{
  "id": 2360830,
  "title": "“We’re going to take things slow\": South of Midnight devs now own the rights to all their games again, after quitting Xbox, and are working on a new game",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/were-going-to-take-things-slow-south-of-midnight-devs-now-own-the",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-21T10:25:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/were-going-to-take-things-slow-south-of-midnight-devs-now-own-the-rights-to-all-their-games-again-after-quitting-xbox-and-are-working-on-a-new-game"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "We Happy Few and South of Midnight developers Compulsion Games have announced that they are fully broken up with Microsoft and Xbox, after completing a management buyout. They now once again own the rights to all their own original intellectual properties. Amongst other things, this means that you can buy South of Midnight – summarised by Brendy (RPS in peace) as \"a beautiful folkloric tale\" and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}