The Max Frequency Podcast

Colin Moriarty returns to discuss his PSN account being boosted, his actions to assist Sony and consumers since, and the moves Sony have to make before the impending all-digital future of the PS6.

Show Notes Four Years is a Long Time

• Naughty Dog Cancels The Last of Us Online
• PlayStation's Live-Service Initiative Could Not Have Gone Worse - Jason Schreier

PSN Hack 2.0 and the All-Digital Future

• Mr. Meaty
• Sacred Symbols #412 The Disguise It, Hypnotize It
• Joshua Khane's Microsoft account deletion
• PS5 consoles show adult games as recently played, raising PSN security issue - Notebookcheck
• #130 The Snapchat Thief - Reply All
• Sony Announces the End of Physical Games
• Hackers Are Likely Responsible For The Last Of Us Part II Leak - Kotaku
• Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection Delisted
• Syrup Engine Looking into PS3 Games
• We've Played The First PS3-Emulated Game For PS5 - Digital Foundry
• PS3 Emulation On PS5 Tested: Killzone, MotorStorm, GTA4 and Many, Many More - Digital Foundry
• Details of MLB's proposed salary cap and floor system
• EU Welcomes Apple's App Store Changes, Epic Slams 'Junk Fees' - MacRumors
• Xbox Announces Disc-to-Digital Plan
• Where Did the Price Drops Go
• PlayStation 3, Now $299
• It is Time for Hermen Hulst to Go
• 2026 is Gonna Pop Off, Right?
• Wasting a Generation – Sony's Live Service Graveyard

Colin Moriarty

• Last Stand Media Patreon
• Last Stand Media YouTube
• Twitter/X @longislandviper

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Tomas Franzese returns to the show to chat about his newsletter Remastered, being the weekend editor at Polygon, and help determine if Xbox or PlayStation is going to win the battle for "Which Company Can Be the Worst?" throughout 2026.

Show Notes Welcome

• MFP13 - "Go Back to Daddy Microsoft" with Tomas Franzese

Polygon's Weekend Editor

• Tomas' Author Page at Polygon

Remastered

• Remastered - Tomas' excellent Newsletter
• Episodic Medium
• Is Pragmata Really An Old-School Game, Or Do We Just Miss Originality? - Remastered
• Highguard Isn't The First Live Service Failure, But It's One Of The Most Worrying - Remastered
• Reviewing The Three Fortnite Games Epic Doesn't Want You To Play Anymore - Remastered
• I paid $2 a day to play an abandoned Wii Sports sequel - Digital Trends
• S1E4 - Paper Mario - Color Splash
• S6E8 - Pokémon X and Y
• This rare SNES game was lost to time. Now it's getting a second life - Digital Trends

Xbox-alypse

• The Rise And Fall Of Phil Spencer's Xbox - Remastered
• Xbox Declares the End of the Console Wars - Max Frequency
• How Things Got So Bad At Xbox - Jason Schreier
• Game Changer: Playing to win at Xbox, EA Sports and Liverpool FC - Peter Moore
• The Core of the Xbox Brand - Max Frequency
• It's still unclear if those new Fallout games will be Xbox console exclusives or not - Polygon
• The Exclusivity Wall - Max Frequency
• Retreating Behind the Exclusivity Wall - Max Frequency
• Not to Be Outdone By PlayStation and Nintendo, Xbox Raises The Prices Again - Max Frequency
• After The Xbox Layoffs, This Documentary Is Required Viewing - Remastered
• PsychOdyssey - Double Fine, YouTube
• PsychOdyssey Physical Release - Fangamer
• 2 Grounded 2 Serious - Max Frequency

The Death of Discs

• Sony Announces the End of Physical Games - Max Frequency
• Sony is Shutting Down the PS3, PSP, and Vita Stores - Max Frequency
• Sony Reverses Decision to Shut Down PS3 and Vita Stores - Max Frequency
• Burying the Insomniac Leak - Max Frequency
• Mat Piscatella's Post on PlayStation Physical Sales in 2026
• Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video
• Mr. Meaty Theme Song
• PlayStation raises Horizon Zero Dawn's PS4 price following remaster upgrade announcement - VGC
• Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Removed From Wii U Digital Store - Game Informer
• Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection - The Verge
• Affordable Space Adventures Trailer

Tomas Franzese

• Remastered
• Polygon

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Nick "Woz" Wozniak of Yacht Club Games catches up with Max to share lessons from delays, restrictions, and new adventures off the heels of releasing Mina the Hollower.

