Capcom's Winning Streak Continues

Capcom is on a run that other publishers can only envy, and the panel on this week's Game Scoop! spent real time trying to figure out how the company does it. The conversation started with a listener email that asked a disarmingly simple question: what is Capcom's secret? The answers that followed — the RE engine, disciplined scoping, a culture that prioritizes a satisfying core gameplay loop over chasing trends — added up to a portrait of a publisher that has figured out something many others have not. But the episode covered much more than Capcom's winning streak. Sony's latest State of Play landed with a thud, the Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay reveal dominated the news cycle, and the panel reviewed a handful of new and upcoming games, from Onimusha: Way of the Sword to the Blood of the Don Walker, while also finding time for a meandering round of Video Game 20 Questions.

Sony's State of Play Fails to Land a Punch

The panel was broadly unimpressed with Sony's State of Play, which aired adjacent to Gamescom but felt like an afterthought rather than a headline event. "Not one of the better ones," Damon said flatly. The problem was partly timing: the show featured more Final Fantasy VII Rebirth footage, which the panel had already seen multiple times over the summer. "We've seen it three times over this summer," Pierre noted. "It just didn't have that impact."