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South of Midnight director calls Xbox funding 'unsustainable'

Original: "There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at l

Compulsion Games, the studio behind South of Midnight, has split from Xbox, and its director now says Microsoft's funding of the studio was 'unsustainable', at least in hindsight. Quoting 'there's always a night when Rome burns', he frames the departure as part of the wider wave of cuts and divestments under Microsoft. Gamers are debating what the studio's independence means for its future projects.

Why now: Microsoft's ongoing stream of studio closures and sell-offs has put every departure from Xbox under scrutiny.

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• "There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at least in hindsight Compulsion Games parted ways with former owners Xbox, having landed on the long list of things Microsoft were determined to ditch as part of… · gamewire@gamefan.net · 1

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