Capcom Division 1 has started a "Capcom Confidential" podcast

I thought this was an interesting little move out of the blue. Capcom Division 1 is starting a podcast, starring Pete Fabiano and Matt Walker from Capcom (both are people who have worked for Capcom for years and recently became producers at the company, Matt was a programmer originally while Pete was a voice director originally but did a few roles, and many Resident Evil fans may recognize as he was the model for and did the voice of Pete of the Sewer Gaters in Resident Evil 7). The podcast seems to be focused on sharing the stories from developers within Capcom and to share more exposure on people who make games.

If you don't know what Capcom Division 1 is, they're the 1st primary studio at Capcom, they most famously work on the Resident Evil and Devil May Cry games.

It's not clear how regular this podcast will be, but they released a small 'teaser' episode and say the first full episode will "hopefully" be ready on June 8th. Guess to see what comes of this, it's very unusual a game developer starts a podcast, especially a Japanese developer (Capcom Division 1 is in Japan even though the two people running this are English speakers). Curious what might come of all of this!

Cyberpunk said:

Thats great , Hoping for some cryptic teasers in that podcast for what they will show in E3

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While I think many will, I'm taking it on face value since I legitimately am interested in just hearing developer stories. Game developers often don't get any spotlight behind the scenes, I'm sure there's some very interesting stories to be told in a company like Capcom, where some people have been working there for 20-30 years even.

Akiller said:

I think this and the whole Div 1 Twitter account exist thanks to Matt and Pete. A great way to stay close to the fans, and Capcom really needs it.

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I get the sense too. I know Pete became a producer recently, and Matt I'm not as certain about, but this Twitter and Podcast surfaced recently after at least Pete's promotion, so I am certain it's Pete and Matt who've made Capcom Division 1 more public and with a face recently.

Tsosie said:

This is super cool. I hope they get into the nitty-gritty of development. I doubt there will ever be new announcements on something like this. I think it will be more about them talking about decisions from previous projects, for example how division 1 decided to go first person on RE7. Those types of topics would turn this into a must listen.

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This is where I'm at, I doubt this is the venue where they'll spill company reveals, but probably a lot about people within Capcom. I think there's a lot of interesting potential for this even with just developer stories being shared from people within the company and talks about past projects Capcom worked on.

Rockman ZX said:

Cool, Loved the Bionic Commando podcast, and the Capcom-Unity podcast wasn't bad either.

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colinp said:

Ben Judd had a podcast while he was at Capcom Osaka way back in the day (Top Secret: A Bionic Commando Podcast). It's not like this is without precedent.

Also there's a Monster Hunter podcast but it's all in Japanese.

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I knew about the Monster Hunter podcast (though to my understanding it's more similar to those talk shows Japanese do than about the company stories or anything like that itself), but not the Bionic Commando podcast. What was that one about?

I get the impression this one is focused more on stories from within Capcom and some development stuff, assume the Bionic Commando one may be similar? I admit I'm happy this one is being done in English unlike the MH one, but I'm all for seeing what comes of this in a week's time I suppose.

Batatinha said:

This seems interesting, and I'm subscribed. By the way, without wanting to go off-topic, is this something new for the games industry, or are there other dev-led podcasts out there that I have missed?

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There's some studios who do podcast, but I'd need to get more into the nitty gritty to give a definitive answer. I will say an English podcast from within a Japanese studio, and one as note-worthy as Capcom, will probably have a lot of interesting material to work through at the very least.