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Xbox Officially Loses Compulsion Games

After developing the award-winning narrative RPG South of Midnight, Microsoft announced its plans to lay off several smaller studios and go forward with layoffs for thousands of employees immediately, or in the next year. Although Compulsion Games was originally going to be dropped by Microsoft, the developers have lef...

After developing the award-winning narrative RPG South of Midnight, Microsoft announced its plans to lay off several smaller studios and go forward with layoffs for thousands of employees immediately, or in the next year. Although Compulsion Games was originally going to be dropped by Microsoft, the developers have left on their own terms to start a new studio, as reported in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat, which was spotted by Reddit user gorotheninja.

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