The free games have just been announced by EA by way of apology for what I shall call the "Sim City incident".

In a blog on the EA site the company announced a choice of games that aren't as bad as you'd think. The list is as follows.

• Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
• Bejeweled 3
• Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
• Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
• Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition)  
• Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition) 
• Plants vs. Zombies
• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition  

EA have said that they'll be opening up the redemption portal "country by country" but that the portal will be open for everyone by March 22.  They're pretty adamant that they don't want anyone to miss out on their free game and have asked that people register their copy of SimCity before March 25, 2013 at 11:59 PM PDT and have said everyone should claim their free game on their Origin service by March 30, 2013 at 11:59PM PDT.