I guess it’s time to talk about the game’s animations. South of Midnight begins with a gorgeous, handcrafted stop-motion intro movie that brings Hazel and her storybook adventure to life ...

South of Midnight's beautifully rendered digital-handmade world might look like a stop-motion movie, but developer Compulsion Games tells us that the "the gameplay itself is actually at 60fps." ...

Creatures are the heart of South of Midnight, so I asked Compulsion how it crafted its magical world, and how it chose its ...

It's been a long time coming, but South of Midnight's release date has officially been set. January's Xbox Developer Direct confirmed the new game from Compulsion will be launching in April 2025 ...

South of Midnight, then, is outwardly perfect for ... comparable to the animation in the recent Spider-Verse movies. As I follow along behind the specter of Mahalia (the powerful Weaver guiding ...

In the ideological battle for the soul of video games, South of Midnight (out April 8) is the stop-motion heart beating a strange, staccato rhythm at its center. While not groundbreaking ...

South of Midnight feels distinctly Alice in Wonderland ... concerts to blogging about the intersection between horror movies and browser games. Having made the career jump from TV broadcast ...

The music inspires its creatures, and vice versa — like the Altamaha-ha, a legendary water beast that hails from stories told around the Altamaha River in Georgia. Rather than adopt its more ...

It was hard playing a preview of South of Midnight because, 20 minutes in, I just started bawling. The demo for the action-adventure platformer starts at the beginning of chapter three.

I had the opportunity to play through Chapter 3 of South of Midnight, getting a hang of the game’s characters, systems, and stories. While the moment-to-moment gameplay felt familiar ...