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EA Sports FIFA 08 Unleashes Europe's Biggest Entertainment Launch of the Season


    Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today heralds Europe's biggest
    entertainment launch of the season. EA SPORTS(TM) FIFA 08 continues to
    delight fans with over one million units sold at retail across all
    formats in its first week on European shelves. FIFA 08 is outselling
    every other popular game offering launched in Europe in the same week,
    and remains true to its fame as the world's best selling sports
    franchise.

    "This is just the start of what promises to be the most exciting
    season ever for gamers," said Gerhard Florin, EA Executive Vice
    President for International Publishing. "FIFA 08 kicks off our holiday
    line up, which has more fresh titles than ever before including
    consumer favorites like Need for Speed Pro Street along with original
    properties like Army of Two, EA Playground, Smarty Pants, Rock Band,
    Hellgate London, The Orange Box and Crysis. This year there truly is
    something for everyone."

    FIFA 08 comes to consumers in North America on October 9th.

    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 BIG(TM) and POGO(TM). 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, POGO, Army of Two, EA Playground,
    Need for Speed and Smarty Pant are trademarks or registered trademarks
    of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Official
    FIFA licensed product. Manufactured under license by Electronic Arts
    Inc. Rock Band is a trademark of Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., a
    division of MTV Networks. Crysis is a trademark or registered
    trademark of Crytek GmbH in the U.S and/or other countries.
    Hellgate(TM): London is a trademark and/or registered trademark of
    Flagship Studios, Inc. throughout the world.