Our Most Anticipated Games Of 2026

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, and Jacob Geller share picks for their most-anticipated games of 2026 in this big episode of The MinnMax Show! From big games like GTA VI and Resident Evil Requiem to smaller, more promising games on the horizon like Orbitals and Ontos. Then we talk about the new release of the autobiographical adventure game Perfect Tides: Station to Station. 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 - Support the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

00:03:46 - Most Anticipated Games of 2026

00:05:08 - Saros

00:07:26 - Denshattack!

00:08:51 - Screamer

00:11:12 - Slay The Spire II

00:13:16 - Rhythm Heaven Groove

00:16:18 - GTA VI

00:19:59 - Orbitals

00:24:05 - Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast From The Past!

00:25:28 - 500 CALIBER CONTRACTZ

00:27:27 - Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

00:30:00 - Dinolords

00:33:01 - The StarCraft Third-Person game

00:34:40 - Project Robot

00:35:29 - Ontos

00:38:13 - Resident Evil Requiem

00:43:12 - Stranger Than Heaven

00:45:21 - Control: Resonant

00:47:11 - Big Walk

00:49:27 - Over The Hill

00:50:58 - Duskbloods

00:53:54 - PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

00:57:40 - Reanimal

00:59:05 - Pragmata

01:05:07 - Turtle Beach

01:06:52 - Alanah Pearce's big mysterious game tease

01:07:19 - Virtue and a Sledgehammer

01:08:19 - Pokémon Pokopia

01:10:16 - Anticipated games of 2026 rapid-fire

01:14:18 - Mint Mobile

01:16:12 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station

01:29:12 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:32:40 - Community questions

02:10:36 - Get A Load Of This

Kelsey's GALOT - https://www.ign.com/articles/gamestop-says-its-shut-down-a-nintendo-switch-2-trade-in-exploit-that-worked-as-an-infinite-money-glitch

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4oED1q-R5Q

Hanson's GALOT -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMa5xbjL3BU

Kyle's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M8H99x7Y

Community GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/jamesgunn.bsky.social/post/3mcv75iahus2p

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