I like to think that I’m pretty upstanding when it comes to journalistic integrity, but sometimes, you just have to do what you need to do, as Sparrow Night’s new newspaper simulator game, News Tower, is teaching me. Managing a print newspaper in the current climate is no easy task, so when the Mafia came knocking on my door offering up some help in exchange for a couple of articles, I didn’t chase them away.
News Tower is a strategy and management game that lets you define your editorial line, whether that be prioritizing boxing matches, political scandals, or whatever the Mafia wants from you that week. After inheriting a run-down press house from your uncle, it’s your job to do up the derelict building, furnishing it with desks, printing presses, and maybe a legal team or two (just in case anyone catches on to your Mafia links).
