News anchor simulator

Broadcast schedules shape your life outside work. If you host the sunrise show, you wake up in the middle of the night. If you anchor the evening news, you get home near midnight.

Your friends, partner, and family have their own weekday and weekend routines on the map. They text you on their own to invite you to birthday drinks, karaoke, or house parties. You can plan an outing to a real café or park on your day off.

You start at any age by writing it in your character description. You can begin as a young multimedia journalist or a veteran evening host. There are no skill bars, salary numbers, or promotion ladders.

Instead, you play your career as a story day by day. You set life goals and add tasks to your daily to-do list, like writing script copy or checking a lede. Your character ages through life stages, and each day ends with a recap of your moments.

Elena, 28, starts as a morning anchor in New York City. She sets a daily to-do list to review the broadcast rundown and meet her producer before the show. Using place search, she walks to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown.

Ten seconds into her first broadcast, she plays out a story where the teleprompter freezes on air. She improvises the news from memory and talks with her co-host in her own words. That evening, her producer texts her in a group thread to praise her calm work.

Name a city in your prompt, and the game puts you on its real streets. In New York City, you can work near CBS Broadcast Center in Hell's Kitchen or Fox on Avenue of the Americas. In London, anchors gather at the BBC's Broadcasting House in Portland Place or ITN on Gray's Inn Road.

Atlanta is a major hub for 24-hour cable news around the Techwood campus in Midtown. In Tokyo, station announcers work at NHK in Shibuya or Fuji TV on the island of Odaiba. You can also report near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., or the CBC Broadcast Centre on Front Street in Toronto.