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Enjoy eating at Taco Bell?  Have a kid?  Head on down to your local Taco Bell and grab a kids meal, they are giving away MySims PC for free!  I’m going to be heading down there myself later on to pick one up…I can’t stand the food, but I don’t think my nephew will mind. 

Is this the lowest deal ever?  If you missed out on the Wii game, you can pick up the PC version for cheap – which has online features – at Amazon.  $3 in fact.  Something tells me that this game will soon have it’s servers axed by EA…Thanks to InfiniteSims for spotting this.

I’m fine with bundles, 2 games for a low price is great for those that may of missed out on playing them the first go-around.  The problem is the so called ‘great price’ which for this bundle, isn’t all that great.  GameStop put up a new product page for a MySims Wii Bundle that includes both the original MySims game and MySims Racing.  Their price point at this time?  $50.  I can get both of these – on Ebay – for about $30 with a little time spent searching. Here’s the product information below.  Credit goes to InfiniteSims for the find.

Get two of your favorite MySims games in one pack with MySims and MySims Racing. In MySims, with a little creativity and help from the locals, you can bring the town to life. In MySims Racing, build your winning car and take on tricky opponents on a variety of challenging tracks. With two great games in one bundle, the fun never stops with the MySims!

MySims

• Create yourself and your friends
• Shape your community and decide who lives there
• Design a world that’s uniquely yours- from buildings to furniture
• Socialize with the locals and uncover all sorts of surprising treasures

MySims Racing

• Race to the finish across a huge variety of exotic tracks
• Build your winning car by customizing its power, acceleration, and handling
• Compete against up to four racers for prizes and bragging rights
• Get ahead of the curve with awesome power-ups like the heat seeking jack-o-lantern pumpkin or bubble dropper

I am proud to say that I contributed 0 hours to the following data collected from the Nintendo Channel for the month of October…I have good intentions and own many EA games – I just don’t have the time to focus on them due to the fact that I’m glued to my PC!

Average total playing time per Nintendo Channel user, since the game’s launch
Rock Band 2 – 45 hours, 30 minutes
FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play – 34 hours, 21 minutes
Rock Band – 31 hours, 47 minutes
The Godfather: Blackhand Edition – 28 hours, 52 minutes
Madden NFL 08 – 28 hours, 39 minutes
MySims – 25 hours, 46 minutes
Madden NFL 09 All-Play – 24 hours, 18 minutes
MySims Kingdom – 22 hours, 9 minutes
Need for Speed: Uncover – 22 hours, 1 minute
Tiger Wood PGA Tour 08 – 21 hours, 26 minutes
Need for Speed Carbon – 20 hours, 17 minutes
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play – 19 hours, 10 minutes
NBA Live 09 All-Play – 18 hours, 28 minutes
The Sims 2: Pets – 18 hours, 15 minutes
Need for Speed: Pro Street – 18 hours, 1 minute
NCAA Football 09 All-Play – 17 hours, 50 minutes
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 – 16 hours, 47 minutes
Skate It – 16 hours, 22 minutes
The Sims 2: Castaway – 14 hours, 41 minutes
Boom Blox – 14 hours, 21 minutes
Boom Blox Bash Party – 13 hours, 45 minutes
Madden NFL 10 – 12 hours, 38 minutes
The Beatles: Rock Band – 12 hours, 1 minute
Boogie Superstar – 11 hours, 21 minutes
EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis – 11 hours, 50 minutes
Littlest Pet Shop – 11 hours, 25 minutes
Monopoly – 11 hours, 1 minute
SimCity Creator – 10 hours, 11 minutes
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 9 hours, 10 minutes
MySims Racing – 8 hours, 32 minutes
Boogie – 7 hours, 43 minutes
SimAnimals – 7 hours, 17 minutes
EA Sports Active – 7 hours, 15 minutes
MySims Party – 6 hours, 57 minutes
NASCAR Kart Racing – 6 hours, 34 minutes
AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack – 6 hours, 21 minutes
Nerf N-Strike – 6 hours, 2 minutes
Rock Band Track Pack, Volume 2 – 5 hours, 43 minutes

From Kotaku

Today has been smashing with video game deals.  Thankfully I already own a copy of MySims for PC…do you?  LadyM discovered that the PC version of MySims is on sale at Amazon for the low price of $4.89.  If you’ve never played the game that started it all, then $5 is a must!  It’s less than a meal at McDonalds

Anybody from the UK care to send over a MySims Wii skin and the Spore Hero controller skin?  Jack Griffiths from SimGalaxy showed off both skins that he obtained from the Official Nintendo Magazine.  Looking at these and then glancing over to my Wii makes me jealous, lol

While yes, they both are very cool…I don’t think any skin will be able to top the following.

EA Store is holding a couple of deals for the US and UK relating to The Sims 3 and MySims for PC.  Shoutout to the peeps over at SimsFanZone for the following information.

Those who live in the UK if you purchase the digital download version of The Sims 3, you’ll also be able to download MySims PC for free!  Better hurry though, as this deal is only for the weekend of June 6th thru 7th.

US users…we get a deal, but a crappy one.  If you order The Sims 3 and MySims, you’ll receive 15% off your order (boo)

I hope EA is considering ditching SecuROM on all of their games.  Today, they have made an effort to put one step further in the crusade against SecuROM by issuing De-Authorization tools for many of their games.  They now have tools for MySims PC, Spore (actually Spore’s been available for some time), Spore Creature Creator, The Sims 2 Apartment Life, The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff and The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff.

Games released after May 2008 allowed users to authorize up to 5 computers to play the game on at the same time.  By using these tools, an authorization slot will be freed up and will let you install the game on another computer.  If you want to reauthorize, all you need to do is relaunch the game.

While sure, this isn’t exactly what we wanted, it’s a start.  I’d love to see them take effort in removing SecuROM from the game’s exe file, but chances are that would require more effort as they’d have to recompile the game’s code again without the SecuROM program embedded…

Click the box to grab the De-Authorization Tool that you need.  I’ll add these to SimPrograms sometime tomorrow – it’s getting late

You’ll love

* Fun building furniture
* Similar appeal to Animal Crossing
* Lots of details to find

You’ll hate

* No real complexity
* Frustrating searches for items
* Little replay value

GamesRadar gives MySims PC a good rating of 7

EA released 3 new screens for the mobile version of MySims today: