Mafia Wars Carnaval Brazil

Mafia Wars is taking part in this years Brazilian Carnaval and you are invited to join in the festivities! Prepare for the launch of our newest destination, Brazil, by collecting Carnaval Masks through Gifting, Jobs, Fights and Robbing. When you collect enough, redeem them for cool Brazilian themed loot items. Look for rare Golden Masks that are the equivalent of 5 Carnaval Masks.  Get a leg up on the competition by saving enough Carnaval Masks to gain early access to Brazil where new Jobs, Properties, and Loot await.
To be a part of the Brazil Beta group, you must redeem your Carnaval Masks for at least one Air Brazil loot item.
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Miami Vice

 To celebrate the movie '', Mafia Wars will be unleashing four brand new themed items to the Marketplace! Already available is Sonny's Suit, an armor item with 42 attack and 81 defense. You'll have to keep a lookout for the other 3 items coming out soon. We'll be bringing you the vehicle item, Go Fast Boat (82 attack, 45 defense), along with the weapon item, Rico's Revenge (81 attack, 37 defense). Last but not least, another vehicle item, (51 attack, 82 defense).

Don't miss your chance to get your hands on these limited edition items as they become available - they won't be around forever! Click here to shop at the Marketplace and play Mafia Wars: http://zyn.ga/1rv

Meet the Mafia Wars Family

The '' fan gathering held in San Fransisco was a huge success.  As a long time fan of Mafia Wars, I was overwhelmed with excitement.  Just like the announcement promised, there were Mafia Wars players, Developers, games, prizes, photo opportunities, SWAG, inside scoops and much more!

Governor's Run

Get your friends to rig the election for you in the upcoming Governor's Run! If you want to rise to power quickly, you'll need the help of your mafia members. Send out special invites to your mafia and make sure 9 people cast their vote for you. When you get 9 to show their support, you'll receive the limited edition item, 2nd Amendment, as your reward. With 52 attack and 80 defense, this weapon is sure to come in handy if you're ever in a jam. Remember to return the favor and accept invitations from your mafia as well. Keep an eye out for the Governor's Run, and click here to play Mafia Wars: http://zyn.ga/1wp

Private Zoo

A new property is coming to New York - we'll soon be introducing the ! Here, you'll be able to produce new animals and unleash their power in your fights. Similar to the Chop Shop, Weapons Depot, and Armory, the will produce animals and will unlock a new animal each time you upgrade it one level.

Each day when you go to your zoo, you'll be able to collect "Animal Feed" that you'll use to build animals. You can collect your Animal Feed every 18 hours, and the amount of feed produced at your zoo will increase with its level. Not to mention, the more you upgrade your Zoo, the stronger the animals you’ll carry in fights, so there's lots of incentive to keep it growing. You'll need 5 different construction parts to set up your zoo - Terrarium, Animal Pen, Aquarium, Bird Cage, and Feeding Trough -  which you can get by sending requests and feeds to your mafia to help out or by directly purchasing.

The will have all this and much more! Be on the lookout for the release, coming soon. In the meantime, click here and head over to Mafia Wars to check on your other properties: http://zyn.ga/1xu

New Home Page Layout

The new Mafia Wars home page layout has arrived and will gradually roll out to all players! The home page is now organized into modules and the Player Updates section has been moved to the My Mafia page.

Hustle To WIN!

Good things come to those who hustle. Collect all the Dr. Dre items in Hustlin’ wit Dre to earn special Dre-themed mastery items to celebrate Dr. Dre's highly anticipated album, "Detox" coming out early next year. Collect all of Dr. Dre's gifts to win the Dr. Dre themed mastery items! Launching this weekend!

BUT WAIT

Zynga Headquarters

Before attending the Mafia Wars Meet the Family Event in San Fransisco, I was given a tour of .  This was really cool and something I've always been curious about.   is located in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Fransisco, California.  It's a beautiful building with lots of windows.  Here is a view from the back entrance.

