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Xbox's separation from Compulsion Games – 1 of 4 studios it spun retired independently during the caller Xbox "reset" amidst thousands of layoffs – appears to beryllium complete, arsenic the developer itself is present listed arsenic the steadfast of 2025's award-winning South of Midnight connected Steam alternatively of Xbox Game Studios. The alteration was archetypal pointed retired by indie developer Michael Klamerus connected Bluesky. (Hat extremity to IGN Discord subordinate Tommy for flagging it to us.)
Interestingly, Xbox Game Studios is inactive listed arsenic the steadfast of Double Fine's Psychonauts 2 connected Steam contempt the San Francisco crippled developer besides becoming autarkic aft Xbox's caller sweeping changes. The aforesaid is besides presently existent for Undead Labs' State of Decay 3 and Ninja Theory's Senua, though some of those studios were acquired by different publishers who person yet to beryllium revealed.
It's been a unsmooth twelvemonth for some Xbox employees and Xbox fans – including astir precocious tepid aboriginal income numbers for Halo: Campaign Evolved – but determination is astatine slightest immoderate chill worldly to beryllium optimistic astir successful the coming months, from Gears of War: E-Day's merchandise successful October (check retired our multiplayer hands-on impressions – and the sick special-edition controllers) to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 giving america a interruption from Black Ops, the 10-out-of-10 Forza Horizon 6 pulling into PlayStation's driveway sometime earlier the extremity of the year, and Fable making its long-awaited instrumentality successful February.
Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, and a co-host of Next-Gen Console Watch. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.
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