Mafia Wars South Africa Challenge Mission: Fix the Global Cup

Over the past few days, we noticed Counterfeit Tickets in the free gifts section, and it turns out those were all to prepare us for the Mafia Wars South Africa Challenge Mission, where your mafia's mission is to fix the Global Cup. This new mission works much like Mafia Wars Paris and Mafia Wars London Challenge Missions before it -- you have 15 days to complete all three Chapters of the challenge.

Instead of Passports, this challenge requires you to collect Counterfeit tickets, which can be received as gifts and as loot from jobs and fighting. There's also a heat meter, which will only allow you to do jobs a number of times before the cops catch onto your activities (and then you have to wait 8 hours for the meter to drop before getting back to work).

Once you finish each Chapter, you'll add a limited edition reward to your armory. Here are the rewards:

Chapter 1
Goalie
A: 45 D: 58

Chapter 2
Tiebreaker
A: 76 D: 42

Chapter 3
Penalty Kick
A: 110 D: 59

Over the weekend, Mafia Wars South Africa will have double mastery bonus, which means that it'll be much easier to get through these missions. Many (me included) have had trouble finishing the previous Challenge Missions, so it's key to put the work in over this holiday weekend to make sure you fix the World Cup and take home all of that extra loot.

Mafia Wars exclusive Vegas Chips: Get 'em while they're still hot

UPDATE (7/4): The Rack of Chips is an item that can be sent as a Free Gift. Even though the Chips were only supposed to be available on Saturday, July 3, they're still seem to be hanging around today as well. To send you friends a Rack of Chips, click HERE. Happy Fourth of July everybody!

As part of the Mafia Wars 'Must Play Weekend,' the game is rolling out exclusive 'Vegas Chips' today only. From the Coming Soon section in the game:

    Mafia Wars: Las Vegas is almost here , and this Saturday, July 3rd, you'll get a chance to loot exclusive "Vegas Chips". These chips will give you an advantage when Vegas releases, so you'd better collect as many as you can get ahead of your Mafia rivals.

I haven't found any of these just yet, but if you have any tips on where to find them,

Mafia Wars undergoing HUGE changes: A new look, more boss battles

Mafia Wars as we know it is preparing to roll out some MAJOR changes that includes a complete visual overhaul and many new boss fights that will drop game-changing loot, such as new properties and weapons that will give you a permanent boost to your stats.

mafia wars new look
The unofficial word is that only new players currently have access to this overhauled Mafia Wars, which will serve as a testing ground until Zynga rolls out the game to everyone else. There's also lots of discussion on how much Flash this new version of the game will use, and how that will affect the overall performance. I recently restarted Mafia Wars from scratch and while re-playing the first New York chapters, was wondering when/if more bosses would be added to the game. Looks like the answer is 'yes.'

Check out the images in the gallery below to get a taste of what you have to look forward to (all screens courtesy of Mafia Wars master 7eetprox125.) IMAGES COMING SOON.

Gallery: The New Mafia Wars

Lost FarmVille animals being replaced?

FarmVille Freak has received quite a few emails about animals now being replenished to players who experienced loss in last week's FarmVille animal fiasco. But, are these replacements the correct animals? Many players are reporting that when logging on their farm animals have been added directly to their buildings with purpose/animal storage buildings, enough to stretch the capacity of the building, but these animals are not what they initially lost. Zynga is clearly attempting to make good on farmers losses but maybe not in the most efficient way?


FarmVille Freak Lisa lost Cream Draft Horses and Rhode Island Red Chickens but was given Grey Horses and Gold Chickens.

    I noticed something odd in my stable this morning when making my round I noticed I had more horses than there should have been room for! I had 65 horses when capacity is only 40! I guess they are trying to compensate for lost animals, but they missed the mark by far giving me such common stock when I lost the much harder to replace cream horses, red chickens and etc. :(


FarmVille Freak LittleBuePig had a similar experience:

    During Farmville's recent updates I lost 14 cows from my dairy and 10 bricks from my Japanese barn. A day of so later I received 7 cows, 30 golden chickens, 3 green calves, and no bricks. I've attached a screen shot showing by chicken coop with 60/60 chickens, but 83 golden chickens.

    FarmVille Freak LittleBuePig Incorrect Gold Chicken Replacement

FarmVille Freak Ashley found calves in her Nursery Barn, but her missing cows were not replaced:

    This morning I logged onto Farmville and noticed that in my nursery barn (where all my missing animals had been) I had 32/20 animals in there. I looked inside and noticed that I had 14 regular calfs...when before I only had about 3. I checked my other things like the dairy barn, horse stable, and chicken coop but those all seemed normal even though I did have a missing cow or two. I was just wondering if this was a glitch or will I acutally be able to keep 32 animals in there!

    FaceBook FarmVille Freak Ashley Missing Cows Replaced With Regular Calves

The good news? Some restitution plan is in action. The bad news? Players are not the receiving animals they lost. Hopefully this is just the first stage of Zynga's plan to replace our precious animals.

Have you received correct replacement animals?

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.