South of Midnight Snags a Release Date at Xbox Developer Direct

Microsoft
is
looking
to
have
a
pretty
strong
year
in
terms
of
videogame
releases.
The
Xbox
Developer
Direct
revealed
that
Doom:
The
Dark
Ages
is

coming
in
just
a
few
short
months
on
May
15,
but
before
that
there’s
going
to
be
another
Microsoft
title
landing.

South
of
Midnight
from
Compulsion
Games
will
release
on
April
8
for

Xbox
and

PC,
and
will
be
available
on
Game
Pass
on
day
1.
As
is
becoming
the
norm,
you
can
also
play
five
days
earlier
if
you
pay
extra
for
the
Premium
Edition.
In
other
words,
the
game
releases
on
April
3,
then
gets
a
delayed
release
on
April
8
for
the
people
who
didn’t
hand
over
even
more
cash.

So
far,
no
PlayStation
release
has
mentioned,
but
considering
how
things
have
been
going
it’ll
probably
make
its
way
to
Sony’s
machine
at
somepoint.

The
new
story
trailer
and

official
blog
post
have
provided
some
extra
details
about
the
game.

“In
our
story
trailer,
protagonist
Hazel
and
her
mother
are
preparing
for
the
impending
hurricane.
The
storm
proves
massive,
causing
catastrophic
flooding-and
causing
their
own
home
to
be
swept
down
river
with
her
mother
in
it.
Its
aftermath
shows
the
fictional
town
of
Prospero,
located
in
the
southern
United
States,
eerily
calm
while
irrevocably
changed
from
the
hurricane’s
destruction.
Here,
Hazel
undertakes
a
journey
in
search
of
her
mother,
while
finding
out
more
about
herself
and
her
family’s
lineage
in
the
process.”

“Hazel
begins
to
see
fantastical
phenomena
all
over
Prospero,
including
meeting
Catfish,
an
enormous
–
and
talking
–
creature
in
his
own
right,
stuck
in
a
tree
following
the
hurricane’s
destruction.
Catfish
tells
Hazel
she
is
a
Weaver,
someone
who
possesses
magical
powers
and
can
see
how
our
threads
connect
to
form
the
woven
tapestry
of
our
fates.”

South
of
Midnight
caught
my
attention
when
it
was
revealed
in
June
2023
and
this
new
trailer
has
solidified
that
interest.
The
southern
music,
the
stop-motion
graphics
and
the
creature
designs
are
all
amazing!