Poppit!, EA SPORTS™ FIFA Superstars and Mirror's Edge
2D Lead Slate of EA Games in Chrome Web Store
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today unveiled a slate of titles
that are now available in the Google Chrome Web Store. At a Google
Chrome event, EA showcased its popular gaming destination, Pogo™,
which leveraged the Google Web Toolkit to transform Poppit!™ into
an HTML5 title.
Pogo is already known to millions of monthly active users for its
popular puzzle, word, card, casino and board games. Poppit! is
available today in the Chrome Web Store as a free download. In future
releases of Chrome, Poppit! will be bundled as a default
application with the browser for free.
"Poppit! has never run faster and never looked better," said EA
Chief Operating Officer John Schappert. "With Google's Web Toolkit, we
can supercharge classics like Poppit! into state-of-the-art HTML5
games for this new gaming platform."
In addition to Poppit!, EA announced EA SPORTS™ FIFA
Superstars, Lords of Ultima™, Mirror's Edge™ 2D, and Tiger Woods
PGA TOUR Online are now available in the Chrome Web Store.
"The web has become an incredibly powerful platform for innovation,
allowing users to do much more online than they ever imagined," said
Sundar Pichai, VP of product management for Google Chrome. "The Chrome
Web Store showcases the power of the open web and we're excited to have
several gaming titles from EA as a part of it."
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: EA SPORTS™, EA™, EA Mobile™ and POGO™. In fiscal 2010,
EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.7 billion and had 27 titles that sold
more than one million units. 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, Poppit!, Mirror's Edge and Ultima are
trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. FIFA and Tiger Woods are trademarks
or other intellectual property of their owners and used with permission.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
EA Interactive/Corporate Communications
Holly Rockwood, 650-628-7323
hrockwood@ea.com
Source: Electronic Arts Inc.
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