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Electronic Arts Signs Seven Soccer Stars for Cover of "FIFA 07"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 11, 2006 - 12:31pm.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts announced on Friday that it has signed seven international soccer stars to serve as cover athletes for various regional editions of its "FIFA 07" game.

Electronic Arts Details Development of "FIFA 07," "Medal of Honor: Heroes"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 4, 2006 - 12:10pm.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts on Friday announced that it will release "FIFA 07" in North America on Oct. 3. Developed by EA Canada, the game will be offered for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, Game Boy Advanced, PSP, the PC and mobile phones. Separately, EA announced plans to publish "Medal of Honor: Heroes" for the Sony PSP, its first title from the franchise for the handheld. Developed by EA Canada in conjunction with EA Los Angeles, the game is slated to ship in the fall of 2006.

EA's "FIFA Online" Soccer Game Breaks Concurrent User Record in Korea

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 28, 2006 - 7:51pm.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts announced on Wednesday that its "FIFA Online" soccer game has broken the record in Korea for the greatest number of peak concurrent users in its opening month.

2006 FIFA World Cup Video Sites

Authored by Robert Spears on June 15, 2006 - 9:26am.

Here are links to the major sites providing free and live online video coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. This was put together by our new intern Joakim Baage.

Electronic Arts Ships "2006 FIFA World Cup" to Retailers

Authored by dmw on May 1, 2006 - 6:53pm.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts on Monday shipped its "2006 FIFA World Cup" title for PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and mobile phones. Redwood City, Calif.-based EA also announced that it has extended its video game partnership with the international soccer federation through 2014.

Yahoo Teams with FIFA to Re-Launch Official 2006 World Cup Site

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 5, 2005 - 9:57am.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - With the final draw for the event scheduled for Friday, Yahoo said that it has teamed with FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, to re-launch FIFAworldcup.com, the official site of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The site will provide coverage of both Friday's draw and the tournament's 64 matches, as well as vintage video highlights and information about Germany and the specific host cities. In addition, the site this week added three new language versions this week -- Portuguese, Italian and Korean -- and is now available in a total of seven languages. In 2001, Yahoo and FIFA entered into an exclusive, multi-year deal to jointly produce, market and operate the official World Cup web site. The deal also included the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan.

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Microsoft, Electronic Arts to Host "FIFA Interactive World Cup"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 19, 2004 - 2:19am.

Leipzig, Germany -- Microsoft and game developer Electronic Arts announced on Thursday that they have partnered with international soccer federation FIFA to develop a "World Cup" video game tournament for players of Electronic Arts' "FIFA Football 2005" for the Xbox. The FIFA Interactive World Cup will be comprised of a three-month tournament featuring both offline and online play on six continents, with the finals to be played in Zurich in December. Microsoft also announced that it will serve as the officially licensed video game console of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Germany.

tags: Microsoft | World Cup | FIFA | Electronic Arts |