Zynga newest game Hidden Chronicles

Zynga is going to Launch a new game named as Hidden Chronicles  on Facebook.


You can watch the preview here.

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HCbZgEta67E


Facebook Fan page:
https://www.facebook.com/HiddenChronicles?v=app_329004010445421

Plus gain access to exclusive hidden object Mini Games.

Empires & Allies- Zynga launches its newest game

Rebuild an empire while fending off villains of The Dark Alliance. Fight alongside or against your friends–Empires & Allies is the first Zynga game to include animated player vs.
player battles!

LINK TO THE APPLICATION

http://apps.facebook.com/empiresandallies/

we'd like to hear from you

Zynga is asking its fans in mafia wars some points

How likely are you to recommend Mafia Wars to friends or family?

	Not at all likely 0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Extremely likely 10

When I play against others, Mafia Wars matches me with appropriately challenging opponents.

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly agree

What would make Mafia Wars more fun?

Zynga has my permission to contact me about my responses

PokerCon

A POKERCON event is going to be organised on March 18 and 19 Las Vegas ,Nevada.

NO LIMIT HOLD’EM TOURNAMENT


Grab a seat in the tournament and try your hand at winning a piece of the $100K cash prize pool. More than 50 skilled players will share in the winnings.

ZYNGA POKER UNIVERSITY

Poker training led by world-renowned poker pro Annie Duke. Features class session as well as hands-on poker table labs to practice your skills.


PLAY & PARTY WITH THE PROS

We have got poker pros galore! Come out for Doyle Brunson, Scotty Nguyen, Mike Sexton, David Williams, Gavin Smith, Vanessa Rousso... and more!

ANTE UP VIP BASH FEATURING B.O.B.


Join us for a private VIP bash at the Moon nightclub at the Palms partying with award-winning artist, B.o.B.

PLAYERS LOUNGE


Enjoy music, drinks, gaming and more in the PokerCon Players lounge. Have your photo taken with one of the Zynga Poker Girls, meet and mingle with other Zynga Poker players and participate in contests to win great prizes!

MEALS


Complimentary breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided throughout the 2-day event for all those attendees wearing their PokerCon Pass.


GET YOUR TICKETS 

April 8th Mafia Wars Meet up

1st World Wide mafia meet is going yo be held on 8th April' 11.You can get down here to plan your meet.
http://www.meetup.com/mafiawars/

Plan a face-to-face gathering with your fellow Mafia Wars fans and players in your city during the 1st Worldwide "Mafia Meetup" Day on Friday April 8th.

Customer Support upgrade

Customer support site is currently under upgrade mode(1st march '11) for a while and will be back but no time limit is specified

Live forum chat

On 12 February  zynga is going to hold live forum chat where you can ask questions and will be answered asap..All developers and others will be sitting to answer your query
Chat will begin 2:00 pm PST

Rules for the Forum Chat: Questions & Answers thread:

1. If it is not a question, do not post it.
2. One question per poster. (If you don't ask it, someone else will.)
3. As always, the RoC applies. This does include number 6 in full.

You can access the live forum here


http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=913800

Crack The Safe

Crack the Safe is live for all the players of mafia wars.Its highlights

• Install the mafia wars game
• Like the mafia wars fan page
• Get 5 friends to play the game
• Allow mafia wars to publish your stream of its own.

Reward

Warp Speed 97 52

Quality: Superior 

Type: Weapons

Sub-Types:

Location: Special Event

Correct way to complete Frontierville promotion

Here is the correct way to complete the promotion to get your items.

Frontierville (Beaver Pelt) Promotion

1. Go to your New York properties tab and click on either your Weapon Depot or your Chop Shop.
2. Select the option that states "Get Part" represented with a horseshoe to start the promotion.
3. A window will automatically open to launch Frontierville, select "Get Part" once more to be transferred to Frontierville.
4. Once transferred into Frontierville, located the "A Day in the Life of a Beaver" If you cannot locate this mission the left side of your game, it can be found under the "Click to view more missions" icon
5. Complete the mission by:
   • Collecting 15 Wood
   • Clearing One Stump on your Homestead
   • Buy or Have Two Fences
6. Proceed to the "A Day in the Life of a Beaver II" mission. After Clicking on the "Claim Rewards" button Mafia Wars will launch and you will receive a congratulations message when returning to Mafia Wars.  

