Get A Load Of This

02:29:37 - God of War Trilogy Remake

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Jacob's GALOT - https://youtu.be/c8lWa15-8h4?si=33VftKx6CVV0pqbY

Jacob's Shadows of the Damned article - https://plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-05-01-Shadows-of-the-Damned

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of The MinMag Show,
0:24.1	Place About Games, Friends, Getting Better.
0:26.3	Thank you for joining us.
0:27.1	I'm Ben Hansen.
0:27.8	Once again, joined by Janet Garcia.
0:30.2	Hello.
0:30.8	Join by Jacob Geller.
0:33.0	JG Squad.
0:35.0	Save that for later once Kyle bows out, but Kyle Hilliard's here as well. Very curious what the JG squad is now. Oh, you'll find out when you listen. And then Jeff Markiafava is joining us. Half the JG squad. Yeah. J-Squad and JV squad. On this episode of the podcast, we're covering so many good things. By God, last week we promised it,
0:55.6	and this week we're delivering it.
0:57.0	We're talking about some personal highlights
0:58.4	from the big PlayStation state of play
1:01.1	running through them saying some things
1:02.5	that show us in a big way.
1:04.3	We're going to be talking about God of War
1:06.0	Sons of Sparta.
1:08.3	As of last week, we didn't know
1:09.4	that we'd be playing a new God War game with the next episode.
1:13.8	But here we are.
1:14.3	We're going to talk all about that.
1:15.8	Kyle's going to regale us with what it's like to see in three dimensions after playing
1:21.6	with the virtual boy.
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