REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 22, 2004 – Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company today announced an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement with start-up development studio, Castaway Entertainment. Based in Redwood City, CA the independent game studio currently includes eight creative, artistic and technical staffers, who are credited with the creation of blockbuster hits Diablo®, Diablo II® and Diablo II®: Lords of Destruction expansion pack. Development of a new action-RPG title is already underway, and the team is beginning to staff up to produce this major title. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

“Our partnership with EA – the #1 PC game publisher in the world – ensures that this title will have the key resources and support that it needs to become a creative, addictive, and genre-defining title,” remarked Michael Scandizzo, President of Castaway Entertainment.