Redwood City, Calif. – Tuesday, June 23, 2009 –
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS)
announced today that Blake Griffin, former Oklahoma Sooner and the projected top
pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, will be the new face of EA SPORTS™
NCAA Basketball 10. Griffin has an explosive presence, exciting college
stadiums with massive dunks, huge blocks, and aggressive rebounds, and was a
natural choice to represent the college game as cover athlete for NCAA
Basketball 10. Griffin is the consensus national Player of the Year, winning
the Big 12, Associated Press, Naismith, Sporting News, and John Wooden Player of
the Year awards, and led his team to an Elite Eight appearance in the 2009 March
Madness Tournament, where they lost to eventual champions, UNC. The 2009 NBA
Draft is presented by EA SPORTS.
“Seeing myself on the cover of NCAA Basketball 10 is such a great tribute
to my time at Oklahoma,” said Griffin. “I loved playing in front of passionate
fans and competing against some of the best schools in the country. Now I am
looking forward to competing at the next level against the best players in the
world.”
NCAA Basketball 10
brings the emotion, intensity, and spirit of college basketball by
capturing every detail in the stadium, from cheerleaders and mascots to wild
crowds and real NCAA Basketball announcers. NCAA Basketball 10 builds on
a new game engine introduced last year, refining and improving core gameplay
functions, and adding more depth to the popular ‘styles of play’ and ‘set your
tempo’ features, making NCAA Basketball 10 a strategic and entirely
unique basketball gameplay experience.
NCAA Basketball 10,
which is licensed by The Collegiate
Licensing Company, is currently in development under the EA SPORTS brand by EA
Canada in Vancouver, B.C., and will be available in North America this holiday
season. The game will be available for the
PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and Xbox 360® video game and
entertainment system from Microsoft. The game is not yet rated by the ESRB. For
more information, log onto http://beta.easports.com. Media can find screenshots
and pack art of the game at
http://info.ea.com.
EA SPORTS™
is the leading interactive sports software brand in the world, with top-selling
titles and franchises including Madden NFL Football, FIFA Soccer,
NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, NCAA®
Football and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR®.
