{"id":137783,"date":"2026-07-15T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-203801"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:35:00","slug":"south-of-midnight-dev-seeking-new-collabs-following-xbox-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/15\/south-of-midnight-dev-seeking-new-collabs-following-xbox-split\/","title":{"rendered":"South Of Midnight Dev Seeking New Collabs Following Xbox Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd045c619ae43\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd045c619ae43\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s now an independent developer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/south-of-midnight\">South of Midnight<\/a> developer Compulsion Games was one of the teams let go during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/07\/xbox-confirms-3000plus-redundancies-with-four-studios-let-go\">Xbox&#8217;s recent layoffs<\/a>, and now, just a week later, it&#8217;s put out the call for collaborations with other studios.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/we-are-expanding-our-opportunities-to-collaborate-share-7482443558747074560-9YCx\/\">official LinkedIn page<\/a>, the Montreal-based developer announced it&#8217;s expanding its &#8220;opportunities to collaborate with studios from across the entertainment industry&#8221; as it returns to its roots as an independent development team. Here&#8217;s the message in full:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/07\/south-of-midnight-dev-seeking-new-collabs-following-xbox-split\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now an independent developer. South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games was one of the teams let go during Xbox&#8217;s recent layoffs, and now, just a week later, it&#8217;s put out the call for collaborations with other studios. In a message on its official LinkedIn page, the Montreal-based developer announced it&#8217;s expanding its &#8220;opportunities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}