MVP 06 NCAA Baseball has Shipped to Retail

January 18, 2006

PING! EA’s MVP 06
NCAA BASEBALL SHIPS TO STORES TODAY
 

EA’s Newest Baseball Game
Franchise Heads Out on the “Road to Omaha”

Electronic Arts
(NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that MVP™
06 NCAA® Baseball, the first-ever college baseball videogame, has
shipped to retailers under the EA SPORTS^™ brand. Produced by EA
Canada in Vancouver, B.C., MVP 06 NCAA
Baseball is the latest offering from the makers of the critically
acclaimed MVP Baseball™ franchise and celebrates everything that makes
NCAA® baseball unique – aluminum bats, dugout clearing homeruns,
relentless hustle and stadiums filled with passionate fans and school spirit.

From the same
developers that have made the MVP franchise a hit,
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball has an
 all-new Load and Fire Batting system that intuitively emulates stepping up to
the plate. The game is the first EA SPORTS game to implement ESPN real-time
features including an ESPN ticker and live ESPN Sportscenter radio updates.
With 128 of the nation’s top teams, 19 authentic stadiums and a deep
college-specific Dynasty Mode™, users can now slug it out on the “Road to
Omaha®” with baseball’s brightest young stars.

“Playing to earn
a National Championship for the University of Texas was one of the greatest
moments of my life; Needless to say, I’m still really nostalgic about it and
this is a great way for me to re-live it again and again,” said David Maroul,
2005 College World Series MVP and MVP 06
NCAA Baseball Cover Athlete. “I’ve been waiting for a game like
this to come out for a long time. I just can’t believe how realistic the game
is.”

Complete with an
engaging visual presentation and ESPN’s Mike Patrick and former Stanford
All-American Kyle Peterson calling the action,
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball also features
an all-new Custom Ballpark feature, a rich Create-a-Player option and new
online* features for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Xbox
Live®.

MVP 06 NCAA Baseball,
which joins NCAA® Football and
NCAA® March Madness® in the EA
SPORTS™ family of popular NCAA-licensed properties, is
available on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox®
video game system from Microsoft.  The game is rated "E" (Everyone) by
the ESRB with a MSRP of $29.99.The official game website is


www.mvp06ncaabaseball.com.