RE:NEWS
Est. 2010
312 episodes of long-form interviews, lore dissections, and leak analysis with the people who actually shipped the games — former Capcom localization veterans, QA leads, and the fan creators who've read every file twice.
Four episodes to start with — the most-cited of 2024, the deepest lore pull of the season, and two fan favorites still riding the charts.
We cross-reference two separate asset dumps and a former Osaka staffer to walk back how a 2021 prototype tried to bridge two universes before Capcom shelved it. Includes the actual build sheet.
The first Western breakdown of the verified asset dump that confirmed the remaster pipeline in August.
Guest: Two QA leads from the Osaka studio, on backgroundMarisol Tran walks Marcus through every Project W log, every discarded child-subject file, every name the Remake continuity quietly retconned.
Guest: Marisol Tran — Lore Vault LeadA recovered design document from the original RE4 era surfaces three Ada Wong missions that never shipped. With the people who wrote them.
Guest: Yoshiko Mizuno — Former Osaka narrative designA scrolling band of the catalog's cover thumbnails. Hover any tile to surface episode title, runtime, and date.
We don't do the 'Top 10 Scariest Tyrant Sounds' clip-farms. Every episode of Raccoon City Files is sourced — a recovered build sheet, a former staffer on background, a verified asset dump. If we can't trace it, we don't air it. Seven years in, the archive is the proof.
Raccoon City Files is a sourced, credited production — not a fan chat. Two rotating formats, a standing roster of former Capcom veterans, and an open door for serious pitches.
Long-form interviews and lore dissections, 45–80 minutes. Single guest, sourced show notes, full transcript posted within 48 hours. Ep. 1–312 run on this slot without a missed week.
A shorter 20–30 minute cut where the team walks through the latest verified asset dumps, shadow drops, and Famitsu-corroborated intel. Episode 245 onward.
Marisol Tran and a rotating editor walk a single wiki entry end-to-end — every Project W file, every discarded character, every retconned Remake continuity thread.
The roster skews heavily toward the people who actually shipped the games — seven former Capcom localization and QA veterans on the team — plus the journalists and lore creators with a citation trail behind them.
Pitches are read weekly. Send a one-paragraph topic, the source we'd discuss (build sheet, leak, file, person), and your verification — bylines, employer, archive links. We reply within 14 days.
Audio listeners are the warmest audience segment on the site — but only a fraction have flipped on alerts. Join the Survivor Network for the leak thread, the push notifications, and the members-only Discord.
