MyPlayCity has hit the magic 500 Free Games mark! Since last fall, they've been adding a game a day and have now hit this level.
---edited by graylox: Though they call it "Free Games" in truth it's just Adware!---
Today's new game is Magic Tale which was the Free Game of the Month back in November from Alawar's GameBox. That's the one that most of us had to contact Alawar because there was no way to unlock the game - that part of the gamebox didn't work.
MyPlayCity does insist on the inclusion of their toolbar (by Ask.com) but does not insist on you using it. It's very happy with the toolbar being disabled in both IE and FF. If you use their simple "recommended" install, it will install the toolbar, set Ask.com as your default search engine, hijack your home page AND install the game into Program Files. If you select "custom", you can block the changes except for the installation of the toolbar and tell it where to install the game and place the shortcut.
Note - I was having a big problem with the MPC toolbar for awhile. Even though it was disabled in IE, it checked TWICE every time I opened IE on whether to enable it. The second attempt was after I said to to stay disabled, it would open a separate window and ask again. I finally got that resolved when I installed CCleaner and ran it's registry check. It found register errors relating to ask.com and when they were cleaned out, the problem cleared up. I have no idea how the registry entries got corrupted - I was just glad it was over. Now I have no problems. As long as I leave the toolbar installed but disabled, it is basically ignored by new installs.