Throw, grab, and blast your way through the must-have Wii game for
Summer 2008! The EA Casual Entertainment Label (NASDAQ: ERTS) today
announced that
Boom Blox,
the first game released in collaboration between EA and director and
producer Steven Spielberg, has shipped in North America and will be
available May 8 in Europe, May 13 across Asia, and May 22 in Japan for
Wii. Perfect for kids 8-12 years old and fun for the entire family,
Boom Blox offers action-packed destruction that takes Wii play to a new
level of enjoyment and creativity. Boom Blox is also available across
major carriers for the mobile phone.
"Boom Blox was designed to be interactive, pure escapism, and fun for
kids of all ages," said Steven Spielberg. "My hope is that it will be a
great shared family experience."
In this high-energy game, players make their way through almost four
hundred levels of strategic destruction! Kids and families will destroy
their way through brain-twisting challenges with single player, co-op,
and versus multiplayer options with no clean up required.
Joined by a cast of more than thirty wacky characters with distinct
personalities and behaviors, players will be entertained by Marion
"Fluffy" McCluck, the bomb blox-laying chicken and Boots Beaverton, who
likes to make the bomb blox explode. These fun characters bring
personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed worlds.
Equipped with an easy-to-use in-game editor, Boom Blox allows kids to
express their creativity by building and bringing to life their very
own levels in Create Mode. Players can even remix any existing levels
in the game in this unique mode using any props, blocks, or characters
that have been unlocked throughout the game. Plus, their designs can
then be shared with friends or used to challenge others to solve their
newly created puzzle via WiiConnect24.
"As we developed Boom Blox, we realized that the possibilities with the
puzzles were endless," explains Louis Castle, Executive Producer. "We
wanted to extend that element of wonder and discovery to players and
even give them the chance to share those puzzles with their friends. We
feel we've reached a new level of creative and immersive game play with
the uniqueness of the Wii system and are looking forward to seeing what
kids create."
Developed at EA Los Angeles under the EA Casual Entertainment Label,
Boom Blox is rated 'E' for Everyone by the ESRB, 3+ by PEGI, and 6+ by
the USK, and has a US MSRP of $49.99. For more information or to
download artwork, visit http://www.BOOMBLOX.ea.com.
Boom Blox is also available for mobile phones where players will slide
on ice blocks, blast blocks with bombs, and bounce off springs to solve
brain-twisting puzzles and level the playing field. Enjoying non-stop
fun on their phones, players will advance up to forty levels to reach a
target score. Once the in-game puzzles are mastered, the game will then
expand to a vast, new arena. Custom creations can then be posted online
directly from a mobile phone. Players can challenge a global community
with their dynamic puzzles, and rate other players' works. For
information regarding mobile phone carrier availability, visit
http://www.eamobile.com.
About EA and Steven Spielberg Collaboration
In 2005, EA and Steven Spielberg entered a multi-year collaboration
that would generate three new original franchise properties. EA owns
the intellectual properties and the franchises will be developed,
published, and distributed worldwide by EA. Spielberg has been working
directly with the EA development teams at the EALA studio in Playa
Vista to offer his signature style of storytelling to the concept,
design, and artistic vision of the unique games.
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, 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.