Mafia Wars South Africa Chapter 2 unlocked

Mafia Wars South Africa Challenge Mission: Chapter 2 has officially unlocked, meaning you'll need to collect more counterfeit tickets and keep the heat off your back long enough to get these done before Chapter 3 opens on Sunday, July 19.

A list of jobs is below:

mafia wars south africa chapter 2

I suspect this Chapter will be more difficult than the first, since the Double Mastery weekend is over. Now it's back to plain ole' mastery. Once all of these jobs are completed, the reward is a Tiebreaker (weapon) that packs a punch with 76 A, 42 D.

What do you think of this Challenge -- too easy, too hard?

Mafia Wars' new Account Settings cut email spam and get to the game

In what seems to be a response to the recent changes to Facebook's Application Privacy Settings, Zynga has updated Mafia Wars with a way to change your email settings within the game. Changing these settings will only affect Mafia Wars and no other Zynga game, unfortunately, but chances are this feature will find its way into the gaming titan's other games.

You can now change what Mafia Wars will update you with via email down to every last change. However, the game can only update you through email once daily when you're robbed, attacked (once each for wins and losses) and put on a Hitlist. Unfortunately, the feature is currently bugged and will hopefully be fixed shortly as it was just recently introduced. It looks like signing away your email for bonuses is about to get a tad more appealing.

Mafia Wars Silence Don Romo Job Event: Prelude to Europe's boot

Silence Don Romo
That's "Lo Stivale" for you Italian folks out there. Zynga is fueling the excitement for Italy, Mafia Wars' sixth city, with the "Silence Don Romo" event going through Oct. 16. This unique job event also brings with it a new collection, mastery item and an achievement for mastering the job by this Saturday, "Boss of Bosses."

Check behind the break for more information on this limited time event.
Silence Don Romo job guide
You can attack this job in three ways, each requiring you to collect your bonuses in varying times from five minutes to 24 hours. Only one job option can be taken at a time and have varying chances to drop an item from the Silence Don Romo collection. In other words, completing this event in time for Oct. 16 is going to take some serious planning.

Silence Don Romo Collection

The Silence Don Romo Collection contains seven items that can drop from various places within Mafia Wars in addition to when working on the job of the same name. You'll have to fight, complete jobs both in and outside of the event and send Don Romo's Pridegifts to your friends to complete this collection, which will reward you with a delicious Home-cooked Meal (18 Attack, 68 Defense). How that's going to come in handy in a mob war is beyond me, but it's a cool limited edition item nonetheless.

Lastly, completely mastering the job and the collection will net you an exclusive (well, aside from everyone else who did it) achievement, "Boss of Bosses." Also, mastering this preview event will reward you with Don Romo's Pride, a vehicle with 35 Attack and 72 Defense. All in all, not too shabby for a prelude mission. Hopefully we'll have this many options for completing jobs when Italy finally arrives some time this month.

Mafia Wars Atlantic City is live, a brand new city inside your phone

Atlantic City
For those who have suffered the inexplicable (albeit much flashier) horrors of Zynga's Mafia Wars app for iPhone, the wait for a true Mafia Wars experience on mobile is over. Atlantic City is live and ready to be pillaged for all players above Level 18. All you need to do is type this address, m.mafiawars.com, in your phone's native mobile browser (this hasn't been tested on Opera mobile yet, sorry folks) and log in using Facebook Connect.

Find out what the first real Mafia Wars game for mobile is like after the break.

Mafia Wars Fight
After logging in, you'll be surprised at how similar the experience is to its big brother on the full web Facebook. Not to mention how much faster it is (I was connected via WiFi). You have the choice of either hopping in fights--that is, with all Mafia Wars players--or taking on Atlantic City's unique jobs.

Mafia WarsJobs
Jobs operate just like normal ones with one key difference: since this is a casino town, the exclusive currency for Atlantic City is Vegas Chips. Though, for veterans of Sin City, these jobs should be cake with the amount of leftover Chips they should have. While the jobs don't contain the pretty artwork like they do on Facebook, at least completing these contributes to your actual character and not one made up for a poorly executed social app. You can even used your saved Energy packs if you run low.

Mafia Wars Level Up
Leveling up in Atlantic City is just like normal, but again, much faster. So this is what it feels like to be free of Flash, huh? Better yet, you can collect from your properties in all cities (even Italy!), though this city unfortunately doesn't have properties of its own. All in all, Mafia Wars Atlantic City is more than the ultimate companion app; it's nearly an entire city on your phone. With how smoothly the game runs on mobile, we hope this is just the beginning.

Mafia Wars' Super Pignatas return with the same old loot

Just in time for the weekend (though you'll likely be spending much more time here), Super Pignatas have returned to Mafia Wars. Unfortunately, the loot has yet to be updated. So, enjoy the same old items that have been around since these paper mache porkers first hit the scene.

On the upside, at least this gives us another chance at the super powerful Gray Wolf with 127 Attack and 94 Defense. Regardless of how impressive the item is, we wish Zynga would update these items before they're put out again as I'm sure I'm not the only one who's losing interest. It's unsure how long the Super Pignatas will be around for, so act quick if you've yet to score the Gray Wolf. If you've already been so lucky, we hear this new Atlantic City is a hoot.