Mafia Wars On Yahoo

Mafia Wars has gone Beta on Yahoo Pulse, the social network found on yahoo.com.  Yahoo Pulse has applications just like Facebook and the most exciting one is the game Mafia Wars.  Don't wait any longer, sign up today and start showing everybody you have what it takes to be one of the best Mafia Wars players on Yahoo. You will receive 4 Exclusive Limited Edition loot items for your inventory just for playing.  To learn more about Yahoo Pulse and how it works, click HERE.  Find answers to all your questions about , by visiting these links on The Zynga Forum Boards and Zynga Customer Support.  Please note that is separate from Mafia Wars on Facebook. To sign up and start playing now, go to this link http://zyn.ga/1fI.

Italy Region 6: CALABRIA

Italy Regions 6, 7, and 8 are LIVE!  





Hope you saved up your LIRA as the first job in Calabria is expensive.  I also hope you saved some Smart Phones, because Gate Loot is needed in Calabria...

Two FREE Reward Points

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Italy Region 7: Citta Del Vaticano

After completing the Bronze level of Calabria, you can move on to Italy Region 7: Citta Del Vattiacano



Don't forget to grab the two free Reward Points being offered as a promo for the debut of the new Italy Regions.





Citta Del Vaticano will require more Gate Loot - Cooked Books

Italy Region 8: THE ETERNAL CITY

You've finished Citta Del Vaticano to reach the final Italy Region: The Eternal City.  At least 6 different job loot items here, including an Animal with better Attack stats than anything you can get in the Italy Port or through Fight Club.

NEW Top 4 Fight Loot Items

With the high energy and stamina costs - and endless need for Gate Loot - for jobs in Calabria, Citta Del Vaticano, and The Eternal City, four recent Fight Loot items came as a pleasant surprise.  

Calabria Boss Fights

Here are the screenshots and stats of the Boss Fights from Italy Region 6: Calabria



BOSS: Don Vittorio Messino

Four Gold Treasure Chests Opened...

If you collect(ed) baseball cards, you've probably seen  websites where people open random packs and show you what cards they got.  In a sense, it feels like you have absolutely nothing better to look at on the Internet are opening the packs yourself.



In that spirit, realizing I had 4 Gold Treasure Chest keys, I popped the treasure chests tonight and thought I'd share the "AWESOME STUFF" I received.

Free Stamina Point - February 6

Anonymoussaid...

please keep updating till end of march, we have our exams and we want to see whats going on MW without going into it...

February 8, 2011 1:51 AM

2 FREE Reward Points Through Feb 15

Anonymoussaid...

Hi,

Do you have any idea how many Loyalty Points we need to collect in order to get to a higher tire?

Thanks for your excellent blog!
John

February 9, 2011 10:30 PM

February FREE Points Calendar

The blog is alive and well and will be back to full steam shortly - but in the meantime, don't miss Mafia Wars' February calendar of FREE POINTS from February 16th to 28th.

Atlantic City 4 - CAMDEN COUNTY

Mafia Wars recently released Chapter 4 of ATLANTIC CITY - the "mobile" Mafia Wars location (though you can play on your desktop or laptop).

The new location is CAMDEN COUNTY, which is a major geographical error.  While I took issue with the overbroad geographical labeling of Atlantic City 3: SOUTH JERSEY, at least Atlantic City is IN South Jersey.  But more on that later - let's check out the new location.

Five Gold Treasure Chests Opened...

A couple weeks ago, I posted the results as I opened four Gold Treasure Chests.

Having come across five more Golden Keys since then, I thought I'd take another run at finding something useful.

Judge for yourself...

Saturday's FREE Reward Point

Click here for FREE Reward Point

This one comes from Zynga - if you haven't already "LIKED" its Facebook page, click "Like" at the top of the page, and then click on the Free Reward Point picture (shown below)

ALL FIVE Private Zoo Upgrade Gift Links

The new Private Zoo property is all the rage this week. The difficulty in upgrading it is that your Free Gift window only has 2 of the 5 upgrade parts. Thus, you end up with 23 Bird Cages, 21 Feeding Troughs, but no Aquariums, Big Cages, or Terrariums - making it harder to get complete upgrade sets (one of each part).


And you'll need 71 Private Zoo upgrade SETS - 355 pieces - to fully upgrade your property to its current highest level. What to do?


The links below let you send your Mafia EACH of the five Private Zoo upgrade parts. And then your Mafia can send the same part back to you. This way, you're not limited by your own Free Gift window to sending - and receiving back - a certain part.


