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MySims - Well, More Like TheirSims

Written by John Walker on August 8, 2008.

Barf bags at the ready, below is the most sickly cute trailer for MySims on the PC. (I’d link, but the game’s site is still in denial about the PC port). You can see in the trailer that the game has a lot less to do with The Sims, and a lot more to do with Animal Crossing, with a dose of Duplo. Still, it’s hard to think of a more ideal environment for kids wanting to play online, so long as supervising adults can fill their ears with cotton wool and wear medicinal sunglasses. (These are things that come as standard with the Humblebot 2.0).

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MySims Headed To PC, And Online

Written by John Walker on July 7, 2008.

Wii-based Sims spin-off, MySims, is to appear on the PC this October, along with a new 8-player online mode. The game - a sort of cross between Lego and Animal Crossing - is a cutesified, deliberately Japanese-styled game of building a town and filling it with happy, bobble-headed people. The excellent Keza assures me it’s very girly indeed.

So now it’s coming out on the PC, with online features. That’s the PC. The PC. MySims, with online features, on PC, for the PC, on PCs this October, for the PC, online. Below is EA’s press release. With the clues provided here, and in the details below, see if you can guess which format it’s for, and what the new features might involve.

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