Ring in the New Year with this awesome event, and play Mafia Wars today! http://zyn.ga/2C3
2010-12-25
No Crime Like the Present
2010-12-22
Mafia Wars Goes Mobile!
Go to http://m.mafiawars.com on your iPhone, Android or Blackberry device and play your current Facebook Mafia Wars character through Facebook Connect! (Support for other internet-capable phones is coming soon!)
Mafia Wars Atlantic City features:
• Gameplay with your current Facebook Mafia Wars account
• A redesigned interface, optimized for mobile devices
• Exclusive loot drop items and job tier mastery rewards
• Las Vegas currency and fight lists
• New properties page lets you collect all your cities on a single page
• Exclusive daily bonuses for logging into m.mafiawars.com each day! (Energy, Stamina, XP or City Cash)
Check out what’s going on with Mafia Wars mobile and look forward to more updates coming your way soon! Play Mafia Wars Mobile today at http://m.mafiawars.com.
*Pro Tip: book mark the mobile site on your iPhone for an awesome full-screen experience!
Click here and play Mafia Wars: http://zyn.ga/27y
2010-12-21
New Mission Feature
We’re very excited to unveil our biggest feature yet. Get ready to explore cities and content in Mafia Wars with in-game characters that guide you on Missions.
Missions are special tasks that players complete to gain rewards. Each Mission starts with an in-game character explaining what objectives you need to accomplish (i.e. do specific jobs, fight a special character, etc.) as you navigate your way through a city.
Missions provide a new way to discover all the rich content within Mafia Wars. There are Missions based on your progress within the game and Missions to guide users who haven’t finished New York or Italy. There will also be special Missions that feature limited-time special events.
All your Missions assignments will appear at the top of the Mafia Wars homepage. New, active, and completed Missions can be viewed and managed by using the Missions icon that is located at the top of the game header. Complete your Missions and you will be rewarded with awesome loot items, currency and/or experience. As an added bonus, you can share victory coins with your mafia members.
Missions are going to evolve to included more destinations and your feedback and ideas are very important. Please go to http://getsatisfaction.com/mafia_wars/ if you would like to submit your opinions and ideas.
For additional information, please visit the Zynga Customer Support Missions 411 and FAQ page.
Play Mafia Wars now to see what Missions await!
Jennifer has been an avid Mafia Wars player for over a year. She maintains her own Mafia Wars blog, The MW Loot Lady Blog and The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page.
2010-12-19
Zynga Headquarters
Before attending the Mafia Wars Meet the Family Event in San Fransisco, I was given a tour of Zynga Headquarters. This was really cool and something I've always been curious about. Zynga Headquarters 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.
When you walk inside from the front entrance, it's obvious that games are what this company is about. Nobody can just walk in and all visitors need to check in with Security first.
Each game that Zynga develops has it's own office space. Here are the offices for Cafe World, FrontierVille and the newest game CityVille. Everything at Zynga is very secretive and all the offices have tinted windows so you can't see in. What you do see on all the windows are all the promotional posters.
I was lucky enough to be able to go inside the Mafia Wars office and it was a big open space with lots of computers. You can see here that the developers work very hard. It was Saturday afternoon and 3 of them were plugging away. They were very friendly and all seemed really happy with their jobs.
Jennifer has been an avid Mafia Wars player for over a year. She maintains her own Mafia Wars blog, The MW Loot Lady Blog and The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page.