- Update: EA2026-09-12A - 12 September 2026
__ EA2026-09-07A/12A ________________________________________■ It is now possible to set the workday so that it doesn't end until 6 a.m. the next morning. This allows you, for example, to set workdays from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m.■ Your TV schedule now calculates combinations. For example, if you air movies with the same IP, the same genre, or the same lead actor one after another, you'll receive a viewer bonus.■ The TV tooltip now also displays the TV channel's level.■ Items in your inventory are now color-coded based on their rarity.■ A new item is available in the store.■ AI can now produce its own movies, TV series, and shows.■ New movies have been added.■ Added 6 new random events.■ Lists can now be sorted in ascending or descending order.■ For in-house produced series, the production costs are now also displayed in the movie tooltip. ■ Performance improves significantly if you have a lot…
- Update: EA2026-07-24A / 09-03A - 3 September 2026
__ EA2026-07-24A / 09-03A ____________________■ You can now produce sequels to movies and new seasons of TV series and shows in the film studio.■ An icon will now appear on the right side of the screen to indicate whether the current TV show is trending or unpopular.■ Film Studio: The subgenre is now factored into the film ratings.■ Film Studio: The actors genre is now included in the film ratings.■ Film Studio: If you select the “Cartoon” genre, some film crews will be disabled, and you can then select the animation studio.■ Film Tooltips: For cartoons, “Voice Actor” is now displayed instead of “Cast Member.”■ Game Options: You can now set the game so that you have unlimited space in the archive.■ Film Studio: If “Cartoon” is selected as the main genre, “Voice Actor” is now displayed in the cast list.■ New movies, series, and shows have been added.■ Balance: Production costs for shows…
- Update: EA2026-07-10A / 22A - 22 July 2026
__ EA2026-07-10A / 22A ______________________■ Three new genres added (cartoon, erotic and historical film)■ The programme overview tooltip now also displays the number of blocks and highlights the current time in colour.■ (Custom game) The feature where new TV stations are randomly created when a TV station goes out of business now works.■ The game's start menu now includes buttons to set a random name and logo for the TV channels.■ (Custom Game): You can now set the film studio’s production speed.■ (Custom Game): The daily licence fees are no longer linked to the difficulty level, but can be set by the user.■ When you hover the mouse pointer over the channel buttons on the TV, today's schedule is displayed. This feature can be disabled in “Custom Game.” Starting at the “Hard” difficulty level, you can no longer view the opponents' schedule.■ NPCs can now enter the shop and buy items t…
- Update: EA2026-06-19B & 07-08A - 8 July 2026
__ EA2026-07-08A ________________________________________■ Pirated copies now have a condition. The more often you send them, the worse their condition becomes.■ You can now set an infinite amount of money in “Custom Game.”■ The opening hours for the rooms are now displayed as tooltips in the elevator menu. ■ People now watch TV for longer periods of time on the weekend. As a result, viewership ratings are significantly higher late at night on the weekend.■ Added a new random event. (Solar Storm)■ The day is now displayed in the broadcast schedule.■ (Movie tooltip) The rarity descriptions are now easier to read.■ The hotkey is now displayed in the tooltips for game speed.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Shop items did not work on clients.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Animation speeds for walking animations were not transmitted correctly to clients.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The “Add All Items” button in the Waste…
- Update: EA2026-06-03A / 18A - 18 June 2026
__ EA2026-06-03A / 18A ___________________________■ You can now enter the store. Three items are already available for purchase.■ (Marketing) A viewer poll can now be launched to find out what the next trend will be.■ (Mod) The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have been added as film production countries.■ To be eligible for an award for your own films, shows and series, the programme must now have been broadcast at least once.■ (Broadcast schedule): You can now hide movies, TV series, and shows that are already in the schedule and rental films.■ You can now filter films and TV series in the programme schedule by “all” age ratings.■ (Film tooltip) You can now see the purchase price for live events, rental films, shows, pirated copies and production costs for in-house programmes.■ (Advertisement tooltip) The required audience share, expressed as a percentage, is now calculated using the cover…
- Update: EA2026-05-21A / 28A - 28 May 2026