Show Notes Welcome

• BTP3 - Yacht Club Games on Kickstarter and the Future of Shovel Knight
• Mina The Hollower Review - Buried Under Ambition

Congratulations

• Mina the Hollower 500K Copies Sold Announcement
• Creator of Hit Game¬†Shovel Knight¬†Is at a 'Make or Break'¬†Moment - Bloomberg

Developmental Differences

• Shovel Knight's Kickstarter
• Mina the Hollower's Kickstarter

The Last 10% of Polish

• Mina the Hollower Interview With Nick Wozniak (Pixel Artmancer) - Mobalytics

Palettes and Perspectives

• Woz's Quote on Fighting Instincts
• "The Art of the Game" - Yacht Club Games
• Earthion
  • The Sega Genesis game Max could not remember the name of, but here is the upcoming physical cart release!
• Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999
• Let's play Neugier: The Journey Home (1993, SNES)
• Bitmap Books
  • The pixel art books Max could not remember the name of at all.

Moving to 3D

• What's Next for Shovel Knight? - Yacht Club Games
• √ñoo
  • Steam
  • Nintendo Switch

Yacht Club Games

• Website
• Steam Page

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Video essayist Kohana joins Max to have a retrospective chat about the June 2026 Nintendo Direct before diving into the differences between a review and a retrospective, good/bad thumbnails, and then their own reviews of Mina the Hollower.

Show Notes Nintendo's June 2026 Direct

• Nintendo Direct June 2026 and Treehouse Live Stream
• June 2026 Direct Press Release
• Zelda and Star Fox Rumored for Nintendo's 2026
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Teaser
• The Leak of Ocarina of Time's Remake Robbed Us
• The Spirit of Super Mario Galaxy – A Video Essay

Retrospective VS. Review

• Kohana's YouTube Channel
  • Kohana's Review Playlist
  • Kohana's Retrospective Playlist
• Mario Tennis Fever Is the Best Mario Sports Game Ever Made by Jake Steinberg
• Chapter Select Season 7 - Metroid Prime
• PrimeHack
• Elgato 4K X
• PGReviews

Good/Bad Thumbnails

• Hotcyder Thumbnails
• MFP47 - "when a youtuber shares their secret sauce" with Danny Boyd from CinemaStix
• Some Thoughts on Changing Titles and Thumbnails – Razbuten

Branching Out

• Persona 3 Retrospective - Living with Death - Kohana
• What is Nintendo's Best Game? - Kohana

Reviewing Mina the Hollower

• I'm Obsessed with Mina the Hollower - Kohana
• Mina The Hollower Review - Buried Under Ambition
• Mina the Hollower Metacritic
• Bad Hints Are Worse Than No Hints - Semi-Ramblomatic

Kohana

• Kohana's YouTube Channel
• Kohana's Bluesky

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Logan Moore and Max are back once more to press F to pay respects for the Electronic Entertainment Expo by predicting summer shenanigans from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and Geoff Keighley.

Show Notes How Did We Do in 2025?

• MFP46 - "Spice Up the SEO" with Logan Moore

Xbox 2026 Predictions Logan's Xbox 2026 Predictions

1. Asha Sharma continues Phil Spencer's legacy by wearing a bomber jacket and tee-shirt with an Xbox franchise on it.
2. No games, first- or third-party, will reveal a release date in November and December due to Grand Theft Auto VI.
3. No new Xbox Game Studios first-party games are revealed.
4. Capcom announces a new Dead Rising game.
5. Asha will announce that Halo: Campaign Evolved is no longer coming to PlayStation.

