State Of Play Reveals, God Of War: Laufey, Luna Abyss Review

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Leo Vader, and Kyle Hilliard share their favorite games and reveals from the big kick-off to the summer gaming reveal season with Sony's State of Play. The big talker is a new God of War game from Santa Monica Studio starring Kratos' wife Laufey in the afterlife. We also unpack Insomniac's Wolverine, Ace Combat 8, Rayman Legends Retold, and a whole lot more. Then we shed some light on two great independent games recently released called Luna Abyss and Motorslice. 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

00:05:51 - God of War: Laufey

00:35:28 - God of War: Sons of Sparta spoilers

00:36:44 - Back to God of War: Laufey

00:39:07 - Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

00:41:41 - September's wild release schedule

00:43:10 - Silent Hill Townfall

00:44:31 - Marvel's Wolverine

00:54:09 - Stuntman: Hollywood

01:00:46 - The Lost Wild

01:03:34 - Rayman Legends Retold

01:14:14 - Kemuri

01:18:09 - Until Dawn 2

01:23:32 - Luna Abyss

01:32:47 - Motorslice

01:43:26 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:45:21 - Community questions

02:33:45 - Get A Load Of This

Leo’s GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOfOPEQ8HM

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.sega-16.com/2026/05/interview-mike-fischer-soa-product-manager-vp/

Hanson's GALOT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_round_world_dilemma

Janet's GALOT - https://us.filofax.com/collections/collections

Community GALOT - https://wavelengths.online/posts/welcome-to-overworld

https://www.overworld.vg/

Clips

God of War Camera Clash

$100K vs. No Fall Damage

Motor Slice Gets Horny

Leo’s Lake-House Merch Pitch

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First 90 seconds

Ben Hanson· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of the Midnight Show, a place about games, friends, and getting better. I am Ben Hanson, joined by Jacob Geller.
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:26
Finally, you let me back on one of these things.
Ben Hanson· Host0:29
Uh, how long has it been?
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:30
[laughs] Five weeks.
Ben Hanson· Host0:32
Are you serious?
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:33
Maybe.
Kyle Hilliard· Panelist0:35
It's been a while.
Janet Garcia· Panelist0:35
I think it's cool that you count the weeks.
Ben Hanson· Host0:36
That... I, I count the seconds I'm away from you, Jacob.
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:39
I've played so many games- We're writing the letters ... that I haven't given takes about 'cause y'all just already talked about 'em.
Ben Hanson· Host0:43
[laughs] All right, we're gonna be talking about some of those games on this episode of the podcast, and then we have an episode coming up that's gonna be about kind of- Subnautica is good ... a bunch of other games we played. Oh, you're... You got into Subnautica too?
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:51
Yeah. I mean, I loved the first one, but I think I'm gonna m- mostly wait till 1.0 for this.
Ben Hanson· Host0:56
Interesting. I didn't think you were a survival games guy.
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:58
Subnautica's the one. I think it, I think it rocks.
Ben Hanson· Host1:02
Interesting. Okay, we might have to reconvene, 'cause it's always that situation of, like, what's the early access things? Do we grip it and rip it this year for two 10s? And I'm kind of in that camp for Subnautica too, unless I would pivot. How are you feeling about it?
Jacob Geller· Panelist1:13
I, uh, it's... [laughs] There's a word in the intro. Subnautica has sections where you go, and it's like there will be more stuff here later- Yeah ... which, which I reached in the first, like, 45 minutes of playing, uh, versus, like, Slay the Spire, which I, d- doesn't really exist, you know? They're just

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