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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, and Leo Vader are joined by Game Informer's Charles Harte to unpack the excellent Hades 2 from Supergiant Games. Then Kelsey Lewin and Sarah Podzorski join the show to talk about Consume Me, Silent Hill F, Blippo +, Road To Empress, Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree. After that, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier joins the podcast to talk about EA going private and Final Fantasy Tactics. 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
00:02:17 - Hades 2
00:26:28 - Consume Me
00:41:22 - Silent Hill F
00:50:39 - Blippo +
01:02:37 - Road To Empress
01:09:17 - Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree
01:15:33 - Welcome Bloomberg's Jason Schreier
01:17:23 - Final Fantasy Tactics
01:40:27 - EA Goes Private
02:00:30 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/
02:03:24 - Community questions
02:49:58 - Get A Load Of This
Sarah's GALOT - https://thepopinsider.com/twilight-crocs-news/
Hanson's GALOT - https://youtu.be/Uu5jVmIZBhE?si=cLc9LXvrXfbZsOtk
Community GALOT - https://gamehistory.org/william-volk-papers/
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