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Direct from Capcom's HQ in Osaka, Japan, Top Secret brings you the latest information on Bionic Commando, exclusive interviews with the people behind the biggest titles in Capcom, and many more great guests from every side of the games industry. Updated every second Tuesday.
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All good things must come to an end, and so too must Top Secret: The Bionic Commando Podcast. With Bionic Commando now on shop shelves, the podcast's mission is complete - so join us, and 3 very special guests, for this final look back over the development of Bionic Commando, and take a look back over the history of the podcast in this farewell episode.
There will be bugs in this episode of Top Secret featuring the man
with one of the most important jobs in Capcom - Shutaro Kobayashi, the
head of Capcom's elite division of QA testers, the men and women who
make sure every game works properly before it gets to your machine! We
talk the life and responsibilities of working in QA, and follow-up with
a triple dose of Bionic Commando news.
We often talk about bringing Japanese games to the West on the podcast
- this week we're talking about the opposite with Capcom veteran
Shinsaku Ohara, the man responsible for bringing hit Western series
like Grand Theft Auto and God of War to Japan. What does it take to
make these most Western of games succeed in Japan? And which upcoming
massive Capcom title is Ohara-san producing now? All the answers are in
this week's Top Secret!
The Producer of the red-hot Resident Evil 5, Jun Takeuchi, bursts into
the studio wielding a chainsaw - by which we mean a free signed RE5
soundtrack which we're giving away! Takeuchi-san answers your questions
and talks a little about his other project, Lost Planet 2, in this
compact but action-filled podcast!
Travellin' Ben Judd is on the road in California, where he meets with
the guys from Backbone Entertainment, makers of SSFII HD Remix and
other fine Capcom digital titles. Back in the Osaka studio, the team
discuss a topic suggested by one of our community members - what are
"hardcore" and "casual" games?
Capcom's head of R&D, the man behind Mega Man, Onimusha and Dead
Rising, returns to the podcast to talk about the recently-announced
Dead Rising 2, and we barricade him in a room full of zombies until he
gives us the exclusive information we want to hear! Inafune-san also
gives his thoughts on gaming in the current economy and lists Capcom's
future plans for world domination. Meanwhile on the Lost Levels, we're
talking RPGs. Get to the forums and share your thoughts!
Street Fighter IV Producer Yoshinori Ono
and Assistant Producer David Crislip join us to talk
about the impending return of the world warriors, in advance of SFIV's impending
console release! We put the questions you want to ask directly to the
producers in a schizophrenic podcast that includes high-level
discussion of the state of the Japanese gaming industry, as well as the
answer to the eternal question of which SF lady has the better thighs.
All this and two bits of SF trivia you never knew, as four users win
SFIV caps signed by Ono-san!
Minoru Nakai, the Producer/Director of Dead Rising: Chop Till You
Drop, shuffles into this zombie-themed Top Secret looking for
braaaaaains. Or questions - fan questions which you've sent in, and he
answers! Also on this bumper episode: Gaming Jesus Mark MacDonald joins
us from Tokyo, the long list of rejected names for the original Dead
Rising, and what the Top Secret team got up to over the holidays.
Ring in the New Year... by reliving the last! That's right, it's a
Top Secret Clip Show, with all the highlights, and lowlights, from the
last year and more of the podcast. Enjoy the best of the Swingers Club,
the Lost Levels we had to find one more time, and our goriest Exploding
Heads - we'll be back with our regularly scheduled programming in two
weeks.
This Top Secret picks up the outtakes and bloopers from the cutting
room floor and crams them into a festival special. Listen to the two
"lost podcasts", laugh at our incompetent intros and check out the
outtakes we never intended for you to hear in the last podcast of 2008.
Happy holidays everyone!
New challengers approach in the form of Seth Killian, Capcom's
Community Manager, and Rey Jimenez, producer of Super Street Fighter 2
Turbo HD Remix, who join the Top Secret team to discuss the latest
child in the Street Fighter family. Find out what's been changed,
what's stayed the same, what game it might have been, and more in this
bumper fighting game-related podcast!
Creator of the Bionic Jam guitar remix and all-round rock legend Chris
Kline, aka Vertexguy, joins the podcast to discuss videogame
rock'n'roll and his work on games with Idol Minds. Elsewhere, another
Lost Level unearths discussion on women and the games they love - and
at some point there's actually some discussion about Bionic Commando!
The Top Secret team share their collective years of wisdom and offer
some advice to listeners looking to work in the land of the rising sun.
Elsewhere there's a belated Halloween-related Lost Levels. and Ben Judd
reports on videogame rating systems.
Top Secret returns with its 25th episode, and to celebrate we've
brought Producer Ben Judd back from the frozen tundras of Sweden to
discuss BC's rapidly approaching release date, the rapidly fading
memories of Tokyo Game Show, and his rapidly deteriorating health.
Elsewhere, the Top Secret team tackle another Lost Level and discuss
the crazy things they've done to get games.
Ben continues in Sweden with the Rearmed team figuring out what went
magnificently right and what crashed and burned in Rearmed, while in
Japan, the Top Secret team are running their mouths about another
gaming theme.
Direct from Sweden, Ben talks to Simon Viklund, the BCR Director, as
well as the Lead Programmer and Art Director, to find out how Rearmed
was made, what went right - and what could have been done better.
Meanwhile back in the studio, the crew introduce a new section to the
podcast. Tell us what you think!
The Top Secret team says a temporary goodbye to one member, welcomes
a new member, christens another "Iceboy" and talks about the issue of
controls in games and gives an update on next-gen Bionic Commando.
Also: in case you haven't bought a copy of Rearmed on 360 yet, we're
giving copies away! Listen in to find out how.
Jon and Miguel take the reins of the podcast to turn the tables on on
the usual hosts and put them in the hot seat! Story is the name of the
game in this podcast as we talk about our favorite game stories, the
development of the story in the BC games, and how comics tie it all
together.
CheapyD from Cheap Ass Gamer joins the podcast to discuss his love of
bargains, being a podcast legend and the madness that is being a
Westerner living in Japan. Where in the world can you get the best
videogame bargains? CheapyD joins us from Tokyo to find out, on the 20th episode of Top Secret!
Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel, Naruto's Orochimaru, X-Men's Wolverine -
voice actor Steve Blum has played them all, and now he's adding
Capcom's legendary hero Super Joe to the list! Steve joins us from
California for this podcast to discuss what it's like to play pop
culture's coolest characters, and what it was like becoming a
videogames legend.
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