Source: Blog.games.com
A note on the Mafia Wars Facebook page gives some more details about the new expansion, including the fact that the game will be “more accessible” to newer players.
Players levels 18 to 200 will use a sliding scale for the amount of energy required to complete missions and the payouts for those missions [...]

Source: Blog.games.com
The Mafia Wars front page has been retooled, and will be rolling out to players over the next week.
Why should you care? The new design is much less cluttered than the old (see comparison below) and messages have been consolidated to make room for the new Recommendations Box, which will suggest up to three [...]

For decades, the Japanese Yakuza and Chinese Triads have battled for control over the lucrative criminal markets of Thailand. You can choose who you wish to ally with as you progress through Bangkok’s gritty underworld, unlocking progressively stronger weaponry with your chosen faction but gaining increasing hatred from the opposition.
* Bangkok was announced on December [...]

*NOTE:As of recently, you can no longer choose your character type when starting a new game.
Choosing your Character type strategy
After installing Mafia Wars for the first time, you will be given the chance to choose your character type. Each character type can generate a certain skill faster than normal, and each character type gains [...]

Your wish list, found on both your Profile page and on your Inventory page under Loot, is a place where you can identify up to three items that you’d like gifted to you by your Mafia members. It has to be loot that CAN be gifted, but there are a great number of items including [...]

Collections are groups of 7 themed loot items. Almost every job tier has at least one collection. The Underboss and Boss job tiers in New York, along with the El Cacique tier in Cuba, are the only job tiers with no associated collections. Specific collections can be obtained by completing the jobs in that collection’s [...]

Zynga has a free gift program where people can send their friends a free gift. As of August 23, 2009, the program was expanded to allow gifting an item from the collection set and the boost set. As of October 6, 2009, Capuccino, Problem Solver, Fixer, Blueprints and Inside Tip are removed from the boost [...]

Good evening. Please, don’t be alarmed. You may call me … Don Grossman. You might know me from such Facebook status updates as Don Grossman won a fight with your help! and Don Grossman sent you a gift in Mafia Wars. Yes, that’s right. I’m in the mafia. Uh, wars. I’m in Mafia Wars.
Mafia Wars [...]

There are lots of Mafia wars cheats available all over the Net, however let me explain that this is a lot different to the usual codes and cheats you will find on other PC games. Sadly for Mafia wars is there’s not one code that would instantly give you one trillion Godfather points, or give [...]

Collection Tips
Mafia Wars collections are a fantastic way of snatching up some extra bonuses that you can use to fleece your competition. The collection rewards are specific a tier and can only be found on that tier.
What about your inventory? Do you collect items for your vault? Do you collect rare items from [...]