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Mafia II: Director’s Cut Out For Mac

January 3, 2012
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2K Czech's Mafia 2 was released back in late 2010 but now it's out on Mac thanks once again to the fine folks at Feral Interactive who ported over this tale of greed and corruption in the mobster underworld. But we aren't just getting Mafia 2, we also get the Director's Cut with all...

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Mafia Wars Game Maybe Not So Popular

January 1, 2012
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If you ask Mafia Wars Loot Lady, a dedicated Mafia Wars fan blog, one of Zynga's first games could soon be on the chopping block. MW Loot Lady writer Jennifer Patterson took it upon herself recently to get a better of exactly how many players log into the game daily, and the results aren't...

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Woman Embezzles $166,000 Some Goes to Mafia Wars

December 19, 2011
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Bettysue Higgins, former administrative assistant for the Maine Trial Lawyers Association pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges after her fraudulent spending on casual video games was revealed. Between 2006 and 2010, Higgins wrote out around 220 checks using the forged signature of the firm's executive director Steven Prince. In the last two years, and these...

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This Christmas Its Omerta

December 18, 2011
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Omerta Game Ltd have announced that their Mafia-themed web game, Omerta has reset its international .com version with a smoother gameplay experience and brand new features. Omerta's success over the years was brought to the game not by advertising, but (more or less) entirely by word of mouth. "We've never paid for an advertisement...

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Some Mafia Wars Users Spent $50,000 in One Day

December 17, 2011
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Zynga, the company that produced Mafia Wars and Mafia Wars 2 went public today as you might have heard, raising one billion dollars in its public offering. In this fascinating interview with Bloomberg, the developer of Mafia Wars, Roger Dickey, reveals that some users have spent thousands of dollars playing and upgrading their way...

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Omerta Game Ltd Relaunching German Version Omerta

December 1, 2011
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The popular German version of browser-based MMORPG, Omerta – populated by Deutsch speaking players – has been counting down to the much anticipated version 3.3 relaunch for over 2 weeks. Omerta Game LTD have announced the game will be available again on Thursday, Dec 1st. Version 3.3 allows players unprecedented control over how they...

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Mafia Wars 2 Loses 36 Per Cent of Users

November 28, 2011
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The sequel to one of Zynga's most successful social games is under-performing after a drop of over 900,000 players over the last month. Sales of Mafia Wars 2 have not met the company’s own expectations, according to people inside the company who were not authorized to speak on the record. Research firm AppData has...

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New Game: Mafia Wars Shakedown

November 19, 2011
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Zynga is at it again, this time with a rebuffed free-to-play style game coined Mafia Wars Shakedown. If this type of multi-player genre fuels your gaming engine then strap in because it’s time to go to mattresses. That’s right, this ode to organized crime continues to be one of the most addicting games available...

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Yahoo Launches Mafia Wars & FishVille

November 18, 2010
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Back in May Tech Crunch reported on a partnership that social gaming giant Zynga had forged with Yahoo that would integrate some of Zynga’s games throughout the Yahoo network. Today, Yahoo has launched Mafia Wars and FishVille. The games will appear as part of Yahoo’s Messenger, its Games portal, ‘My Yahoo’, its browser Toolbar,...

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Ndrangheta Buying Winning Lotto Tickets

September 24, 2010
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Police say members of the 'Ndrangheta are tracking down multi million dollar lottery winners in order to use their tickets as a means to launder drug money.  The mobsters pay the prize value to the ticket holders with drug money and then use the tickets to claim clean money from the government. Carabinieri investigators...

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