Mafia Wars by Zynga

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Released This Week
Steal Of The Summer!
It's summertime, and the stealin’ was easy! This was a super blowout sale on most items in the Marketplace, and buying 15 items earned one the Wrist Rockets for free!
Family Mastery Event: Death By Ice
Think your Mafia Wars Family is the strongest? Prove it in this event by collecting as many ices as you can to boost your Family to the top of the leader board!
New Operations!
Kidnap, assassinate, frame, take over, rig, & steal in 6 brand new Operations!
New Mission: Black Market
Lisa Jenning's little sister has been kidnapped in the Big Apple. You’ll be handsomely rewarded with a Widow Knife (52/150) for bringing her back.
Mastery Event: Freedom Fighters
Send your mafia free fighting boosts to earn gold Mastery and receive the Grand Prize: Freedom Eagle (151/114)!
Red Hot & Blue Limited Edition Items
Four new Independence Day (US) themed LE items available until Tuesday, July 5th!

This Week's Major Bug Fixes
BUG: Kills, which count as two ices elsewhere in the game, were not counting at all toward ice counters in "Ice X opponents" mission tasks.
FIXED: Kills now add 2 to mission task ice counters.
BUG: Friend names were not filtering correctly while one typed in the "Start Typing a Name" box on the Free Gifts page and the Inventory Gifting page.
FIXED: Name lists now filter correctly in response to what a player types.

Coming Next Week*
*As far as is currently scheduled, but things can change.
New Mission: Jackpot
Join Michelle Paulis and do anything to win in a mission to rig the lottery in your favor.
New Mystery Bags
Boosts are coming! Send friends the new mystery bags and they could get a crazy amount of rare fighting boosts. The combined strength of these boosts would make Popeye trash his entire supply of spinach!
Info from Official Mafia Wars Blog