Max's Xbox 2026 Predictions

1. Asha Sharma and Matt Booty come swinging with big talk and big games. There is a major update to the XSX, possibly backward compatibility focused.
2. Asha breaks the glass and gives us Banjo & Kazooie.
3. Blade gets some air time.
4. Fallout New Vegas gets some love.
5. Overdose finally reveals gameplay.

PlayStation 2026 Predictions Logan's PlayStation 2026 Predictions

1. PlayStation does a "Showcase" instead of a "State of Play." ❌
2. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet shows up and is confirmed for next year.
3. "Wife of War" is revealed and closes out the show. Cory Barlog's face appears.
4. Horizon Hunters Gathering takes up too much time.
5. Capcom announces the Code: Veronica remake.

Max's PlayStation 2026 Predictions

1. Gameplay demo of Wolverine is shown alongside the collector's edition, which will not include the physical game.
   • Sony announced their summer "State of Play" with Marvel's Wolverine headlining the show a mere nine hours after we recorded.
2. Hermen Hulst breaks glass and announces an Uncharted game.
3. Sony Santa Monica finally reveals a game. It is the rumored Faye game. The internet wept.
4. Two Horizon projects are shown off.
5. A PS2 mascot is revived.

Nintendo 2026 Predictions Logan's Nintendo 2026 Predictions

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is revealed along with talk about the next Zelda title.
2. The Duskbloods is out in October.
3. Three remakes/remasters are announced—not Switch 2 Enhanced Editions.
4. Kid Icarus returns.
5. A new Wario game is revealed.

Max's Nintendo 2026 Predictions

1. A major update/DLC pack for Mario Kart World is announced.
2. A Luigi's Mansion game is announced.
3. Capcom announces Ace Attorney 7.
4. The next 3D Mario is revealed.
5. A new 2D Metroid game is announced.

Logan's Bonus Prediction

• Geoff Keighley will mention The Odyssey film and how his father contributed to it.
• Grand Theft Auto VI base edition price will be…
  • Logan - $70
  • Max - $80

Logan Moore - Comicbook.com

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Myke Hurley joins Max to discuss the design of a podcast, the current star-studded landscape, and the absolute roller coaster that is doing an interview show.

Show Notes A Slight Disclosure Back in the winter of 2022, Chapter Select bought an ad on Myke's show Remaster. You may read about that experience here. A Selfish Question

• Myke's love of Father of the Bride on Connected 245: Totes Ricky
  • Timestamp
• Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend
  • Music
  • Spotify
• Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend
  • Music
  • Spotify
• Jungle Essentials Playlist on Music
  • Max did indeed recognize Jungle from Tales from the Borderlands

The Podcasts Myke Listens To

• Kinda Funny
• The Rest is History
  • The JFK Assassination episodes
• The Vergecast
• Hard Fork
• Waveform
• The Town
• Diggnation
• TwiT
• Podcasts Are Group Therapy Sessions for Pro Wrestling Fans by Nicholas Deleon for Vice

The Current Landscape

• Steve Jobs Announcing Podcasts in iTunes at WWDC 2005
• Amy Poehler Wins Best Podcast
• Joe Rogan Goes Exclusive to Spotify
• Netflix and iHeartMedia Announce Exclusive Video Podcast Partnership
• Netflix just unveiled its first big podcasts that are all-new
• Riverside
• State of the Workflow: Going From a Newsroom to Being Independent, With Becca Farsace
  • One of Myke's Instagram Clips

Designing a Podcast

• Cortex #167 - Ten Years of Cortex

Designing State of the Workflow

• CMD Space #1 - I'm Yelling At Me, With Merlin Mann
• Proving Something to Myself – The Enthusiast
• Scott the Woz
• Which YouTuber Knows Apple's Silly Lingo Best? – Snazzy Labs
• Cortex #174: Marques Brownlee (MKBHD)
• MFP03 - "Cuddle Up & Play the Vita" with Roger Pokorny

Podcasting and Fatherhood

• Cortex #162: 2025 Yearly Themes
  • Timestamp to Myke's reveal of "The Year of Fatherhood"

Myke Hurley

• Relay
• Cortex Brand
• Cross Forward
• The Enthusiast - Myke's Blog
• Myke's Instagram
• Myke's Bluesky

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Mark from Mark's Rec Room yaps with Max about his mission to cover all of the Nintendo party games, his dedication to capturing off real hardware, and the dire state of online recipes.

