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EA Sports Steps up to the Plate with Launch of World Series Series Superstars Announced
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – April 1, in the year of our Lord
2011 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today
announced the launch of World Series Superstars, a free-to-play
baseball game for Facebook®, that is licensed by MLB Advanced
Media and the MLB Players Association. The game is now playable
in North America by visiting:
apps.facebook.com/worldseriesuperstars.
Leveraging the combined expertise of EA SPORTS™ and Playfish,
World Series Superstars players will build an ultimate team of
professional baseball players, manage the club throughout the
year and compete in games against their friends.
“World Series Superstars will be a compelling new experience for
baseball fans,” said Mike Taramykin, Vice President & General
Manager of the Social and Digital Game Business Unit, EA SPORTS.
“With FIFA Superstars, Madden NFL Superstars, and EA SPORTS PGA
TOUR Golf Challenge, EA SPORTS has pioneered new ways for fans
to connect to the sports they are passionate about on Facebook.
With World Series Superstars, we’re committed to expanding the
social category for sports games and providing baseball fans in
North America with an opportunity to connect to the sport in a
new way.”
Building off the EA SPORTS “Superstars” model that offers the
opportunity to build, manage and compete with an ultimate team
of players, World Series Superstars players will have even more
control of the action and can now make management decisions from
the dugout. Gamers will act as a virtual General Manager and
experience all of the excitement of assembling a team of
professional baseball players, building the ultimate ballpark
and filling it with fans. Gamers can take their all-star squad
on the road and compete in live, interactive simulations going
head-to-head against friends’ ultimate teams in exhibition
games, or by working their way up to Major League mode to play
against all 30 MLB teams and reach the World Series.
“World Series Superstars is the latest great example of EA
SPORTS and Playfish bringing major brands and classically social
experiences to Facebook,” said Katie Mitic, Director of Platform
and Mobile Marketing, Facebook. “We’re pleased to see EA SPORTS
bring the excitement of baseball to the 200 million people who
play games on Facebook, and make it easy for them to share the
experience with their friends.”
World Series Superstars is the fourth EA SPORTS social game for
Facebook, and the third of the EA SPORTS “Superstars” series of
games that have pioneered the free-to-play sports genre on
Facebook. EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars and Madden NFL Superstars
were the first EA SPORTS titles available for play on Facebook
and are the two leading titles in their respective categories.
In addition, EA SPORTS launched EA SPORTS™ PGA TOUR® Golf
Challenge early this year, one of the first live-action 3D
sports games on Facebook.
World Series Superstars can be installed and played now by
visiting Facebook at:
apps.facebook.com/worldseriesuperstars.