Player 1 vs The World’s StrangeCast podcast is here with ‘Side’ A of an all-new episode. The Lost Records Journal co-hosts Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt link up for a major discussion around the bombshell news from Life Is Strange franchise publisher Square Enix.
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Timestamps:
00:00 -- Introduction for Side A of StrangeCast
00:17 -- The pre-podcast chat between Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt
01:37 -- PSA: the podcast schedule for this week; ‘Side A’ of The Lost Records Journal podcast episode with Don’t Nod Montreal art director Sam Bradley should arrive this weekend
02:21 -- Life Is Strange: Double Exposure publisher Square Enix has announced major layoffs impacting the United States and UK divisions of the Japanese company
21:45 -- Why Square Enix has implemented a huge change that is now impacting individuals in the UK- and USA-based divisions at the Life Is Strange: True Colors publisher
40:05 -- Just some of the people at Square Enix who have worked on the Life Is Strange brand and who are now being affected by the potential layoff news, including Rhianne Gorman-Murphy, Izzy Jagan, Lucy Hale and more
50:23 -- Life Is Strange 2 publisher Square Enix has now released a statement to IGN about the recent layoffs
54:38 -- Square Enix reveals a massive push for 70 per cent of its QA work to be done by AI by the end of 2027
01:04:37 -- A preview for ‘Side B’ of Episode 120 of StrangeCast
01:05:12 -- A special shoutout to our wonderful StrangeCast producers and Patreon supporters: Kevin Lackner, Sunday, Clare McLoughlin, Jake, Carly, Goldberry, Kevin Kestis, Clarx, MrAnselmi, Spunger, The Lost Fan, Paul Groschke, Xavier and Ashlyn Nala (NEW)! 🫶🙇♂️
01:05:45 -- Outro for Side A of StrangeCast
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