You can download a copy of this episode's transcript here.

Show Notes Star Fox Brothers

• I Miss the Old Star Fox by Mark
• I Played EVERY Star Fox Game… Here's What I Learned by wizawhat
• Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
• MFP49 - "The Children Yearn for the Mines" with wizawhat

Becoming the Party Game Man

• An Excessively Detailed Wii Party U Retrospective by Mark
• Iwata Asks: Wii Party
• Nintendo Cube (NDcube)
• Hudson Soft
• An Excessively Detailed Mario Party 9 Retrospective by Mark
• EGM's Ocarina of Time Reviews
• Shrek Super Party
• Sonic Shuffle
• Dreamcast VMU
• I Played Nintendo Games for 60 Days to Get My Life Together by Mark
• Cargodin, Mark's Thumbnail Artist
• Wii Vitality Sensor

A Recipe Management Digression

• Personal Trainer: Cooking
• America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking
• Mela, Recipe App
• The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook

Shorts Philosophy

• Why do the Koopas Dance? by Mark
• Painting an Interactive Musical Landscape by Koji Kondo from GDC 2007

The Missing Party Games

• Fortune Street
• Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival
• Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival Reveal
• Animal Crossing Plaza
• Animal Crossing Plaza Reveal
• The Animal Crossing Grass Controversy, Explained by Mark
• Animal Crossing City Folk Deluxe Mod
• Animal Crossing Deluxe Mod

The RECording Room

• EON Super 64
• Retro-Bit Prism GameCube HDMI Adapter
• Nintendo DS USB Video Capture Board
• Nintendo 3DS Video Capture Board
• EVERY MARIO PARTY MINIGAME RANKED by Weegee Plays
• Which Classic Mario Party Has The Best Minigames? by Mark

Mario Party Math

• Chance Time by KingK

Mark's Rec Room - Mark's Rec Room YouTube Channel - Mark's Instagram - Mark's Bluesky

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Wii U Head and Donkey Kong fan wizawhat returns to the show to breakdown the Donkey Kong Bananza Direct from June 2025.

You can download a copy of this episode's transcript here.

Show Notes Welcome

• MFP40 - "Peering into My Soul" with wizawhat

More Switch 2 Chatter

• Nintendo Switch 2 sets record
• GameStop Switch 2 Stapler Disaster

A Summer Direct?

• Rumored July Switch 2 Direct
• Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal Thoughts & Impressions

Mario Kart World

• The Mount Wario-ification of Mario Kart – hotcyder
• The Tetris effect (not the game)
• F-Zero 99 is the Nintendo I Missed – wizawhat

Donkey Kong Bananza

• My Thoughts On the Switch 2 – wizawhat
• Donkey Kong Bananza Direct
• I'm Kind Of Torn On Donkey Kong Bananza – wizzy
• King K. Rool Reveal Trailer, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Banjo-Kazooie Reveal Trailer, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Nintendo Doesn't Worry About Donkey Kong Lore And Neither Should You
• Alright… I Think I'm Sold On Donkey Kong Bananza – wizzy
• Donkey Kong Bananza Made Me FEEL THINGS – Tri
• How Game Designers Protect Players From Themselves – GMTK
• Wiz's Golden Nugget (Possible Spoilers)
• Splatoon Raiders Announcement Trailer
• The Best Thing ARMS Gave Us Was Its Theme

Wrap-Up

• The SWAP is the Sauce in Ruffy and the Riverside – wizzy
• I Have a Problem with HDMI Capture

Wizawhat - Wizawhat's YouTube Channel - The Second Channel - Wizawhat's Patreon

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Marc "Try4ce" Duddleson and Coury Carlson from My Life in Gaming return to the show to talk about the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, games, and experiences integrating it into our setups.

