Brenda and John Romero's Prohibition-era mobster strategy game Empire of Sin will receive its first paid expansion, Make It Count, next Thursday, 18th November, and it'll be joined by the free Precinct update for all players on the same day.
Make It Count adds new boss Maxim Zelnick, known as the Mob's Fixer, to the existing 14-strong roster, alongside a range of other gameplay additions. Loan Sharks are in as a new racket type, for instance, providing a potentially lucrative new passive source of income - and potential new event-based complications if customers can't afford afford to repay loans.
In order to open a Loan Shark racket, crews must have the new Fixer gangster type in their ranks. These units specialise in "making problems disappear", which Romero Games previously explained meant they could mediate conflicts between gangsters and smooth over fractious relationships. Fixers can also bribe their way out of combat situations but have access to the new Caltrops combat ability when fisticuffs are unavoidable.