REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jul 17, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Action and fantasy explode at EA's
Comic-Con
booth! Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) revealed the titles
that it will showcase at San Diego Comic-Con International from July 23
- 26, 2009. EA's booth can be found in stall #5213 in the San Diego
Convention Center and will feature over a dozen open, playable kiosks of
blockbuster holiday games Brütal Legend(TM), Dante's Inferno(TM), Dead
Space Extraction(TM), G.I. JOE(TM) The Rise of the Cobra(TM), The Saboteur(TM) and
Warhammer(R) Online: Age of Reckoning(R). At the booth, consumers will
also find a signing station for the comic artists behind Army of
Two(TM): The 40th Day, Dead Space Extraction and
Dante's Inferno, as well as a retail corner with unique EA
merchandise for sale (http://www.easpecials.com/).
In addition to the booth at the show, EA will host the 'EA Gaming Lounge
presented by Xbox 360' at the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter Hotel
(401 K Street, San Diego, California 92101) that will run from Thursday
July 23 to Sunday July 26. The 'Gaming Lounge presented by Xbox 360'
will be open from 2pm - 9pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 6/25; 12pm
- 5pm on Sunday. At this all-access venue, show-goers will get hands-on
play with Dragon Age(TM): Origins, Battlefield 1943(TM), Battlefield: Bad
Company(TM) 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 from Valve.
On July 22nd, EA will also host a press-only preview showcase
from 11am - 5pm. Media interested in attending should RSVP to: EAmediaevents@ea.com.
"Games are a powerful force in pop culture and EA's presence at
Comic-Con proves it. The line-up of titles we're bringing to the show
demonstrate best in breed action, adventure and RPG interactive
entertainment," said Mike Quigley, Group Vice President of Marketing,
EA. "Our footprint at Comic-Con is designed to give show-goers hands-on
time with the holiday's hottest titles, and even give non-registered
attendees a chance to get a sneak peek at the 'EA Gaming Lounge
presented by Xbox 360'."
In addition to the games on display at the show, EA's development teams
will be participating in the following panels in the conference program:
Sunday July 26; 3:15-4:15 Army of Two: The 40th Day --
Bridging Video Games with Comics. In this panel Reid Schneider
(Executive Producer - Army of Two) and Alex Hutchinson (Creative
Director - Army of Two) will discuss how they have been working with
comic artists to show players the consequences of their moral choices
throughout the game, and how the in-depth involvement of these artists
in the production of Army of Two changes the feel of the game. Room 6A
Thursday July 23; 12:30-1:30 Dante's Inferno -- Jonathan Knight
(executive producer, EA), Ash Huang (art director), Brandon Auman
(writer), Christos Gage (writer), and Victor Cook (director) talk about
the adaptation of this literary classic into pop culture. They will
discuss how they translated the various aspects of The Divine Comedy
into a video game, an animated feature, and a comic series, where they
were faithful and where they invented, and how each of the mediums
differs. Also get a peak at EA's game in development, and also watch the
world premiere trailer for the animated feature Dante's Inferno
co-produced by EA and Starz Media. Room 8
Friday July 24; 6:00-7:00 Dead Space Extraction -- Chuck Beaver,
Producer from the award-winning game Dead Space and the creator of the
award-winning Dead Space, Ben Templesmith, Dead Space comic illustrator
and Antony Johnston, Dead Space comic writer, will discuss utilizing
interactive gaming medium to portray emotion of story in ways that books
& film traditionally display. Visceral Games executive producer Steve
Papoutsis discusses the implementation of story and talent into games
and the art of crafting a believable, epic story into this fall's Wii
exclusive Dead Space Extraction. Room 2
Saturday July 25; 2:00-3:00 The Saboteur -- Rethinking the WWII
Gaming Genre -- Pandemic Studios(TM) lead designer Tom French and art
director Chris Hunt discuss how historical events served as the
foundation for their upcoming action sandbox game The Saboteur,
who the Saboteur is, and how the innovative combination of game design
and artistic style were employed to develop a unique experience. Room 2
The games on show at the Convention Center and the 'EA Gaming Lounge
presented by Xbox360' are described below. Screenshots and fact sheets
for each game can be found at info.ea.com.
