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My copy of The Sims Medieval Exclusive Collector’s Edition has arrived yesterday and I’m feeling really lucky to have it. And that is for two reasons: first of all, I didn’t expect the game to be so cute and funny. Maybe because I haven’t read too much about it, I didn’t know what to expect, but after three hours of playing, the game seems to be a lot of fun. It’s a small distraction from the original Sims with some hints of RPG (but I’m sure you know this already). I’m pretty sure I’ll be playing it for the next couple of weeks quite intensively.

But second of all, I got it for the best price I could ever imagine! I’ve had the collector’s edition in my wishlist at Game.co.uk for a while. The price was a little expensive for me at the beginning and I really didn’t plan to pay £45 and £3 for shipping. But then the price dropped to £32 and then again to £25 I was like okay, I need to get it before it’s completely sold out–and again it dropped to astonishing £20! The price is now the same as for the limited or the regular version. (Actually, the regular version was a little steeper and it’s already sold out at Game.co.uk. Don’t ask me why.)

So of course, I grabbed my copy quickly and I now finally have it. In case you wanted to get a copy, too, I highly recommend the collector’s edition, since it comes with a poster, artworks booklet, a plumbob wax seal (very cute!), original soundtrack, some exclusive downloadable content and also a plumbob papercut. The box is very pretty, too: it looks like a big old book.

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There seems to be some exciting news to come: EA has launched a Facebook event called Super Secret Surprise! x2.

The date has been changed! We have upgraded this Super Secret Surprise event to “Super Secret Surprise! x2″ because we have even bigger news to announce! We will still share something on March 31st, but look forward to the new date.

Come to the official The Sims 3 Facebook’s fan page to hear about our big surprise! Trust us, it’s something BIG and you’ll definitely want to be here to be one of the first to hear the news. Any ideas what it might be?

I guess one thing will be a new expansion pack. Or could they announce two? Well, we already know there will be Generations and Pets.

Also, The Sims Medieval has already hit the shelves. Lucky you who got it, I don’t have money for it right now. However, I found some pretty cool pictures and unboxing photos to make me drool.

On another note, I’m collecting the “vintage” Sims games right now. I already bought The Sims 1 few months ago. Today I bought Vacation and Unleased — all in the original “big” boxes. Actually, the seller from eBay was selling more Sims games in one pack: The Sims Life Stories (which I never played, yay! — fully boxed), Living Large (unboxed), The Sims Deluxe (unboxed) and there was also Vacation prima game guide (plus Vacation and Unleased EPs, as I mentioned). All for 25 bucks with shipping (plus shipping to Slovakia, since I need to ship that from USA, but it won’t be more than 15 bucks anyways). That’s a great deal, isn’t it? I will still buy the other games with original boxes from someone else. Hopefully next month when I have more money. But I’m still happy with this!

Have you heard the news? There’s a new Sims game coming up! It’s not an expansion, it’s a whole new Sims game similar to The Sims Castways and all sorts of “stories” Sims games.

I’m really glad this is not an expansion. I don’t mind for anything medieval in The Sims 3 and after last semester at school, I’ve realized I don’t want to see anything medieval for a while. This would totally ruin it. But anyways, it’s going to be for Mac and PC, comes out on 24th March 2011 and looks quite interesting.

Just a few quick links:

• The Sims: Medieval official site,
• first screenshots,
• preview (as stolen by TSR, oh gosh).

So what do you think? I have to say I’m quite keen on the idea of medieval Sims with story, but not entirely. Medieval stuff has never really been my thing, but who knows, maybe with more info things will turn out quite interesting.