Chloe Price (left) meets Rachel Amber in Life is Strange: Before the Storm, episode 1.
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Life Is Strange prequel lets you decide how close teens should be

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Life Is Strange sold more than 3 million copies because it had such appealing portraits of trouble teens. And developer Deck Nine is taking the teen angst narrative and running with it in the upcoming prequel Life Is Strange: Before the Storm.

The first episode of the game debuts on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC on August 31. And I got yet another peek at the episode and the relationships that are unfolding within it. I also interviewed lead writer Zak Garriss at Deck Nine.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.