These links work like the popular Terracotta Tile/Stone Column links and Italian Hardwood/Marble Slab links - they will send you into Mafia Wars to a screen where you can send the chosen Private Zoo upgrade to whatever Mafia members you select:

Hustlin' Wit Dre

Mafia Wars has a new social event up tonight called . You're familiar with these events, where you collect three items and get rewards at three tiers, and eventually a grand prize, and can do the event three times.


If this doesn't sound familiar, you either have a life or are new to Mafia Wars. Think of the recent Cake Jailbreak and Serial Assassins events. This is the same deal. You've probably missed collecting bees and cupcakes, so luckily we have another social event before you go into withdrawal.


Other than an interesting Dr. Dre video previewing a new song, the setup is the same as the other social events. These have come up so frequently lately that I bet I can give readers all the information necessary JUST by posting pictures. So I'm going to try:

Updated Daily Chance Lotto Prizes

Mafia Wars has updated its Daily Chance prizes. In case you happen to have already finished New York (say, 18 months ago), you'll be pleased with the updated Loot/prizes. This week, mine included Italy Village Parts, Weapons Depot Parts... and the very elusive Armory Parts.

Mafia Wars Italy Collections

The four collections in Italy are noteworthy for their good bonuses, which can be seen on the Collections page itself and are discussed below. You can also see them with a microscope and this screenshot:

Rendezvous at the Pentagon UPDATE + More Loot

But more notable than the name change is the fact that you can get MULTIPLE Mastery Rewards from the Army, Navy, and Air Force challenges once you obtain the Grand Prize from the Rendezvous at the Pentagon challenge (Government Secrets)...

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

If you act now, once you obtain a second set of Gold Mastery items (all 3), you can get a SECOND grand prize - another Government Secrets, with its 103/132 stats!

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!

If you call within the next 15 minutes, we'll throw in a Mafia Wars Achievement for collecting 100 uniforms (collectively from the Army, Navy, and Air Force)

Vegas Jackpot Weekend

So, as many of you have pointed, our new Mafia Wars Las Vegas "Jackpot Weekend" is actually the same thing as our previous Las Vegas loot weekend!

You can collect 7 items between fighting and doing jobs (the same items as before):


Stage Show Tiger (animal; 28 attack, 50 defense)

Casino Guard (armor; 48 attack, 28 defense)

Suit of Suits (armor; 46 attack, 24 defense)

High Roller (vehicle; 46 attack, 23 defense)

Royal Flush (weapon; 48 attack, 25 defense)

Big Blind (weapon; 52 attack, 25 defense)

Viva Las Vegas (weapon; 27 attack, 50 defense)

and the reward for collecting the 7 items:

Jackpot (weapon; 30 attack, 54 defense)

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You can only get 10 of each item it seems, so if you hit the Las Vegas loot item cap before, you cannot collect new items.. foiled again!

In other news, this weekend for the third weekend in a row is a double fighting loot / double job mastery weekend. Players will earn twice as much loot in fights and they will earn twice as much mastery on jobs.

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In another news note, Mafia Wars South Africa has been extended by a day. Players now have 2 more days to finish up.

Lunchtime Poll: Should kids' social gaming behavior be chaperoned?

Media Chaperone, a Chicago-based web-monitoring company, has raised $1 million to help launch and fund Piggyback, its brand new Facebook app. VentureBeat reports that the new, free application is designed to allow parents to monitor their children's' behavior online with a heavy focus on social gaming and virtual goods purchases.

Through their own Facebook profiles, parents will know everything about their kids' progress in games like from achievements to level-ups to when they buy items and for how much. Sure, parents can reward them for good behavior with Facebook Credits, but we imagine they can punish them as well. While there have been horror stories of kids running amok on their parents' gaming devices and accounts, is this really the way to stop it? What happened to good old instillment of values? Is this the only insurance policy parents have left on their kids' Internet use?

Should kids' social gaming behavior be chaperoned?online survey

FarmVille English Countryside Sneak Peek: New buildings and crops

Zynga has released a snapshot of what looks to be its biggest FarmVille release to date, the English Countryside expansion. From what we can gather in this screen shot, there will be plenty of flowers to master including pink and white daisies along with two other flowers I can't name from looks alone. (What do you want from me? I'm no real gardener!) However, what we can guess is that there will be a slew of new buildings to construct, namely a new Chicken Coop and Stable. As a side note, is it just me or do those graphics look a little sharper than standard FarmVille fare? If Zynga is at the point of releasing screen shots, we'll find out for ourselves sooner rather than later.

