‘It satirises itself because it’s so freaking evil’: Den of Wolves isn’t a satire on late stage capitalism but it doesn’t help that its doomsday scenario is starting to unfold

You probably couldn’t get a better setting for a heist game than Den of Wolves’ Midway City. It’s an unregulated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where corporations have all the power. They can run illegal and immoral human experiments, invest funds to avoid taxation, and literally just kill their opposition if they…

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Schedule 1 just got its 5th patch, teaching its blackjack dealers to no longer let you look at their cards and promising a full-on ‘1st content update’ this weekend

The great thing about videogames is that they let me live out my lifelong dream of being a middle-class, British Pablo Escobar without getting shot to death on a rooftop. So it is that Schedule 1 is tearing up the Steam charts, as legions of thwarted Heisenbergs flock to the game to slang yayo and…

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How to change clothes in Schedule 1

While your main goal in Schedule 1 is to build a thriving…garden, you’ve got to keep up appearances. When you start the game, you can choose from a few basic clothes (or opt for nothing but your undies), so you’ll soon fancy a fresh fit. For something so simple, it’s not at all obvious how…

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Where to find the mayor’s house in Schedule 1

Finding most locations in Schedule 1 is a breeze. After all, you’re given a detailed map that names almost everything, and each building says exactly what it is in large Comic Sans text. It’s generally hard to go wrong. The one exception to this is the mayor’s house location, which is unnamed and rather unassuming….

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