Source zynga support 
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1/19 Suspensions

Recently some players accounts got suspended by the zynga for the violation of the Terms of Service, Section 1.9, clauses U and W, pertaining to recent payment attempts.


They have updated there FAQ with this info and as reported the suspensions will be lifted once the investigations are completed and some action is being taken by them ,might be the roll back of account to some previous state.


You can read the info here

Give feedback to zynga

To improve the game more and get the interest of the other players back zynga is asking for the feedback and link is available on the homepage of your mafia page.

If you would like to win 1 of 2 Amazon $100 gift cards,you can submit your email address to them after finishing the survey.

Survey is quite interesting as for the first time from this survey zynga has actually reveal there future plans for our mafia game.
If you go through the survey you will come to know many new features that are about to come if that feature get most feedback form the players.
Some of the highlights like

• Mini games
• Stamina packs
• Level up more rewards
• Clan feature
• More social missions
• Wishlist improvement
• Gift improvement
• Item improvement 
• Item selection
• Extended Daily takes
• Profile page improvement
• User tutorial
• Epic Boss fights
• Epic quest

Which you think is most attractive to you???

Cast Your Votes

Zynga has asked mafia players to vote ,So you have  3 choices.

Mafia Action House - Get your loot
More Mini Games -  play and earn reward point just like slot machine
More Fight Events - Bosses , fight events.

You can vote for all thee events or just the choice you want.More mini games has got more votes till now.

Player Advisory Committee

Got an email from zynga who have signed for the i love mafia wars program.According to email :

We are putting together a Player Advisory Committee and we are looking for great players to be a part of it!
 
If you are excited about playing Mafia Wars and want to take an active part in the improvement and direction of the game, then we want you.  We are looking for a wide spectrum of people, from new players to experienced players and all levels in between.
 
Simply send an email with:

• Your Name
• Your Birthdate (must be over 18 years oldto participate)
• Your City & Country (and state if in US)
• Your Facebook ID
• And a brief description of why you would make a good candidate on the Player Committee.  (no more than 500 words)

 
What we are looking for:

• Ideas to enhance the game
• Willingness to provide feedback about new functionality
• Ability to spread information from Zynga to the community and vice versa
• Willingness to organize and/or lead various initiatives.
• Community Leaders

 
If this is something you would be interested in, please email the above information toVIP@mafiawars.com

Account rollback

Zynga has Recently fixed date 13 January and issue due to which some accounts have got rollback to previous state as of 24 hours.This has been notified at the zynga forum Jonieze.

They are investigating the case and stability issues.If you have lost some thing that will restored with you will compensated with the same as sorry from zynga for the inconvenience.
Link for customer care
http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/home

If your account has been affected you can wait for updates or file a ticket in Customer Support, please be patient if filing a ticket as we may have longer than normal ticket lines.

http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=875389

Auld Sang Lyne Grand Prize missing

Auld Sang Lyne Grand Prize

You will get this item only if you have maintained 45 gifts in your Christmas tree before opening the gifts.Some have reported that it is missing and zynga team is investing the case.

You can see the issue here

http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3397/cissues/1/session/L3NpZC95dEVsSTdqaw%3D%3D

Mafia wars in the year 2010

Another year successfully passed by mafia wars on Facebook.Many game came as a challenged to the game like crime city,auto hustle etc but the existing user base is still with the game and not ready to leave.

Although the DAU anf MAU have declined a lot you can verify that on Appsdata mafia wars.

Let us look at some of up and downs in the mafia wars in the year passed 2010.

Zynga gave us lot of new features ,updates from small to big ones,bugs,glitches to exploit,ban to play mafia wars, suspension,new games,promotions,new marketing strategies.mafia blog and many more.Here's the brief intro to some of the most important highlights of the year 2010.