What else do you think lies in store for us with the English Countryside? Are you prepared to build a second farm? Sound off in the comments. Add Comment. Bookmark this site!

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FrontierVille crops glitch not giving up Food or Coins, players report

Are your crops not giving up the goods when harvested in FrontierVille? Then just refresh the browser, according to a few folks on the FrontierVille forums like JaneTheFarmer. A disgruntled forum user named luvHI asked her fellow players, "Usually when I plant crops I get coins and food. When I planted corn for the chicken mission no coins no food anyone know anything about that?" A good amount of forum users responded, claiming that the cause of the issue is a glitch that has gone unfixed for some time.

However, luvHI mentions only planting crops and not getting coins or Food in return. This is 100 percent normal, which is why we're lead to believe that it was merely a typo based on several responses in the forum thread. According to JaneTheFarmer, all you need to do is refresh the game and harvest the crops once more, but the same issue happens to her two to three times a week.

Frankly, who has the time to do this on a regular basis when I'd most FrontierVille players are sneaking that time in on their lunch break or before bed. FrontierVille officials have yet to respond to the thread nor does this appear to be a known issue in the Bugs and Bug Reporting section. Regardless, we imagine the team will be on it shortly for A. It's been far too long and B. At least the community team is normally quick to respond.

Playable Angry Birds cake makes a kid's birthday seriously awesome

by Joe Osborne, Posted Feb 24th 2011 5:15PM Tweet
If you watch this video and aren't touched by the end of it, there's something wrong with the Dawww lobe in your brain. Mike, arguably the coolest British dad in the world, made his now 6-year-old son Ben a playable Angry Birds birthday cake. The video goes through the entire creation process sans the baking--kind of boring, you know? (Even the birds and pigs are iced!) The video's adorable factor goes through the roof when Ben is surprised with the most badass birthday cake in existence. He then goes on to give those pigs hell with pop's help. What, Dad, couldn't make iced cluster birds separate? What gives?

Zuma Blitz player scores 1.4 million points with no powers

Comments by Joe Osborne, Posted Feb 24th 2011 6:10PM Tweet
Sure, even 2 million points in Zuma Blitz is totally possible--when you have powers. YouTube user SLiangHsu posted a video today of his arduous and impressive achievement in PopCap's ball-blasting game. With no powers at all, he scored over 1.4 million points on this week's Crossroads board. How did he do it? Frankly, he shot the balls really fast. Well, extremely rapid and accurate gap shots helped too; not to mention hitting every Chrono Ball on the field. In fact, it appears as if the player intentionally wasted his Hot Frog shots just to show off. Cocky? Absolutely. Justified? You try to score a million points with just your wits (and your wrist).

FarmVille: Be a Princess without a crown with new avatar dress

It seems as though Zynga might have forgotten to release a FarmVille avatar clothing item in the Fairy Tale theme last Sunday, as a new dress for girl avatars has silently appeared in the game. This item is almost identical to the Princess costume released before, but where that costume came with not only a dress and shoes, but also a tiara, this "Princess Dress" is just that - the pink dress with a nice pair of shoes.

There is a slight color difference in the bodice of these two dresses, with the solitary dress being more of an orange-shade, and you'll pay a heck of a lot less if you go for the no-crown option, as this Princess Dress costs just 30,000 coins. For the record, the Princess costume costs 100,000 coins.

It's still interesting to see that only one avatar clothing item has been released strictly for male characters (that being the Knight costume), but we'll make sure to let you know if that changes in the future. In the meantime, you have two weeks to purchase this new solo dress, while the Princess costume will leave the game in ten days.

Let us know what you think of this cheaper Princess Dress in the comments. Will you save 70,000 coins, or is the addition of the tiara worth the extra money?

FarmVille Sneak Peek: Black Beauty Horse and Black Beauty Foal

If you liked the dark look of the Anti-Valentine's Day items in FarmVille, you'll also love the look of this new as-of-now unreleased horse. The new horse, we believe will be called the Black Beauty Horse, and it of course comes with a Foal to match.