ARMY
OF TWO(TM): THE 40th DAY
The ultimate two-man private military team of Salem and Rios return in ARMY
OF TWO(TM): THE 40th DAY, where they
must fight to survive a carefully orchestrated series of catastrophes
that are dragging the city of Shanghai to the brink of disaster. The gamehas been built from the ground up with a focus on an incredible
cooperative experience. A bigger playbook of features and a new arsenal
of co-op moves are available to both players to perform at any time,
opening up fresh strategies and choices. The result is a bigger, deeper,
more organic and immersive co-op experience that lets players put their
best two-man tactics to use whenever and wherever they want.
Battlefield:
Bad Company(TM) 2
Specializing in online vehicle warfare since 1942 -- In Battlefield:
Bad Company 2, DICE brings its best-in-class onlinevehicle
warfare to a spectacular new level. By pushing destruction to new
heights and delivering a host of land, sea and air vehicles, players
will experience all-out-warfare like never before. Whether its intense
battles online or in the single player campaign, players must use every
weapon and vehicle at their disposal to survive and conquer. This
unprecedented action unfolds on the battlefield to bring a new level of
excitement to vehicular warfare never before experienced in a modern
warfare action game.
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Platforms - Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 and PC
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Ship Date - Q1 2010 (calendar year)
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ESRB Rating - Rating Pending
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Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2
Battlefield
1943(TM)
Battlefield 1943 is a critically acclaimed download-only game
that delivers endless hours of 24-player First-Person Shooter action on
popular maps inspired by Battlefield 1942(TM). The game will have
players battling over four tropic locations: Wake Island, Guadalcanal,
Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. These maps have now been updated with the DICE
Frostbite(TM) engine, providing destructibility to the Battlefield and
leaving players with almost nowhere to hide. Gamers will have the
freedom to compete by land, air and sea as either the US Marines or the
Imperial Japanese Navy. Whether they choose to play the role of a
rifleman crawling through the trenches, a steel-fisted tank commander,
or a dog fighting ace pilot, gamers will have the power to rule the
Battlefield.
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Platforms - Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 and PC
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Ship Date - Download Now on Xbox LIVE(TM) Marketplace and
PlayStation(R)Network
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ESRB Rating - T for Teen
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Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/OfficialBF1943
Brütal
Legend(TM)
From the mind of Tim Schafer and Double Fine Productions comes Brütal
Legend, a 3rd person action game starring Jack Black as
the ultimate roadie Eddie Riggs. Rich in combat, imagery and
storytelling, Brütal Legenddelivers lighter-flicking fun
sure to melt your face off.
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Platforms - PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360
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Ship date - Rocktober 13th in North America, Rocktober 16th
in the UK and Europe
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ESRB - Rating Pending
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Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/brutallegend
Dante's
Inferno(TM)
From Visceral Games, award-winning creators of last year's
critically-acclaimed Dead Space(TM), comes one of 2010's most highly
anticipated 3rd person action adventure games, Dante's
Inferno. Based on part one of Dante Alighierei's classic poem "The
Divine Comedy," EA's Dante's Inferno takes gamers on an epic
adventure through Dante's nine circles of hell - limbo, lust, gluttony,
greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. The game features a
highly responsive, addictive combat system, which players will need to
take Dante through a gauntlet of unimaginable evils as he fights to
recapture the soul of his beloved Beatrice.
Dead
Space(TM) Extraction
From Visceral Games comes Dead Space Extraction, the thrilling
prequel to last fall's award-winning Dead Space, built from the
ground up exclusively for the Wii. In Dead Space Extraction,
gamers will experience the panic before the terror through the eyes of a
handful of space colonists desperately struggling to escape from a
horrific infection on the Aegis VII mining colony. The game introduces
Lexine, a new heroine in the Dead Space universe, and it quickly
becomes clear that protecting her may be the crew's only hope for
survival in one of the most cinematic action-horror game experiences
ever made for the Wii.
