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The Sims online world is now home to at least two mob families.

"'We weren't playing the games as hoodlums, we were playing the game as protectors of the city,' said Mathieson [one of the mob bosses].

At least at first. Somewhere along the line, though, the Sims Shadow Government turned from benevolent overseer to a virtual version of La Cosa Nostra."

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