The staff want to thank everyone for their patience while we (well one of us) gets the site back up to it's full glory. For those of you wondering when that will be we are going to use the Duke Nukem Forever release date answer "It will be done when it's done".

We have realised that new members have no idea how to contact us at the moment, if you have a question that needs to be answered by a staff member you can get in touch with us using this email address, mafiascenestaff(@)gmail.com.

Also later today we will be releasing the commissions latest project, keep an eye out for it.

Please excuse the rather barren look of the site at the moment. Our recent server change and site upgrades has left us looking a little bare . However, over the coming months we'll be working hard to put everything back into order, downloads, gallery and so on.

So look forward to some changes and thank you for your patience. One more thing... there might be one or two problems, if you find anything please let us know, thanks!

Well after a very slack last month or so on the news updates I am about to bring you some of the latest happenings in the Mafia 2 universe. Most (all) of this information is available in our mafia 2 information vault, but I am going to give you the crème de la crème of the selection.

First up we have a few images that show of some of the action packed gaming we can expect, and also a shot of what looks to be the Mafia 2 version of the carcyclopedia.

IGN have posted up a new preview today, entitled "The Open World". In the preview they describe in detail a 30 minute demo they recieved from 2KC at GamesCon 2009. Here's a small taster of what they wrote about:

It's early evening in Empire Bay, so the traffic is thin and the street lights are just starting to come on. The team is intentionally staying away from a true time of day and weather cycle in the game because they want to establish the right mood for each of their set pieces. Anyone who remembers the farm level in the original Mafia know just how much the rainy night contributed to the atmosphere of the scene.

No new screenshots or videos unfortunately, but hopefully there'll be more to come soon. Be sure to head on over to IGN and check out the full preview right here. Once you've read the whole thing, head back here to discuss the latest preview in our Forums!

After our most glorious search for applicants to the Commission we are pleased to announce that we have 7 new members to help make that site even more awesome. After an extensive interview process where we checked background records and demanding psychological testing we have decided that the following seven people are so amazing that they deserve to have a shiny new rank and do fun tasks on the site...

• donotbugme
• Matteo
• theslayer663
• geran30
• poaaf
• tommy angelo 1930
• AsaSK

Congrats guys, HAVE FUN!