Europe
: Electronic Arts, the world's leading interactive entertainment software
company, and Vodafone, the world's largest mobile community, today
announced a mobile gaming agreement to bring EA's leading game franchises
to Vodafone live! mobile phone customers throughout Europe, Egypt,
South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
The line up of mobile games
for Vodafone live! customers to download will include popular EA titles
starting with EA SPORTS TM FIFA 06 Mobile this Autumn, which will
be jointly promoted by Vodafone and EA. Other games, including The
Sims TM 2 and Need for Speed TM Most Wanted will rapidly follow, both
created specifically for the mobile platform. Electronic Arts will
launch between 15-20 mobile games in Europe by the end of 2006.
"Mobile gaming has
always been one of our core multimedia services and its appeal continues
to grow amongst our customers", said Graeme Ferguson, Vodafone's
Director of Global Content Development. "When EA entered the
mobile arena, it signified a new level of maturity for the market,
and we look forward to working closely with them to deliver an unrivalled
content and service proposition for our customers."
"Our partnership with
Vodafone is an important milestone as EA pursues its strategy in the
mobile gaming space," said Frank Sagnier, Vice President Mobile
Gaming Europe. "We're pleased to team up with Vodafone to bring
more mobile gaming experiences to consumers."
Through the partnership,
Vodafone's vast global customer base will be able to download games
for compelling gaming experiences while on the move, bringing together
Vodafone's services and audience reach with the advanced graphics
and quality game play from EA. The service will be available to Vodafone
live! customers for downloading in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal,
Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and the UK.