You can download a copy of this episode's transcript here.

Show Notes Welcome

• MFP38 -"Everyone Get Together for a Hootenanny" with Marc "Try4ce" Duddleson
• MFP31 - "The Release Date of this House" with Coury Carlson
• Coury's Studio Tour – My Life in Gaming

Celebrating Switch 1

• Nintendo Switch 1 Celebration - Our Favorites & Disappointments over 8 Years – My Life in Gaming
• Donut Dodo

Our Switch 2 Launch Experiences

• Switch 2's GameChat looks awful, but is FUN – The Verge

Setup Integration and HDMI Problems

• Max's Setup
• Coury's Setup
• Try's Setup (sorta)
• Max's Capture Issue Saga
  • I Have a Problem with Elgato
  • Elgato has a Switch 2 Problem
  • I Have a Problem with Elgato and Switch 2
  • I Have a Problem with HDMI Capture
  • HDMI Gremlin Evicted
• Hidden Switch 2 Setting Fixes HDR Calibration – My Life in Gaming
• HDTVTest Switch 2 HDR Calibration
• Original OEM XSX HDMI 2.1 Cable from LEVEL Hike (Non-Affiliate / Affiliate)

Backward Compatibility

• Nintendo Switch 2 Backward Compatibility Tested – Modern Vintage Gamer
• DF Switch 2 Launch Madness
• Nintendo's Backward Compatibility Notices and Lists
• A Hidden 60fps Mode In Xenoblade Chronicles X Gives Us Hope For A Switch 2 Upgrade – Nintendo Life
• Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Code May Hint at Nintendo Switch 2 Capabilities – Game Rant

Future Games

• Splatoon Raiders Trailer
• Traveling with the Wii U
• Nintendo Switch 1 Reveal Kickstand

My Life in Gaming

• My Life in Gaming's YouTube Channel
• My Life in Gaming's Patreon
• My Life in Gaming Stream
• My Life in Gaming Instagram
• Backloggery Twitch
• Try's Backloggery
• Coury's Backloggery

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.

Max Roberts' Video Essays - A YouTube channel dedicated to Max's video essays on games.

Danny Boyd of CinemaStix sits down with Max to explain why the algorithm isn't that complicated, the art behind a funky title/thumbnail combo, and how to dance with the DMCA.

You can download a copy of this episode's transcript here.

Show Notes Welcome

• when you realize you've been watching the cropped version this whole time (Batman: The Mask of Phantasm)
• yep, turns out the movie still works without all the exposition (The Bourne Identity)
• Every Frame a Painting

The Last Movie Danny Watched

• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning | The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History
• Henry Cavill's Mustache

Every Frame a Painting and Influence

• Return of the King and Queen
• The Second – A Short Film by Every Frame a Painting
• when the director dabbles in some color theory (Baby Driver)
• Radiolab

The CinemaStix Timeline

• From the director of CinemaStix: May Edition
• Celebrating 15 Years of Podcasting
• Penny Voxel

Building a Runway

• Nerdwriter
• Max Roberts Essays
• MFP33 - "The Knowledge of Fire" with Brian Henken
• From the director of CinemaStix: April Edition
• MFP31 - "The Release Date of this House" with Coury Carlson

Titles and Thumbnails

• when you find a way to dance in every movie you're in (Sam Rockwell)
• CinemaStix Videos
• when the sequel surpasses the original (Spider-Man 2)

Presenting Art

• Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod
• The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Marathon in 2012
• Marvel's 60-hour Marathon before Endgame

DMCA Dance

• man they really didn't want me showing you this one (Charlie Chaplin)
• Why HBO's The Last of Us is a Failure of Adaptation by Writing on Games
• Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini
• bro, they had to know they were giving us one of the greatest characters in movie history (Aragorn)
• Nebula

CinemaStix - CinemaStix YouTube Channel - CinemaStix Patreon - CinemaStix Nebula - CinemaStix Newsletter

Max Frequency - Max's home online

Chapter Select - A seasonal, retrospective podcast where we bounce back and forth between a series exploring its evolution, design, and legacy.