Compulsion Games is making South of Midnight.
Compulsion Games is making South of Midnight.
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South of Midnight gets an extended gameplay reveal at Xbox Showcase

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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From the creators of Contrast and We Happy Few, South of Midnight is going to be a unique and lively third-person action-adventure game set in the American Deep South.

The game from Compulsion Games is coming to Xbox Series X/S (with Xbox Game Pass), Windows PC (with PC Game Pass), and Steam. The game got an extended gameplay preview at the Xbox Showcase today, but it isn’t launching until 2025.

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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.