Mafia Wars skill points just got much easier to spend

There’s nothing more rewarding than growing stronger via leveling up in Mafia Wars — but for those who are devoted energy players or fighters — adding all of those skill points can be an exercise in excessive clicking. Now Mafia Wars makes it easier to level up by allowing virtual mobsters to add five points at once to a certain category. I am, for instance, more of an energy player than a fighter, so this makes it much easier to just assign points quickly and then move onto the next thing

FrontierVille may soon have a new official home — FrontierVille.com

Filed under: FrontierVille FrontierVille might soon have a new official home — other than Facebook. In our daily browsing, we ran across FrontierVille.com , which — for now — simply has a link to the current game (and the Facebook logo). Considering that Mafia Wars and FarmVille both also live on their own dot-coms (FarmVille.com, MafiaWars.com) — we’ll bet our Snake Cannon that we’ll soon be able to tend to our virtual piece of the Wild West without the added step of going to Facebook first

Mafia Wars Paris Challenge Missions: Everything you need to know

Grab those tourist maps and get raedy to take your Mafia Family to the City of Light. That’s right — a sneak peek of Mafia Wars Paris snuck out under the radar over the weekend

Digital Chocolate lays out its Mafia Wars trademark case against Zynga

Filed under: Mafia Wars Games.com — The Blog has obtained a complete copy of the lawsuit that Trip Hawkins’ Digital Chocolate served against Zynga earlier this week over the company’s use of the Mafia Wars trademark. In it, Digital Chocolate methodically lays out its argument that, “through duplicity and bad faith, [Zynga] effectively hijacked the MAFIA WARS mark” that Digital Chocolate had a prior right to. According to the court documents (the first 18 pages of which can be found here ), Digital Chocolate’s use of the name Mafia Wars began in June of 2004, when the company got the game in its acquisition of Finnish company Sumea Interactive.

Mafia Wars Mumbai Challenge Mission opens for business

Filed under: Mafia Wars Mafia Wars Mumbai Challenge Mission Chapter 1: Hooray for Hollywood is officially open for business.

Mafia Wars fan page contest: Enter to win an iPod or Mafia Wars swag

Over the weekend, Mafia Wars launched contest on its fan page, and you can enter to win an iPod or Mafia Wars swag through August 18. Sign up for the Mafia Wars fan page , and then keep your eyes peeled for a daily post that has ‘Contest Day’ in the title. Then, learn everything you need to do next in this post from Mafia Wars’ community manager Victoria: “In celebration of the Mafia Wars Armored Truck Blow-Up event (http://blog.mafiawars.com/2010/08/th…red-truck.html), we’ll be hosting an additional mini sweepstakes on the Mafia Wars fan page! Starting Saturday, August 14th and going through Aug 18th, be on the lookout for 5 updates to the official Mafia Wars fan page (http://www.facebook.com/MafiaWarsFans) with “Contest Day” in the title (i.e.: “Contest Day 1″).

Mafia Wars Beat the Feds event: Ten days and counting to beat these four bosses

Filed under: Mafia Wars Many mafiosos may remember that a Beat the Feds job made a brief appearance before (presumably for testing purposes), but was yanked before many could complete the job. Looks like everyone’s getting a second change to test their mafia’s mettle with a new Mafia Wars Beat the Feds event that kicks off Friday, August 13.

Mafia Wars Daily Take promises big payouts for devoted players

Filed under: Mafia Wars If you’re like me, you play Mafia Wars, but sometimes you forget to play every single day of the week. Occasionally, other social games, family, life in general sometimes cause me to neglect my burgeoning criminal empire. That might change now that Mafia Wars has rolled out The Daily Take, which promises payouts for players who stop by every day of the week.

Mafia Wars Crew Collections: Score loot with a little help from your friends

Mafia Wars family members keep growing ever more important as the game rolls out buildings (like the Chop Shop) and, now collections — called Crew Collections — that require a helping hand from friends to complete. There are three types of special Crew Collections — Weapons Shipment Hijacking, Prototype Carjacking and Theft of a drone. Each collection requires 7 items, and when completed, will reward you with limited edition loot.

FrontierVille Sharp Axe: New Mafia Wars x-promo item is a one-hit wonder

Filed under: FrontierVille FrontierVille introduces the new Sharp Axe, which you can earn by leveling up in an other Zynga game, Mafia Wars. If there were an infomercial for this new frontier tool, I’d imagine it’d go something like this: “Let me axe you something — are you tired of spending up to 12 energy to chop down trees? Then, you have to spend even more energy scaring away bears.

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