EA Announces Ultima Online: Samurai Empire

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2004--Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company, today announced that the next expansion pack for Ultima Online[sup]™[/sup] will be called Ultima Online: Samurai Empire. The highly-anticipated expansion pack marks a new era in the celebrated massively multiplayer online game by setting the adventure in an exotic Japanese-inspired land, and by featuring two deadly new professions for players to master -- the Samurai and the Ninja. Ultima Online: Samurai Empire will be distributed by EA under the EA GAMES[sup]™[/sup] brand and is scheduled to ship November 2004.