WESTWOOD TO PARTNER WITH IGAMES FOR EARTH & BEYOND GALACTIC RALLY
10 game centers
around the country to compete for
prizes
LAS VEGAS
(Sept. 16, 2002) – Westwood
Studios(tm) announced today it’s teamed with iGames(tm), a national organization
of PC game centers, to hold an Earth &
Beyond(tm) Galactic Rally between 10 of its centers nationwide
Saturday, Sep. 21.
Earth & Beyond,
the first online role-playing galaxy, will be
published by Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) under the EA GAMES(tm) brand Sept.
24.
The Galactic Rally
is a race through the Earth &
Beyond galaxy in the style of a classic
car race. Ten iGames centers around the country will compete for a chance to
win an Earth & Beyond
launch party at their iGames location. Contestants will be given clues and must
travel to checkpoints in different sectors in the game, bringing and retrieving
in-game items to the checkpoint attendants.
Each center must
work as a team to be eligible to win the Galactic Rally. The first center’s
team to finish will win the Earth & Beyond
launch party. Westwood will provide the winning center food, drinks, a chance
to meet the game’s designers, and free copies of
Earth & Beyond, signed by the
development team.
The iGames centers
that will be participating in the galactic rally are:
-
Cyber Conxion
– Wayne, NJ -
Icelan
– Pomona, CA -
UConnect
– Vernon Hills, IL -
Net Heads – Indianapolis, IN
-
E2 Café – Miami, FL
-
EnZone
– San Francisco, CA -
The Gaming Center – Irving, TX
-
NeoQuest
Games – Lansdale, PA -
Head 2 Head Games – London, ON
-
Strike Net – Tulsa, OK
Anyone interested
in competing in the Earth & Beyond Galactic Rally can
sign up at the official iGames website at
http://www.igames.org/Events.asp?Event=729.
Westwood is
currently conducting a beta test of Earth &
Beyond with thousands of people playing every day. Players still
have time to join the beta test by downloading the software for free from
GameSpy.com at
www.FilePlanet.com, or at the official
Earth & Beyond website at
www.earthandbeyond.com.
In addition, until
Sept. 18th, anyone who pre-purchase the retail version of
Earth & Beyond at Electronics
Boutique,
www.ebgames.com, GameStop, or
www.gamestop.com, will receive an Earth & Beyond beta test disc, and will be
included in the Founders’ Federation.
In
Earth & Beyond, players become
captains of their own starships and live futuristic galactic adventures as they
explore, trade and fight with thousands of others.
In addition, because this is a living, dynamic universe, players will face new
challenges over time as the developers add sectors, planets, missions, monsters,
characters, features, evolving plot lines and more.
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ABOUT WESTWOOD
STUDIOS
Westwood Studios is a
prominent publisher of best-selling PC and next-generation console games.
Formed in 1985, Westwood is the creator of the 15-million + selling Command
& ConquerTM
franchise that includes Command & Conquer, Tiberian
SunTM, Red
AlertTM
1 and 2, and Command & Conquer Renegade(tm).
Westwood has also released award-winning titles such as
Blade RunnerTM,
Monopoly®, and
the Lands of LoreTM
series. Looking forward, Westwood is expanding to new franchises and genres
with upcoming titles such as Earth & Beyond.
More information can be found at the company’s
official website at
http://www.westwood.ea.com.
ABOUT ELECTRONIC ARTS
Electronic Arts, headquartered in
Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment
software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts posted revenues of more than
$1.7 billion for fiscal 2002. The company develops, publishes and distributes
software worldwide for the Internet, personal computers and video game systems.
EA markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS(tm),
EA GAMES(tm), EA SPORTS BIG(tm)
and EA.COMSM. More information about EA’s
products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at
http://info.ea.com.
ABOUT IGAMES
iGames is
an organization of independent and franchised game centers working together to
prosper as a whole. By working as a group, game centers are able to attain
larger discounts, create better events and make a much larger impact on the
games industry. Some of the products and programs facilitated and/or developed
by iGames include software licensing, hardware discounts, exclusive game
previews / demos, classes, game launch events, tournaments, leagues and WAN
parties. iGames has established strong relationships
with a broad group of industry leaders in order to provide a wide variety of
products, services and programs to member game centers and gamers. More
information can be obtained at
www.igames.org.
Electronic Arts, Westwood Studios, Earth &
Beyond, Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer Renegade,
Tiberian Sun, Red Alert, Lands of Lore, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS BIG and EA
GAMES are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the
United States and/or other countries. EA.COM is a service mark of EA.com Inc.
All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
