Gangland goes gold

Whiptail Interactive has moved one step closer to muscling in on the sim-game market. The West Chester, Pennsylvania-based publisher has sent its PC Mafia simulation Gangland to the factory. Developed by Media Mobsters, the game features real-time strategy and role-playing elements as well as extortion, racketeering, bribery, stealing, killing, bootlegging, seduction, prostitution, assassination, drive-by shootings, demolition, and rearing your own Mafia family. Gangland will ship on March 5. It will have an MSRP of $49.99 and an ESRB rating of "M" for Mature.