__ EA2026-05-21A/ 28A _____________________________________■ The TV station’s special genre is now calculated only once at the start of each day. In addition, a message box appears when a new special genre is selected.■ (Random events): Pirated video tapes may now contain a different movie than the one you purchased.■ You can now hide pirated copies in the broadcast schedule.■ If a show is outdated, it now displays 10% actuality instead of 100%.■ Mod: If a screenshot of a movie cannot be loaded, a “No Signal” screenshot will appear on the TV.■ Bug: In the custom game, you could mistakenly set the broadcast time to 25:00.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) In multiplayer, not all players left the room after two hours or when the room was closed.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) When a player left a room, it generated an unnecessary amount of network traffic.■ Bug: If you chose a new destination while exiting the el…
- Update: EA2026-05-15 & 16A - 16 May 2026
__ EA2026-05-15 & 16A ________________________________________■ Your TV station now has a thematic focus. For example, if you often air science fiction content, your station will be classified as a ‘Science Fiction Channel.’ You then receive a 10% audience bonus when broadcasting science fiction movies or series.■ Penalties that are not currently active are now displayed transparently (right side of the screen).■ You can now view the country’s preferred genres and current bonuses in the transmission tower menu and the location tooltip.■ If you enabled automatic repeat for marketing campaigns, you will now receive a message about the costs on the left side of the screen.■ Added 4 new random events.■ Bug: If the elevator menu was open, you could no longer leave rooms with a right-click.■ Bug: For some random events, no message box would appear, and they were also not sent to clients in mu…
- Update: EA2026-05-12 & 13A - 13 May 2026
__ EA2026-05-12 & 13A ___________________________________■ You can now choose screenshots from all other genres in the Film Studio. Note: In older save games, the wrong screenshot may sometimes be displayed.■ (Mod) You can now add your own screenshots to the ‘USER’ folder for use in the Film Studio.■ The AI now replaces low-recency series much more quickly.■ Translation: (Spanish and French) Movie and series titles are now once again displayed in their original English.■ Bug: The detective and the man with the bouquet should no longer enter rooms that are under renovation.■ Bug: Sometimes, the AI was unable to buy new movies and series from the film market if the blue player’s archive was full.■ Bug: Fixed several errors in the film database.■ Bug: In the default game, reputation gain/loss was set to 0.0%.■ Bug: (Translation) Some text in the News Office and Film Studio was always shown…
- Update: EA2026-05-11A - 11 May 2026
__ EA2026-05-11A ________________________________________■ (Custom Game): Settings are now saved and automatically loaded when you start a new game.■ Added 4 more ad spots for the endgame that require live events.■ If teleshopping causes an audience penalty, the viewer count no longer drops to 0, but only to 500–1000.■ Bug: If a player waited in front of a closed door and then entered the room, the door animation would not play.■ Bug: If you paused and resumed the game at the start of the day using the Space key, the game speed would be set incorrectly.■ Bug: (Broadcast schedule) If you added movies or commercials to the schedule, you had to right-click twice to close the menu.■ Bug: The ‘No Teleshopping’ requirement for ad spots was not working.■ Bug: In the standard game, recency regeneration was set to slow instead of normal.
- Update: EA2026-05-07A - 7 May 2026
__ EA2026-05-07A ________________________________________■ (Film Studio) You can now choose a subgenre for movies and series.■ If another TV station airs a pirated copy of a film whose original you own, the original’s actuality is now reduced as well.■ Custom Game: When setting the number of transmission towers available at the start, small broadcasting stations are now unlocked first, and only then the large transmission towers.■ News Office: If your archive is full and you try to place a news item into a news slot, a message box will now appear.■ Mods: Movies and series can now be assigned a subgenre ("Subgenre": 0).Notice: In older save games, movies you already own are shown with the subgenre ‘Action'.■ Balance: Increased the chance of the detective appearing.■ Bug: (News Office) If there was no space left in the archive, you could not move news items from the archive into a news sl…
- Update: EA2026-05-05A - 5 May 2026
__ EA2026-05-05A ________________________________________■ Added ‘Very Hard’ as a new difficulty level.■ Each country now has 5 favorite genres, and those 5 genres are shown in the game start menu.■ Bug: Sometimes, the NPC would sell series that were still scheduled to air. As a result, they could end up getting very high ratings when those series were broadcast.■ Bug: Review texts for self-produced movies and series were sometimes shown outside the UI.
- Update: EA2026-05-04A - 4 May 2026
__ EA2026-05-04A ________________________________________■ Viewers reached by transmission towers now have different preferences.■ The messages overview on the left side of the screen has been made slightly smaller so it no longer covers the random event icons.”■ Bug: The elevator menu now closes automatically when you enter a room. This should prevent bugs such as teleporting characters or rooms being marked as occupied.■ Bug: Sometimes, the timers for marketing, satellites, and film shoots would get stuck.■ Bug: If the marketing office was under renovation, automatic marketing would not pause.■ Bug: (News Office) Right-clicking a slot would remove the news item.
