Key points
- It was recently rumored that South of Midnight's release date would be announced at The Game Awards 2024, but a well-known Xbox insider has denied this possibility.
- A release date for South of Midnight may not be scheduled for the 2024 Game Awards, but the 2025 day one Xbox Game Pass title could still feature a new trailer at the next event.
- A potential Xbox Developer Direct in January 2025 could be the site of the South of Midnight release date announcement.
A credible insider denied a recent rumor claiming this South of midnight would receive an early 2025 release date at the upcoming Game Awards 2024. While that doesn't exactly rule out a screening for South of midnight at The Game Awards 2024, a precise release date for the 2025 day one Xbox Game Pass title may be reserved for a future event.
Xbox Game Pass enjoyed strong success in the second half of 2024 thanks to huge additions like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, STALKER 2: The Heart of Chernobyl, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024and the new release Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It looks like Xbox Game Pass will keep this momentum going into 2025 with notable titles in the first quarter of the year, like Declared, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Atomfall, Sniper Elite: Endurance, Eternal threads, etc. The Game Awards 2024 could further bolster this list, but one first-party Xbox title will reportedly not confirm its release plans at the next event.
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South of midnight is a single-player action-adventure game from the Xbox first-party team Compulsion Games. While South of midnight is confirmed to launch in 2025 as a day one Xbox Game Pass title, its release window has yet to be shortened. A recent rumor from well-known Game Pass insider eXtas1s claimed that Xbox would be announcing a March 2025 release date for South of midnight at The Game Awards 2024. However, this was later denied by reliable Microsoft insider Jez Corden on Twitter, who simply replied “No” to a tweet talking about eXtas1s South of midnight release date rumors.
South of Midnight release date announcement supposedly not scheduled for Game Awards 2024
It is important to distinguish that Corden does not seem to deny the possibility of the new South of midnight trailer at The Game Awards 2024 or even an early 2025 release window for the game. Corden's succinct tweet only seems to confirm it South of midnightThe release date of will not be revealed at The Game Awards 2024. Xbox fans can't wait South of midnight shouldn't lose hope, however, as it could be featured in a potential January 2025 Developer Direct. Xbox has held January Developer Directs in both 2024 and 2023 to preview upcoming first party games and day one releases of Game Pass for those years, so it's not too unreasonable to assume that the platform holder could repeat this pattern in 2025.
Therefore, if South of midnightwon't be announced at The Game Awards 2024, so the next most likely candidate could be an Xbox Developer Direct presentation in January 2025. It should also be interesting to see if South of midnight it will end up launching in March 2025, in which case the rumors about eXtas1 would be partially validated. A late 2025 release for South of midnight it might even be out of the question, as many publishers are reportedly worried about releasing their games at short notice GTA 6Fall 2025 launch window.
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