Don't Nod
French video game developer
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| 2025 | Don't Nod will publish The Lonesome Guild for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S, developed by Tiny Bull Studios |
| 2025 | Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is planned for release on PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S, published by Don't Nod. |
| April 2025 | Released Koira through their third-party publishing side, developed by Studio Tolima. |
| February 2025 | Released the first part of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. |
| January 2025 | Around 100 employees participated in a strike against a redundancy plan by Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses du jeu vidéo. |
| February 2024 | Published Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden through Focus Entertainment. |
| October 2023 | Released the puzzle game Jusant. |
| June 2023 | Released visual novel Harmony: The Fall of Reverie and announced puzzle game Jusant. |
| June 2023 | Released the visual novel game Harmony: The Fall of Reverie. |
| September 2022 | Released first third-party published game, Gerda: A Flame in Winter. |
| May 31 2022 | Rebranded and changed company name from Dontnod to Don't Nod. |
| September 2021 | Made their remote work policy (Fully Remote Organization scheme) permanent for all employees. |
| January 2021 | Tencent acquired a minority stake in the company, gaining an option to appoint a board member. |
| December 2020 | Published their first self-owned IP, Twin Mirror, co-developed with Shibuya Productions. |
| August 2020 | Released Tell Me Why, an episodic adventure game developed with Xbox Game Studios, with episodes released between August and September. |
| May 2020 | Don't Nod announced a new subsidiary studio in Montreal, Canada, expanding their team to over 250 employees. |
| December 2019 | Completed episodic release of Life Is Strange 2. |
| September 2018 | Began episodic release of Life Is Strange 2. |
| June 2018 | Released The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, set within the Life Is Strange universe. |
| June 2018 | Released Vampyr in collaboration with Focus Home Interactive, an action role-playing game. |
| June 2018 | Dontnod acquired and absorbed Dontnod Eleven's operations. |
| May 23 2018 | First day of trading for Dontnod on Euronext PME, raising €20.1 million. |
| May 3 2018 | Subscription period for public listing opened. |
| May 3 2018 | Subscription period for public listing opened on Euronext PME. |
| May 3 2018 | Subscription period opened for Dontnod's public listing. |
| April 2018 | Dontnod registered with the French stock market regulator Autorité des marchés financiers to become a public company. |
| 2016 | Dontnod began early development of Life Is Strange 2 following the financial success of the first game. |
| July 2016 | Dontnod entered into a partnership with Hesaw, a Parisian game studio, which was renamed but remained an independent entity. |
| April 2016 | Studio leadership declared a strategic shift to focus exclusively on independent, narrative-driven original intellectual properties. |
| 2015 | Don't Nod released 'Life Is Strange' episodically, a game that significantly improved the studio's reputation and financial standing in the video game industry. |
| June 2014 | Dontnod announced a collaboration with Square Enix Europe to develop Life Is Strange, which would be released in 2015 across five installments. |
| January 28 2014 | Dontnod filed for redressement judiciaire ('judicial reorganisation'), a form of receivership in France, which was finalised in February 2018. |
| 2013 | Dontnod became the most subsidised studio, receiving €600,000 in aid from the French agency Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), including €200,000 for the new IP project codenamed 'What if?' (later known as Life Is Strange). |
| 2013 | Don't Nod completed development of 'Remember Me' video game, which experienced poor financial performance, leading the company to enter judicial reorganization. |
| June 2013 | Capcom Europe released Remember Me as an action-adventure game after reimagining the original concept. |
| 2011 | Sony Interactive Entertainment dropped Remember Me due to funding cuts, leading Dontnod to present the game at Gamescom to attract a new publishing deal. |
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