With a name like "Black Beauty," Zynga has really lived up to that with the design of the animal, as you can see in the screenshot at right, and in the animation below. Rumor has it that new animals will be coming to this week's Mystery Game, but whether or not this will be included remains to be seen. The Black Beauty could also possibly be released as a general addition to the game's store, as we doubt it would fit in with the current limited edition Fairy Tale theme of items. As most players know, however, stranger things have happened.



Remember, unreleased items have no guarantee of officially launching in the game, and details about their pricing and availability are unknown as of this writing. We'll be sure to bring you all of the details about these horses should they officially launch in the game, so keep checking back.

What do you think of these two new horses in the comments. Would you pay Farm Cash to add the Black Beauty to your collection? Let us know in the comments.

FarmVille Sneak Peek: St. Patrick's Day Clover Rabbit and Clover Sheep

If you're looking forward to the next holiday in FarmVille, that being St. Patrick's Day, as much as this farmer, you'll want to know all about these two new St. Patrick's Day animals that we believe will be coming to the game as part of this year's celebration.

The two animals are the Clover Chicken and the Clover Sheep, with both being lovely shades of pale green, along with some clover accents in a darker green color. If green is your favorite color, you'll simply love these cute little fellas, let's put it that way.

As of right now, there's no known details as to how these animals will be released in the game, but with the Clover Rabbit being released as part of the Wishing Well feature, the likelihood that this pair will join it is rather high. Perhaps these items will be prizes in the (what we assume is) upcoming Pot of Gold feature? Or maybe they'll simply be available to purchase from the game's store for coins or Farm Cash.


Whatever the case, we'll make sure to let you know all of the details about these animals as soon as we have them, but for now, check out their animations above.

What do you think of these two St. Patrick's Day animals? Do you like holiday-themed animals, or would you appreciate more realism in FarmVille? Let us know in the comments.

FarmVille Sneak Peek: Knight Gnome, Gumdrop Cluster, and More

Today has been absolutely golden for unreleased items in FarmVille, as we've come across two more items that will apparently be released shortly in the Fairy Tale limited edition item theme, along with a little visual proof that Zynga is working on a 30 x 30 land expansion in the game.

The two Fairy Tale items are the Knight Gnome and Gumdrop Cluster. While there's no guarantee that either of these items will be released officially, after the launch of the Princess Gnome just a few days ago, his arrival is all but guaranteed. We'd guess that both of these items will be released as single purchase items in the store, but it is also possible that they make their way into a new Mystery Game (rumor has it, another Mystery Game containing the Pink Unicorn is in our future).

As for the 30 x 30 Land Expansion, we don't have many details just yet, but we have started to hear rumblings about an expansion in the works, since this would be the most logical advancement in the game, after the 28 x 28 land expansion that was released late last year. Zynga hasn't officially announced that they are working on the land expansion, but we can only hope that there is some truth to the rumor.

As usual, we'll make sure to give you all of the details about these new items when they officially launch in the game, so keep checking back.

What do you think of this new set of FarmVille unreleased items? Do you already need more room on your farm after upgrading to 28 x 28? Let us know in the comments.

FarmVille Leprechaun Cottage: Everything you need to know

For some time now, we've been bringing you FarmVille sneak peeks of the new St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun's Cottage / treehouse that was then just an unreleased set of images. Via tonight's FarmVille update, however, the Leprechaun's Cottage became a reality as the building is now available to build on your farm!

As we expected, this building will function in a manner comparable to that of the Haunted House or the Cupid's Castle, from the Halloween and Valentine's Day events, respectively. That is, the Cottage will start at one size, and can then be upgraded three more times, each time causing the Cottage to become larger and more elaborate, changing from a simple cottage sitting on the ground to one perched high in a tree, surrounded mostly by the treetop. The larger your Leprechaun Cottage, the more Gold you'll be able to collect from the building each day, with that Gold presumably being used in a Pot of Gold that has yet to be released. As such, a completed Leprechaun Cottage won't give off Gold just yet, but that doesn't mean you can't have a head start in building the Cottage to completion! The first stage of construction on the Leprechaun's Cottage will require just four each of Bricks, Nails, and Wooden Boards. You'll start with one ingredient for free, so you should be able to blow through this stage fairly quickly. As you move to the next stage, you'll need 16 of each item.