Freeing The Studios

It's nice when studios get a chance to spin out independent rather than be shut down entirely With larger companies doing evil shit on a regular basis and the workers getting inevitably fucked by that, it's nice when there are stories that take a somewhat different route! Coming off a report from Gamesbeat, Compulsion games is officially splitting off from Microsoft and regaining control over their IP. This means a lot of things but most notably, that the 2025 southern gothic third-person adventure South of Midnight will be free of the BDS boycott and I'm really interested to finally give it a fair spin! I was given a pre-release code leading up to the April 8th 2025 launch and when the BDS boycott of Microsoft's involvement in Palestinian genocide was formally announced on April 3rd, I stopped playing it. What I'd experienced so far was great1 and I knew if I continued, it would make me wanna talk (and write) about it and that would directly be at odds with supporting the movement -…