South of Midnight
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Microsoft debuts Compulsion’s South of Midnight

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Compulsion’s South of Midnight, a spooky game set in the bayou, got a sneak peek today.

Microsoft made the announcement during the Xbox Showcase today. There wasn’t much to the reveal, but the cinematic looked pretty interesting. It featured an old man playing a banjo on a dock. A young woman approached on the dock and asked if he saw a monster with big teeth, showing a crude drawing.

The monster starts coming out behind her as she shows the image to some animals and asks the same question. Then she turns around as the shadow of the monster rises behind her and she unveils some kind of magical spell. It looks like a scary action horror game with some humor.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.