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EA Ships Family Game Night 4 The Game Show
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – November 1, in the year of our
Lord 2011 – Lights! Camera! Action! The EA™ Interactive
Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the
launch of FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show, giving families
the ability to recreate the larger-than-life fun of the popular
Hub Network’s FAMILY GAME NIGHT television game show in their
own living rooms. The newest version of the award-winning video
game series delivers five exciting Hasbro games, including: BOP
IT! Boptagon, SCRABBLE Flash, CONNECT 4 Basketball, SORRY!
Sliders and YATZHEE! Bowling. FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show
is now available for the Wii™, Xbox 360® videogame and
entertainment system, and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment
system. It also supports Kinect™ for Xbox 360 and PlayStation®
Move.
“FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show brings the excitement of a
TV game show to living rooms and lets families interact with
their favorite Hasbro games as they never have before,” said
Chip Lange, General Manager and Senior Vice President of EA’s
Hasbro Division. “With new twists and gameplay designed to take
advantage of Kinect, Move and Nintendo Wii MotionPlus controls,
FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show will have players doing
everything from bowling and shooting baskets to high-fiving as
they compete for the big win.”
FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show adds up to non-stop fun for
family and friends as they experience new ways to play five
well-known games, inspired by The Hub television series. In BOP
IT! Boptagon opponents need to stay on beat and quickly
replicate a sequence of unique verbs shouted at them. In
SCRABBLE Flash, a nimble mind is needed to rearrange five tiles
to create as many words as possible while racing against the
clock. Strategy blended with basketball action comes into play
in CONNECT 4 Basketball as players must shoot balls into the
CONNECT 4 grid to be the first to get four in a row for the win!
Tight teamwork is called upon in SORRY! Sliders as players push
huge game pieces into the bulls-eye, while the perfect alleyway
approach and ball release is the winning combination in
YAHTZHEE! Bowling.
“EA has a stellar track record of creating intensely fun and
fresh compilations of Hasbro game brands that bring families and
friends together for hours of entertainment,” said Mark Blecher,
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Media and
Marketing at Hasbro. “The introduction of the game show element
in FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show will take this innovative
series to a new level of play that fans will rally around in a
big way this holiday season.”
Separately, EA also has three family-oriented Hasbro-branded
bundles hitting shelves just in time for the holidays, including
TRIVIAL PURSUIT Bet You Know It, MONOPOLY Collection, and the
HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT Fun Pack. TRIVIAL PURSUIT Bet You Know
It features both the wager-based TRIVIAL PURSUIT Bet You Know It
and original TRIVIAL PURSUIT game modes on one disc and
thousands of all-new questions based on recent current events.
The MONOPOLY Collection includes the original version of
MONOPOLY and MONOPOLY Streets and tons of extra MONOPOLY content
including the new Stratosphere City game board and the ability
to play as MR. POTATO HEAD or MRS. POTATO HEAD. HASBRO FAMILY
GAME NIGHT Fun Pack delivers ten digital versions of popular
Hasbro games from HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 2 & 3 such as
OPERATION, CLUE, THE GAME OF LIFE, and TWISTER, all in one
value-priced package.
FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show carries a rating of “E” for
Everyone and is priced at $39.99 (MSRP). TRIVIAL PURSUIT Bet You
Know It and the MONOPOLY Collection are priced at $39.99 (MSRP)
and available for the Wii. HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT Fun Pack is
priced at $49.99 (MSRP) and available for the Wii and Xbox 360.
MONOPOLY Collection and HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT Fun Pack are
rated “E” for Everyone and TRIVIAL PURSUIT Bet You Know It is
rated “T” for Teen.