Welcome to a special episode of The MinnMax Show! Ben Hanson is joined by MinnMax contributor and co-director of the Video Game History Foundation Kelsey Lewin, localization superstar (and Sarah's former boss) from 8-4 John Ricciardi, and the founder of Giant Bomb/his new Patreon Jeff Gerstmann. We talk about Jeff leaving Giant Bomb a bit out of the gate before diving in to how to preserve game history. Then we talk about the HD-2D remake of Square's Live A Live on the Nintendo Switch, Kelsey shares her thoughts on Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak and the rumored successor to Monster Hunter: World, and we unpack the new Bloomberg article about the healthy but slow development of Grand Theft Auto 6. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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Here are some links/plugs mentioned in the show...

https://www.patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

http://enjoyyourgaming.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8-4-play/id393557569

https://gamehistory.org/

GTA 6 article - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/gta-6-release-date-rockstar-cleans-up-image-after-employee-backlash

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:53 - Jeff Gerstmann on launching his Patreon

00:15:28 - How to preserve game history

00:43:28 - Live A Live

00:58:08 - Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

01:07:41 - The first real details on GTA VI

01:13:46 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

01:16:31 - Community questions

01:53:09 - Get A Load Of This

Jeff's GALOT - https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/vince-mcmahon-steps-down-as-wwe-ceo-and-chairman-during-investigation-of-alleged-misconduct/

John's GALOT - https://youtu.be/yt4KG9ib8S4

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.thedrive.com/news/44323/how-interstate-highways-get-their-numbers

Kelsey's GALOT - https://www.fanbyte.com/news/the-curious-case-of-nier-automatas-newly-discovered-church/

Community GALOT - https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/genndy-tartakovskys-popeye-animatic-video-leaked-219062.html

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Ghost of Tsushima - ProcyonNumber6

Earth Defense Force 2017 - ErinJBear

Jak and Daxter - SteveB

Wordle - PrettyGoodPrinting.com

Spy Fox in: Dry Cereal - Clemens Zobel

Journey - Spider_Dan

BioShock - Maniac

The Addams Family Pinball Machine (Bally, 1992) - Bob Buel

Elite Beat Agents - Divorced Cougar (Mike M)

Snowboard Kids 2 - Tanner

Borderlands - Jawarhello

Viva Piñata - Nickfilo

God Hand - Patrick Polk

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