EARTH & BEYOND ANNIVERSARY EVENTS SET FOR SEPT. 27

Galactic Birthday Parties In 8 U.S. Cyber Cafés To Feature Dev Team Chats, Giveaways, Birthday Cake

REDWOOD CITY, CA (Sept. 22, 2003) – The Galaxy is gearing up for a star-spanning celebration. Earth & Beyond, the online role-playing galaxy, will be a year old Saturday, Sept. 27. The day will be marked by celebrations across the country at 8 cyber cafes.

The parties are open to all Earth & Beyond players, as well as their family and friends. Admission is free and cake will be served. Visit here http://www.earthandbeyond.ea.com/community/anniversary/index.jsp to RSVP for the event and read the full details.

The first 50 players who RSVP per party location (and come to the celebration) will receive a special commemorative T-shirt (available while supplies last). Computers will be set-up with Earth & Beyond at each location if you need to get your E&B fix, or just want to show something to other players.

The Earth & Beyond 1st Birthday Party will be held from: noon to 3:00p Pacific Time, 1:00p - 4:00p Mountain Time, 2:00p - 5:00p Central Time, and 3:00p - 6:00p Eastern Time.

Here are the locations:

Timezone Location

• Pacific Rivalution (Northern California) 4424 Pearl Ave, San Jose CA (408) 979-0800

• Pacific IceLAN (Southern California) 3580 Temple Ave Ste I, Pomona CA (909) 594-3800

• Pacific Lanwerx Bellevue 707 (Washington) 707 112th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA (425) 281-0900

• Mountain Academy Gaming Center (Colorado) 622 S College Square, Fort Collins, CO (970) 221-4263

• Central The Gaming Center (Texas) 5519 S Hulen, Fort Worth, TX (512) 275-0761

• Central Stoopids - Southgate (Michigan) 15201 Dix - Toledo Rd, Southgate, MI (734) 324-7950

• Eastern E2 Café (Florida) 1421-A SW 107 Ave, Miami, FL (305) 592-8148

• Eastern Web2Zone (New York) 54 Cooper Square, New York, NY (212) 614-7300

Earth & Beyond is an online role-playing game published by Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) under the EA GAMES™ brand. Players become starship pilots and live star-faring lives in a galaxy filled with conflict, riches and discovery. Each monthly game update adds new content to the universe, which could include new missions, sectors, weapons, devices, epic encounters, resource fields, enemies, in-game characters, epic story developments and more.

If you’re not playing Earth & Beyond, you can get a trial version via download or by having a 2-disc set mailed to you for free. Get details at www.enbdemo.com .

Find out more about Earth & Beyond at www.enb.com

ABOUT ELECTRONIC ARTS

Electronic Arts (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts posted revenues of $2.5 billion for fiscal 2003. The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under three brand names: EA SPORTS™, EA GAMES™, and EA SPORTS BIG™. EA's homepage and online game site is 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 .

Electronic Arts, EA GAMES, and Earth & Beyond are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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