The Mafia Series are single player, third person shooter sandbox style video games involving fictional Mafia families and set in fictional or reimagined American cities. They currently consist of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia II, Mafia II Mobile with Mafia III scheduled for release on October 7, 2016. They were developed by Illusion Softworks, now named 2K Czech after being bought by 2K Games. The first two games were developed in the Czech Republic and published in several languages, including English, Spanish, German, Russian, and Czech.