South of Midnight Director Says He Might Not Have Funded the Game at Xbox
In a MinnMax interview, David Sears, the creative director of South of Midnight, reflected on Xbox's level of backing for the game and said he would have been reluctant to approve a project of that scale if he were running the company. Asked whether he would have stopped its funding sooner, Sears replied, "Yeah, probably." He left developer Compulsion Games in 2025, shortly after the game launched
Advanced analysis (spheres, detailed sources, paid analyses)
Covered mainly by the Western sphere (100%); silent in Sino-Russian & BRICS, Arab-Muslim world, Global South.
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- Confirmed by 1 outlets in 1 countries.
- Ignored by Sino-Russian & BRICS, Arab-Muslim world, Global South.
- Propagation: first reported by files.vgtimes.com (Slovenia), . No word-for-word republication detected.
Headline clash across the four spheres
- South of Midnight Director Says He Might Not Have Funded the Game at Xboxfiles.vgtimes.com · Slovenia
No outlet in this sphere covers the event: blind spot.
No outlet in this sphere covers the event: blind spot.
No outlet in this sphere covers the event: blind spot.
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Event sources
- South of Midnight Director Says He Might Not Have Funded the Game at Xboxfiles.vgtimes.comSISlovenia → SloveniaEnglish