- Update: EA2026-04-30A - 30 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-30A ________________________________________■ (Broadcast schedule) You can now hide movies, series, and shows that are not 100% actuality or have an age rating of 16 or 18.■ If one TV station goes bankrupt, your ratings now increase by 20%. If two TV stations go bankrupt, your ratings increase by 50%.■ When the detective enters the building, the piracy room is closed.■ (Custom Game): You can now choose how many transmission towers are already purchased when starting the game.■ (Custom Game): You can now disable the age restriction.■ (Database/Mods): The cast database now includes a tag for disabling actors, directors, and presenters.■ Bug: The bonus for cult movies was removed when the day changed.■ Bug: You could place news items into the news slots even when there was no space left in the archive.■ Bug: (Custom Game) Clicking ‘Default Settings’ set the reputation gain val…
- Update: EA2026-04-26A/24A - 26 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-26A ________________________________________■ “Right-clicking the elevator now opens the elevator menu.■ You can now right-click news items to automatically place them into a slot.■ (Office->Statistics) You can now see the broadcast statistics of rival TV stations.■ You can now adjust the reputation gain/loss value again in the in-game options, since this value was set to 0 in older save games.■ You can now disable the pause animation in the options.■ Balance: (Series) Rerun ratings increased.■ Bug: “If you repeated the last episode of a series, the episode numbering in the schedule was displayed incorrectly.■ Bug: If you reran the second-to-last episode of a series, its actuality was incorrectly reduced to 10%.■ Bug: The review menu for in-house productions always displayed an overall rating of just 1.5 stars.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) If renovations were disabled in the game op…
- Update: EA2026-04-23A - 23 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-23A ________________________________________■ An episode of a series can now be repeated.■ The audience bonus for news and live events now decreases every minute. The rate at which it declines depends on the film’s potential and actuality.■ The streaming license can no longer be purchased until the feature has been implemented in the game.■ Bug: The detective walked into the locked rooms of TV stations that were already bankrupt.
- Update: EA2026-04-22A - 22 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-22A ________________________________________■ The detective no longer arrives at the beginning of the day, but rather during the course of the day.■ (Custom game) You can now adjust the game speed.■ (Custom game) You can now set it so that there is no reputation gain.■ (Languages) Polish have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.■ Live events can now be sorted by "Required Level".■ Advertisements can now be sorted by "Prestige".■ Bug: Sometimes the characters would walk backwards when the game speed was set to maximum.■ Bug: The client was able to change the "Gamespeed (Multiplayer)" setting in the lobby.■ Bug: The game settings overview displayed an incorrect value for reputation gain.
- Update: EA2026-04-21A - 21 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-21A ________________________________________■ (Broadcast schedule) You can now lock all programs in tomorrow’s schedule to automatically carry them over to the following day.■ (Commercials) You now also lose prestige with advertising partners if you go too long without airing a commercial or let a contract expire unsuccessfully.■ (Custom game) The actual end broadcast time is now displayed.■ (Marketing) When automatic repetition is enabled for marketing, there is no longer a delay.■ Bug: If you deleted or added your own production to your inventory immediately after it aired, the broadcast schedule has been changed.■ Bug: If you have enabled automatic repetition for marketing, a new marketing campaign will start, during which the marketing office will be renovated.■ Bug: If the detective left a room, it was marked as "unoccupied" even if a player was still in the room.■ Bug…
- Update: EA2026-04-19A - 19 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-19A ________________________________________■ You can now earn prestige with advertising partners. Each level increases your compensation by 5%.■ (Waste Disposal) There is now a button to move all items from your inventory to waste disposal.■ (Languages) Traditional Chinese have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.■ Bug: The same premium movies should no longer keep appearing all the time.■ Bug: (News Market) News items were not correctly sorted by actuality.■ Bug: The genre filters did not display the ‘Music Show’ and ‘Talent Show’ options.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) If the host loaded a save game, the TV channel names were not shown in the player selection menu.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Sometimes, the player selection menu incorrectly showed that the selected player was already assigned.
- Update: EA2026-04-18A - 18 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-18A ________________________________________■ News items are now automatically moved to the archive when you add them to your news feed.■ You can now move the news directly from the archive into the news slots.■ Your character now waits in front of closed rooms and automatically enters them once they open.■ Your character now automatically leaves a room when it closes.■ Satellites now take different amounts of time to become active.■ Bug: Short-term ads had several days to be completed successfully.■ Bug: The news penalty for the NPC was calculated incorrectly, so they always got better ratings with news in the late-night slot than the player.■ Bug: You could buy news items twice if you had already added them to your news feed.■ Bug: Once you left the film studio by right-clicking, mouse inputs were no longer processed.■ Bug: If you had a very large amount of money, the ful…
- Update: EA2026-04-17A - 17 April 2026
__ EA2026-04-17A ________________________________________■ Marketing campaigns now take varying lengths of time to become active.■ After 2 hours, the player character automatically leaves the room.■ The AI should now behave more intelligently when dealing with news programs.■ Bug: Short-term advertising contracts only came up when the advertising agency was undergoing renovations.■ Bug: When you enter the name of your news program, you can still pause the game by pressing the space bar.■ Bug: If you entered text in the text fields, you could no longer press the space bar to pause the game.■ Bug: Once you opened the lift menu, you could no longer pause the game using the space bar.
