Street Wars is a Mafia Wars-like title where players rise the mob ranks through missions and fights.

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Some Albanians worry that the Socialists are a bit too popular in mafia-run places like Vlore.

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And as the maker of popular titles like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, San Francisco, California-based Zynga has ridden the games' skyrocketing popularity to the top of that emerging market.

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If Bersani fails, Napolitano could tap someone else, a fresh face to politics, like newly chosen Senate President Piero Grasso, a widely respected former anti-Mafia prosecutor, said D'Alimonte, a professor at LUISS university in Rome.

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On September 18th, a 75-year old businessman was shot in the leg near Milan in what looked suspiciously like a mafia ambush.

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Activision, he says, would benefit from taking control of Take-Two franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne, Bioshock, Mafia, Civilization and Midnight Club and upcoming properties including L.A. Noire and Agent.

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