Extend Your Paradise on June 11 for $12.99
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jun 08, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Criterion Games, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) studio today
announced that the Burnout(TM) Paradise Big Surf Island expansion
pack will be available to download for $12.99 on the PLAYSTATION(R)Network
and Xbox LIVE(R) Marketplace (1000 MS Points) on June 11 Worldwide.
Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island is a brand new playground that
enhances and expands the amazing world of the award-winning driving
game, Burnout Paradise. Highlights include fun challenges and
events for groups of friends to play online, an exciting new world to
discover, the biggest and wildest jumps yet, plus a set of nine new
vehicles to experience it all in.
Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island also features an Island specific
driver's license for single player progression, challenging players to
explore the World, find secret areas and experience a host of new events
and challenges.
"Big Surf Island is the most fun players can have in Burnout Paradise
and provides incredible value for money," says Pete Lake, the Big Surf
Island Producer at Criterion Games. "We listened to our community and
built this massive new playground for them, taking everything they loved
about the game and using it to make the Island as much fun as possible.
Big Surf Island is packed full of action, everything is bigger and
better, from the jumps, to the challenges, to the fun you'll have
playing there."
Developed at Criterion Games in Guildford, England, Burnout Paradise has
won over 55 awards worldwide and is available now for $19.99 on
PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360(R) video game and
entertainment system. The game has been rated E10+ by the ESRB and 7+
for PEGI.
For more information about the game, please go to http://www.criteriongames.com
or http://info.ea.com.
Or follow us on Twitter at, http://twitter.com/criteriongames.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in
1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless
devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under
four brand names: EATM, EA SPORTSTM, EA MobileTM
and POGOTM. In fiscal 2009, EA posted GAAP net revenue of
$4.2 billion and had 31 titles that sold more than one million copies.
EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com.
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SOURCE: Electronic Arts Inc.
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