Dragon
Age(TM): Origins
Award-winning RPG developer, BioWare(TM) invites players to experience
their deepest RPG to date. For thousands of years, the Grey Wardens have
been the guardians of the land. Now with an ancient evil on the rise
again, it is up to players to unite the shattered lands and slay the
corrupted dragon known as the Archdemon. In Dragon Age: Origins,
players must make ruthless decisions and be willing to sacrifice their
friends and loved ones for the greater good of mankind.
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Platforms - PC, Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3
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Ship Date - October 20, 2009 (North America), October 23, 2009 (Europe)
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ESRB - Rating Pending
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Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/dragonage
G.I.
JOE(TM) The Rise of Cobra(TM)
G.I. JOE The Rise of Cobra for all major video game consoles
features an exclusive storyline that picks up where the live-action
movie, from Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in
association with Hasbro, leaves off, allowing players to re-create and
re-live the greatest moments from the film, cartoon series and action
figure toy line. The game offers 16 playable characters - four of which
are unlockable COBRA characters - each with unique abilities and
weapons. Adding to the adrenaline rush is an intense single-screen co-op
mode allowing two players to easily unite as a team in a classic
struggle between good and evil to defeat the powers of COBRA.
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Platforms - Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo
DS(TM) and mobile devices
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Ship Date - August 2009
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ESRB Rating - E10+ for Nintendo DS; T for console and PSP
Left
4 Dead 2
Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 is the sequel to the best-selling, critically
acclaimed co-operative multiplayer smash hit, Left 4 Dead. Set at
roughly the same time as the original Left 4 Dead, players assume the
role of 4 new "Survivors" as they are lead through the southeastern
region of the US - from Savannah, Georgia thru the bayou country, and
climaxing in New Orleans' French Quarter. Introducing melee weapons, new
zombies and advanced technology -- such as the AI Director 2.0, which
procedurally changes weather effects, world objects and pathways, in
addition to tailoring the experience to match the players' performance
-- Left 4 Dead 2 promises to be one of the top game releases of 2009.
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Platforms: Xbox 360 and PC
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Release: 11/17/09
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ESRB - RP
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For more info please visit www.l4d.com
The
Saboteur(TM)
Fight, climb, and race your way through a uniquely stylized version of
Nazi-occupied France in Pandemic Studios upcoming action sandbox game The
Saboteur. Meet Sean Devlin, the daredevil hero of The Saboteur
- a street-tough Irish racecar driver turned resistance fighter in 1940s
Paris, where the women are sexy and the action is epic.
Warhammer(R)
Online: Age of Reckoning(R)
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning features revolutionary Realm
vs. Realm conflict that will provide players with an engaging
battleground for years to come. Available now for PC, WAR is
rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB. For more information about the game and
to download the 10-day free trial, visit www.warhammeronline.com.
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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 Mobile TM
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.
More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can
be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA Mobile, POGO, Dead Space, Dante's Inferno, Saboteur,
Realm vs Realm, Army of Two ,Visceral Games and Pandemic Studios are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S.
and/or other countries. Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield 1943,
Battlefield 1942 and Frostbite are a trademarks or registered trademarks
of EA Digital Illusions CE AB in the U.S. and/or other countries. Dragon
Age and BioWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of EA
International (Studio and Publishing) Ltd. in the U.S. and/or other
countries. Brütal Legend is a trademark of DoubleFine Productions, Inc.
Warhammer and Age of Reckoning are registered trademarks of Games
Workshop Ltd. GI JOE and The Rise of the Cobra are a trademarks of
Hasbro and are used with permission. "PLAYSTATION", "PlayStation" and
"PSP are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Wii
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