Summer Game Fest Predictions, Subnautica 2, Yoshi's Book

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jeff Marchiafava, and Kyle Hilliard get in the summer mood by attempting to predict Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest Showcase and the biggest reveals from PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo. Then we celebrate the release of Subnautica 2 in early access and share early impressions for Alabaster Dawn from the creators of CrossCode. Oh, and JeffM has a new roguelike inspired by chess to share called Gambonanza. 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

00:02:00 - 007 First Light Deepest Dive

00:03:03 - Yoshi and the Mysterious Book

00:10:34 - Win a code for Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted

00:11:26 - Summer Game Fest predictions

00:47:44 - Subnautica 2

01:03:30 - Alabaster Dawn

01:11:00 - Gambonanza

01:18:43 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:20:51 - Community questions

02:29:53 - Get A Load Of This

Kelsey’s GALOT - https://kotaku.com/stores-at-a-loss-for-words-after-being-sent-sealed-copies-of-rare-ps4-game-poop-slinger-2000696767

JeffM's GALOT - https://youtu.be/s_aNH4hXz8I

Hanson's GALOT - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Old_English/I-mutation

Kyle's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POneS8h1jyU

Community GALOT - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/an-open-world-middle-earth-rpg-from-kingdom-come-studio-is-officially-happening/1100-6540053/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a new episode of the MinMAC show.
0:23.9	Plays About Games, Friends, Getting Better, joined by Jeff Marcia Thava.
0:28.0	It's me.
0:28.9	Joined by Kyle Hilliard.
0:31.1	Hey, oh, keeping my face on.
0:32.7	That's right.
0:33.1	Joined by Kelsey Lewin.
0:35.6	Still undecided on face status. I don't know if I'm going to keep it or not. Okay. Might swap it out. This is how we improve our retention stats on YouTube is tune into the rest of the show to see if we keep our faces on or if we rip off our own flesh at some point through this episode. And it's a very fun episode. We have a lot to cover. First of all, summer game fest. Coming up
0:54.8	damn quick, Kelsey Lewin's going to be flying out to L.A. for a couple days to go to that big event, preview some games, all that fun stuff with Janet and her lovely husband Isaiah is going to be joining as well. And so look forward to that. But we're going to be talking about our predictions for Summer Game Fest, because we are approaching very quickly the big season, the reason for the season.
1:13.7	And then later on in the show we're
1:15.6	going to be talking about sub nautica two out in early access and destroying every sales start
1:20.9	imaginable it's just dragging every other game to the depths of the ocean based on how well this
1:26.1	game is selling so we're going to talk about that um alabaster don which is the next game from the creators of the ocean based on how well this game is selling. So we're going to talk about that.
1:43.4	Alabaster Don, which is the next game from the creators of Crosscode. If you remember that indie hit from a while ago. And then Jeffem, of course, wants to talk about a game called Gambonanza. And you might say, maybe this is like a chess rogue-like. Maybe it's something else entirely. maybe Jeffman will surprise us and it's a genre
1:44.1	that you never could see coming.
1:46.0	But we'll get to it later in the show.
1:47.5	And then back half
1:48.1	of the show, of course, we have wonderful questions submitted by the Patreon supporters over there.
1:53.4	If supporters at any tier, even that $2 tier, you can submit a question and help make the show better
1:57.3	each and every week. So look forward to that. There's a lot going on in this whole wide world.
2:04.0	Next week of the Minmec show, there's a lot of games that we will have our hands on and we can share some actual reviewy thoughts.
2:12.0	For example, 007 First Light.
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