Designed to celebrate Black heritage and Southern culture, the game has also become a lightning rod for online harassment ...

The emotional weight of South of Midnight had me hooked from the start, in part due to its masterful use of music as a storytelling tool. Much like how the Dark Souls series uses epic, bombastic boss ...

In an early chapter of South of Midnight, our protagonist Hazel is coming to grips with her newfound powers - it’s an important tone-setter, because it’s representative of what developer Compulsion ...

If all goes according to plan, Xbox has a big 2025 ahead of it. Obsidian will kick things off with Avowed next week, Doom: The Dark Ages is bound to be a hit, and Ninja Gaiden 4 will give a classic ...

It’s not often games will tug at your heartstrings and pull tears out of you, but it seems South of Midnight is banking on the emotion through its storytelling to keep you engaged. Of the many games ...

Thanks to the folks at Compulsion Games and Xbox, I got to play an early access demo of South Of Midnight on Xbox Series X ...

“South of Midnight” is an upcoming video game from Xbox that explores an alternate reality, magical version of the American Deep South through the epic journey of a Black teenage girl named Hazel. Set ...

South of Midnight also has something many games lack: an adorable, weird little guy companion who I wish could accompany me in real life. In South of Midnight, that lil’ guy is Crouton, a magical ...

As I sat down to play the 90-minute South of Midnight preview, I had one major question: Why does the framerate look like that? The trailers display a purposefully choppy animation style that’s meant ...

Back in February, I got to experience a sample size of Compulsion Games’ South of Midnight, walking away from the preview optimistic that Xbox Game Studios might have an emotional banger. After ...

Xbox Game Pass is one of the best things going in gaming right now. Not just in deals, as $20 a month grants you access to decades worth of the industry’s biggest and most interesting hits, but ...

Jay (He/They) is a fiction writer and high school teacher. He has a Bachelor's degree majoring in English and a Master's in Creative Writing. When he's not writing, he's either gaming (on the Destiny ...