Version 2.0: the big movie studio update. • Your movie studio is completely rebuilt: build out the lot and make films and series yourself, with scripts, casting, directors, budgets and every choice up to release • Design your own movie posters • Opening nights, a weekly box office chart and TV ratings • Paola Paparelli and the paparazzi, plus a hype meter for every client • Play on as long as you like: there is no final year anymore • Had the old studio? Sell it for exactly what you put in

Fashion has come to town. • New Style tab: every client has a fashion meter from 0 to 100 • Book a stylist and pick the look yourself on the red carpet — or hire a Personal Stylist • Clients who fall out of fashion tell you, and lose happiness until they get a new look • The Zoman writes with every new collection, and from 2000 old decades come back • The Temp Agency now tells you when part-time jobs end • Fixed: roles in the wrong gender, long fame decimals, two clients shown with one role

Sixteen languages, and a life of your own. • New: Русский, Türkçe, Polski, Bahasa Indonesia — the whole game in all sixteen • Your clients have children. Some inherit the talent — sign them first • A private life of your own: dating, marriage, a name to choose, and an end that can come • Astra nominations in week 18, and two ways to push the result • The roster shows at a glance who is in training • Fixed: a fax you could not read to the end, and a rare lock-up

New: اردو, Português (Brasil), हिन्दी, العربية — twelve languages in all, and the whole game in every one of them Urdu and Arabic read right to left, everywhere New staff role: the Trainer.

Eight languages. The whole game — not the menus, the whole game. English, Español, 简体中文, 日本語, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, 한국어 Every one of the 500 film titles, 218 press nicknames, 250 events and 418 appearance labels, written for each language rather than translated word for word Uncle Arnie's letters, all of them, in all eight The trade paper, the casting reports, the awards night and the year in review Pick your language on first launch, or change it any time in Settings

The Frankensteiner Clinic is open. • Say how handsome — or how ugly — you want a client, then choose your surgeon. The best never misses by more than 5 points. The cheapest is a gamble. • Design the face yourself: jaw, nose, eyes, hair, make-up, wardrobe. Styling costs nothing. • Surgery also takes years off the age the camera reads. • Also new: design your own character at the start, a hairdresser, and stage names. • Fixed: two clients in one film became two films.

Poaching is here. A rival's client can be signed away in the final year of their contract — if you can buy their agency out, and if you have spent years being someone worth calling. New: build a relationship with any actor in town, hire a Lobbyist to work on them for you, and put a scout on a rival's contract to learn when it runs out. Know someone well enough and they call you first. Fixed: a decision that could block the week for good, and saved games you can now delete.

You can save your agency now. Three slots, plus the autosave you already had. Also fixed: progress could be lost when leaving the app on iPhone, long messages couldn't be scrolled so their buttons were out of reach, and the same client could be cast in several roles in one of your own productions.

CHANGED — SCHEDULING - Being cast no longer takes an actor off the market. A shoot that starts in ten weeks now blocks those ten weeks, not the ten weeks in between: your client stays free to read for anything that doesn't clash. - Television is the big one. A series used to lock an actor for as long as the show ran. Now a season holds only the weeks it actually films — six to twelve, scaled to how big the part is, so a Series Regular carries the block and a Guest Star drops in for a few weeks. Between seasons your client is free to take a picture. - Next season's weeks are pencilled in while the show waits on renewal, so nothing gets double-booked. If it isn't renewed, those weeks are released. - A client can only carry one running series at a time. - Your roster now says which of these applies: on set, booked from a given week, or between seasons. - Two jobs can never overlap. That hasn't changed, and it's checked harder than before. FIXED - When a rival agency approached an unhappy client, the note explaining why the retention bonus was greyed out ran off the edge of the button and got cut off — so the option looked broken rather than unaffordable. The reason now sits on its own line, with the exact shortfall.

The desk work finally has someone to do it. NEW — CASTING MANAGER - A new hire under Perception. Every week they submit your clients for castings, following rules you set yourself on each actor's Casting tab: which role types, which project types, and how good the odds have to be before they'll put someone up. - You can also tell them to leave an unhappy client alone, and — if you employ a Script Analyst — to hold out for scripts above a quality you choose. - Their level matters twice over: how many clients they get through in a week, and how well they judge the odds. A green manager will misread a room now and then; a seasoned one rarely does. - Off by default for every actor, so nothing happens behind your back. ALSO NEW - Actors now show the flag of their nationality beside their name — on your roster, on their profile, and across the World's actor listings. - Your first client no longer starts from nothing: they arrive with a little experience already behind them, and a rounded set of acting skills rather than a raw one.