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In the ideological battle for the soul of video games, South of Midnight (out April 8) is the stop-motion heart beating a strange, staccato rhythm at its center. The upcoming third-person action-adventure title from Montreal-based studio Compulsion Games (We Happy Few, Contrast) challenges Roger Ebert’s infamous “video games will never …

Compulsion Games, the studio behind indie titles Contrast (2013) and We Happy Few (2016), has been under the Microsoft umbrella since 2018, but their upcoming action-adventure game, South of Midnight, isn’t your average Xbox title. Aside from providing the budget, Xbox has been relatively hands-off as Compulsion works on its …