Zynga changes/updates in the game:

• Stamina now cost just one skill point instead of two.This was the most important update that changed the game play totally later.
• Animals a new category that will fight that bring with it animal zoo to build your own animals.
• Robbing is back ,with different interface,new achievements and collections.
• Chop shops etc properties got live where you can build items according yo your needs +6 stamina ,energy or 10 to 20 health points increase or even the skill points.
• New loot that only drop from fight.FHEL,BHEL etc so higher the stamina more chances to get 501 of each of these loot.
• Stamina refill from the cross promotions and zynga tool bar but was exploited to use it without any need to install the tool bar and get energy boost every day .Read HERE.
• zynga loyalty program to give benefits to those players who spend much money in the game and it was fair enough and they maintained a fair play by not giving them much a advantage but still diamond player got HARBINGER.
• Introduction of new cities las vegas, Italy one after the other.
• Starting ZLOTTO there another website to promote the games and give user some of limited item if they were able to find the keys.It is closed now.
• Declare war is now changed with some new features and items plus the achievement to complete.
• Introduced a slot machine in the game to distribute reward points if you are lucky to hit the jackpot.
• Introduction of social mission. challenge missions,Missions and other challenges.
• Introduced  atlantic city to be played on mobile phones but you can play it online on browser as well.
• Introduced mastery bags.pignatas and may other as gifting feature to get some good weapons and other rewards.
• Introduced double mastery and also triple mastery in new york and bangkok cities to help player who are newbie and who are lacking behind to advance faster and finish the older cities.
• New inventory is live and now you can hide your loot from other or make it public.
• lucky stash,icing feature that you can see on fight list,new look of top mafia's.
• fixed the long lasting bug of people promoting themselves to top mafia positions.
• The fight club in vegas earn victory coins in fights and you can get achievements plus you can buy weapons ,boost with these as you increase your fight mastery.
• They improved the customer care and now you get response much quicker and no need to wait for many weeks to get the response.
• They introduced there own mafia blog and got much in touch with us by organizing mafia wars fan event to meet with the developers San Francisco  and in India as well.They ran different poll ass well on there forums.
• Multi gifting to send many gifts same time is another good update.
• introduced mafia wars on yahoo platform.
• And many more bunch of updates if i write i have to write will take much long time but you can read some of TOP UPDATES AND EVENTS 

We all heading to new year with new features currently running as Christmas event , challenge mission 50,000 feet and hustling with DRE.I would like to wish happy new year to all fans of this website and there continue support that made this website running our warm regards and thanks.
looking forward to your continued to support in coming year and bring much users as you can so we play our game all together as a family.

Free health point

Mafia wars is giving a free health point for being a loyal fan.After giving the one defense point few days back now they are giving the health point.soon i think you may get one skill point also.These should be done in regular intervals by zynga

Claim your health point click

HERE

What would you like to see next in the mafia wars?

The poll was running for weeks on mafia forums and now the post is cleared with the following results.

View Poll Results: What would you like to see next in the game?
Scrapyard (get rid of stuff I will never use or gift)		193	41.68%
Zoo (Animals)		175	37.80%
Need a better notification for wars declared on me!		99	21.38%
Stamina Packs!		268	57.88%
Lighten up on the Pop-ups		239	51.62%
Autoblock while doing Boss Fights		153	33.05%
Energy rollover/carryover		279	60.26%
How many energy/stamina required for Missions (notice)		58	12.53%
Want to have in game messaging!		66	14.25%
Improve loot drops!		296	63.93%

As you can see the votes are in favors of loot drops improvement and energy rollover carry over as we level up.most of users have voted for this.Other point that has got much votes are the stamina packs and reduce the number of pop ups in the game.and other got the mixed reactions.Well the energy roll over is that zynga will not implement as all will bank energy and level up and finish everything fast who have lot of energy under there belt.
It is to see when zynga will listen to these and actually implement them LIVE.
Link to the poll http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=803889