Many people claim that thetabloid press fabricates news. In the case of Tabloid Tycoon,they would be right. The objective of this tongue-in-cheek game is to create your own media empire,using all the tricks of the trade to gain the top spot in the competitive world of tabloid publishing.
The game works on a turn-based system of assigning reporters and photographers to chasing leads.Your strategy in this regard will determine the kind of publication you end up with.Assigning resources to a story increases its credibility but costs more than a ‘publish and be damned’ ethos.
The game is controlled from a virtual news room. From here staff can be assigned, finances reviewed, stories researched all in a day’s work for a budding media mogul. The wide variety of generated news stories range from the amusing to the ridiculous,but the turn-based game play quickly become a little repetitive.
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