What Life Is Strange Developer Don't Nod Is Now Saying About Lost Records: Bloom & Rage 📼👀 | Ep 98

Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast podcast has returned and Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt sit down to talk all things Don't Nod Entertainment, Deck Nine, Square Enix's Life Is Strange series and Don’t Nod Montreal’s Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.

PSA: both StrangeCast and The Lost Records Journal will be dropping this week. We recorded both podcasts back-to-back on the weekend.

Timestamps:

00:00 -- Introduction

00:14 -- Pre-podcast natter between Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt

03:19 -- The schedule for StrangeCast and The Lost Records Journal this week

03:59 -- French developer and publisher Don’t Nod reported its 2024 full-year results

09:12 -- PSA: transparency from Adnan about Don’t Nod

10:01 -- Adnan and Adam discuss Don’t Nod’s earnings, including what the Life Is Strange developer said about Don’t Nod Montreal’s Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

36:06 -- Tessa Rose Jackson, who was the score composer and songwriter for Deck Nine’s Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, won the ‘Best Music in Game’ award at the Buma Music in Motion

39:36 -- Adnan and Adam chat about Tessa Rose Jackson’s award win for Life Is Strange: Double Exposure

46:27 -- Deck Nine’s Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is nominated for ‘Game of the Year’ at the Gayming Awards 2025

47:44 -- Adnan and Adam talk about Life Is Strange: Double Exposure’s latest award nomination

53:45 -- PowerWash Simulator now has a Life Is Strange Easter egg in it

57:16 -- Miscellaneous news: Daniel Diaz’s birthday (including reaction from Life Is Strange 2 writer Jean-Luc Cano) and Life Is Strange 1 & 2 artist Edouard Caplain doing a workshop in Vancouver, Canada

58:53 -- Comment from the listener! (Thanks, @wickdaline8668! 😉)

01:07:32 -- Spread The Arts

01:12:47 -- Outro

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