World's Number One Football Game Hits Nokia Mobile Gaming Platform,
Delivering Most Intuitive Mobile Football Experience to Date
LONDON, Nov 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
EA Mobile(TM), a division of Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS), today
announced the availability of EA SPORTSTMFIFA
09 for Nokia N-Gage. EA SPORTSFIFA 09 is the most
accessible and immersive football experience ever brought to mobile,
with smoother, simplified gameplay and a host of options for sharing and
comparing team performance with other players through Nokia's N-Gage
Arena.
Chris Gibbs, Head of Studio, EA Mobile Europe, comments: "We are excited
to bring FIFA 09 to the N-Gage platform. The smooth gameplay and
fantastic graphics it delivers on Nokia N-Gage mobile devices and the
unique community dimension enabled by connectivity to N-Gage Arena shows
how marrying intuitive control systems with innovative features can take
sports action games to new heights on the mobile platform."
"EA SPORTS FIFA 09 is one of the most sophisticated football
videogames ever created, and Nokia is thrilled to bring it to the N-Gage
community," says Gregg Sauter, Director of Third Party Publishing,
Nokia. "It's a game of two halves: ultra-realistic in-game controls,
combined with the ability to rate your skills against friends in the
N-Gage Arena."
Featuring the cream of football talent across 100 European teams from
the Premiership, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga 1 and Ligue 1, EA SPORTSFIFA 09 delivers the most fluid football gameplay ever seen on
mobile. A simple but addictive two button control system opens up new
passing and shooting options as well as stunning skill moves including
stepovers, 360s and through-balls, whilst more creative opponent player
AI delivers fantastic movement off the ball and highly realistic
opposition attacking and defensive patterns.
Players can track their teams'progress against the rest of the world
through connectivity to Nokia's N-Gage Arena. Players can upload their
progress to the online leaderboards that rank performance in Career
Points, Games Won, Red Cards accrued and many other statistics. Other
new features in EA SPORTSFIFA 09 include a realistic Man
of The Match system and a Challenge Mode that enables players to earn
rewards to help win the league by boosting player performance,
eliminating red cards, healing injured players, or increasing player
stamina.
EA Mobile recently announced that it is furthering its support for Nokia
N-Gage with an extensive global release schedule for the platform.
Available in time for the holiday season alongside EA SPORTSFIFA
09 is SporeTM Origins, with many
other popular franchises such as Need For SpeedTM
Undercover, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR(R) and The SimsTM
3 arriving in 2009.
For more information on availability, please visit www.eamobile.com.
About EA Mobile
EA Mobile(TM), a division of Electronic Arts, is the world's leading
wireless entertainment publisher with award-winning games such as Tetris(R),
Bejeweled(R), The Sims(TM), and Need For Speed(TM). The EA
Mobile portfolio also includes casual games based on the company's
partnership with Hasbro, Inc. including MONOPOLY, YAHTZEE and
SCRABBLE(in the U.S. and Canada) as well as sports blockbusters from
the EA SPORTS(TM) brand, including Madden NFL Football, EA SPORTS FIFA
Soccer and NASCAR(R). EA Mobile develops games for multiple mobile
platforms including mobile phones, smartphones, the iPhone(TM) and iPod(R).
For more information about EA Mobile, please visit www.eamobile.com.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded
in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular
handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under
four brand names: EA SPORTS(TM), EA(TM), EA SPORTS Freestyle(TM) and POGO(TM). In
fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27
titles that sold more than one million copies. EA's homepage and online
game site is www.ea.com.
More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can
be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
About N-Gage
N-Gage is a made-for-mobile games service available in compatible Nokia
Nseries and other S60 3rd Edition devices from Nokia. N-Gage
makes it easy to find, try, buy, play and manage high-quality mobile
games as well as connect to friends and other players in the N-Gage
Arena, Nokia's mobile gaming community. Nokia is working with the
world's leading publishers to deliver a broad portfolio of games. www.n-gage.com
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We make
a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable
people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging,
games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing our offering
of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise solutions and
software, is a key area of focus. We also provide equipment, solutions
and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, EA Mobile, POGO, Need for Speed,
Spore and The Sims are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Tetris is a
registered trademark of Tetris Holding, LLC. Bejeweled is a registered
trademark of PopCap Games, Inc. John Madden, NFL, FIFA, Tiger Woods, PGA
TOUR and NASCAR are the property of their respective owners and used
with permission. MONOPOLY, YAHTZEE, and SCRABBLE (in the U.S. and
Canada) are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. iPhone,
iPod, iTunes and Mac are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
SOURCE: Electronic Arts Inc.
Weber Shandwick PR for EA Mobile
Guy McGerr, +44 (0)20 7067 0337
gmcgerr@webershandwick.com
or
EA Casual Entertainment
Deborah Coster, +44 (0)1483 463664
dcoster@ea.com
or
For U.S. Media Enquiries:
EA Casual Entertainment
Trudy Muller, 650-628-2926
tmuller@ea.com
or
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