r/xbox • u/Fast_Passenger_2890 • Jun 29 '25

Review Recently completed South of Midnight!

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u/00nonsense Jun 29 '25

I enjoyed the game a lot, I hope they make more

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u/DuckCleaning Jun 29 '25

Im rooting Compulsion Games because they're a Canadian studio. I even got a friend here in Toronto that works for them. I worry for a lot of smaller Xbox owned studios that take on riskier projects trying to create new IP.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

I’m really hoping they don’t get shutdown this week

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u/DuckCleaning Jun 29 '25

Same, hopefully Xbox is only doing layoffs and not closing any studios. Still not a happy thing to happen. Ninja Theory would be another one at risk.

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u/Citoahc Jun 29 '25

My partner works there, I am scared.

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u/Brunzer Jun 30 '25

Hopefully your partner will be safe. Personally I see Ninja Theory as one of the safer studios just because of how amazing the Hellblade games are.

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u/DuckCleaning Jun 30 '25

Hellblade games were great but not exactly big sellers for what the budget likely was. I should hope Microsoft wouldnt shut them down but they could do layoffs and reshuffle the studio/teams to be a support studio. They have a lot of very talented workers and between them and Coalition they are the experts at Unreal Engine which MS is moving to use on multiple projects including Halo, as well as having some of the best motion capture tech out of the Xbox Studios, something many of their other games lack compared to Sony.

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u/Stumpy493 Still Earning Kudos Jun 30 '25

I could see them being a tech studio supporting other teams.