EA Mobile™, a division of EA’s
Casual Entertainment Label, today announced that many of its most
popular games are now available for smartphones, including BlackBerry®
smartphones, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones. EA Mobile will
distribute a growing slate of smartphone games, including hit titles
like Tetris® and Bejeweled®.
EA Mobile will be demonstrating games at the Symbian booth during
CTIA, located in Hall N4, Number 4855.
"With smartphones becoming everyday devices,
we are excited to offer the fun, and high quality of EA Mobile games to
a growing and important worldwide market,”
said Travis Boatman, Vice President of Worldwide Studios for EA Mobile. "Offering
top titles for the most popular smartphones, and our recent announcement
that we will develop for the iPhone, reflect our focus and commitment to
emerging platforms and markets.” "More people are consuming mobile games than
ever before,” comments Seamus McAteer, Senior
Analyst for M:Metrics. "Last month, 7.5
million people downloaded and played a game on their phone, outnumbering
other mobile activities – like listening to
music and participating in social networks. Smartphone users in
particular are avid consumers of games, with 7.3 percent downloading a
game in the month--more than double the market average.”
EA Mobile has already offered a number of blockbuster franchises for
Symbian OS™, the world’s
market-leading open operating system for smartphones, including: Doom®,
FIFA, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® and The
Sims™. Currently, EA SPORTS FIFA 08
is now available for a number of Symbian smartphones in Europe with more
titles on the way.
"Mobile convergence has arrived and EA Mobile
is taking it by storm by bringing its top-selling branded games to
Symbian OS,” said Jerry Panagrossi, Vice
President and General Manager of North American Operations, Symbian. "With
shipments of Symbian smartphones reaching over 200 million to date and
consistent year-over-year growth, the commercial opportunity for
providing compelling content is clear. We look forward to collaborating
further with EA Mobile on bringing many more leading game titles to
Symbian smartphones around the globe.”
Working with Research in Motion (RIM), EA Mobile has released several
titles for BlackBerry smartphones. Games that are currently available
for the BlackBerry platform include Tetris®,
Bejeweled®, SCRABBLE®
(in North America only), EA SPORTS™ Tiger
Woods PGA TOUR 07, SimCity™ Societies,
and most recently, MONOPOLY HERE & NOW. In addition, EA
Mobile continues to distribute its games on Windows Mobile phones. To
date, titles on the Windows Mobile platform include Downtown Texas
Hold ‘Em, JAMDAT Mahjong, The Sims™
Bowling, and JAMDAT Mini Golf with more titles on the way.
For more information on carrier availability and pricing, please visit www.eamobile.com.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), 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™,
EA™, EA SPORTS BIG™
and POGO™. In fiscal 2007, EA posted revenue
of $3.09 billion and had 24 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 SPORTS BIG, EA Mobile, POGO, The Sims, SimCity and
JAMDAT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc.
in the U.S. and/or other countries. Bejeweled is a registered trademark
of PopCap Games, Inc. DOOM is a registered trademark of Id Software and
is published by Electronic Arts under license. Official FIFA licensed
product. Manufactured under license by Electronic Arts Inc.
The mark "TIGERWOODS" is a trademark of ETW Corp. and may not be used,
in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of ETW Corp. The
name, and other attributes of Tiger Woods are trademarks, copyrighted
designs and/or other forms of intellectual property that are the
exclusive property of ETW Corp. or Tiger Woods and may not be used, in
whole or in part, without the prior written consent of ETW Corp. or
Tiger Woods. PGA TOUR is a trademark of PGA TOUR, INC and used by
permission. HERE & NOW and the MONOPOLY name are trademarks of Hasbro
and are used with permission. SCRABBLE is a trademark of Hasbro in the
United States and Canada and is used with permission. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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