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EA Expands Its Pogo.com and Club Pogo Online Game Websites with New Games Business
Published: 2005-03-16
 EA Expands Its Pogo.com and Club Pogo Online Game Websites with New Games
Business Wire, March 16, 2005
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced the March launch of four new games on its Pogo.com(TM) (free) and Club Pogo(TM) (subscription) online game sites. This highly-anticipated launch will include the extremely addicting new version of Poppit!(TM), the multi-player bingo-scratcher game of Lottso!, and two new adventurous card games, 6th Street Omaha Poker and Casino Island Blackjack. In an effort to provide devoted fans with new and unique entertainment, EA continuously adds new and exciting content to the popular Pogo.com and Club Pogo sites, including games, challenges and additional opportunities to win cash and prizes. (Rules for drawings can be found on http://play.pogo.com/prize/ p-rules.jsp?site=pogop&lkey=Qi17Xx_okSxMzmNdCmb30QAAKDw. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.))
March releases on Pogo.com:
--Poppit! -- Popping mayhem has never been so much fun! Released in April 2000, Poppit! is considered by many to be the flagship game of Pogo.com. Spike, the game's "host," is easily the most recognizable figure in the Pogo.com stable of characters. This enhanced version will feature new hand drawn style graphics, an updated engine, new power-ups and Bonuses, improved character animations, new jackpot spin mechanics and new backgrounds and themes. Get ready to pop till you drop!
--6th Street Omaha Poker -- Get ready for an old-school poker showdown! 6th Street Omaha Poker is a 6-player game similar to Texas Hold' Em, but with a slightly different set of rules. Each player is dealt 5 cards, only 2 of which they will use to create their final hand. The other 3 cards are borrowed from the 5 community cards that come into play. The Pogo.com "twist" is that players have the option to use a 6th community card (aka, 6th St.) that gives them an additional chance to improve their hand.
March releases on Club Pogo:
--Lottso! -- The fast-paced excitement of Bingo meets the big payouts of everyone's favorite lottery scratchers. All eyes are on the Lottso! balls as up to 20 players fill sets of Lottso! cards to score big points. There are over a dozen different Lottso! cards in the game, and players can work by themselves or team up with other players to score big Bonus points for even bigger token payouts!
--Casino Island Blackjack -- Being on a "hot streak" has never been more explosive! Take a seat at a multi-player blackjack table in a tropical setting with tons of island rewards to earn and a volcano of fire to light up player winning streaks. It's the player against the house, with a table full of other Club Pogo players to keep them company. Hit "21" and watch out for fireworks!
These games will join other recent additions to Pogo.com and Club Pogo. Recent Pogo.com games include Rainy Day Spider Solitaire, a new twist on the classic game Spider Solitaire; Panda Pai Gow Poker, a casino-style game where players create two winning hands from a set of seven cards; and Command & Conquer(TM) Armored Attack, a tank combat game based on the popular Command & Conquer franchise. Recent Club Pogo games added to the site include: Aces Up!, a high-flying adventure card game where players earn flying aces and use them to shoot down enemy cards; Jigsaw Detective, a story-driven jigsaw puzzle game featuring a compelling new story each month; and Pinochle, a jazzy 4-player card game of bids, melds and trumps.
Pogo.com is one of the leading online game destinations featuring 70+ classic card, board, trivia, arcade, game show, puzzle and word games. The site draws approximately 12 million unique monthly visitors (approximately 3.3 million unique daily visitors), who have transformed the Pogo.com community into a dynamic and active community that chats with each other, meets new friends and life partners, stays in touch with family and friends, and plays familiar and popular games. Growing out of the enormous popularity of Pogo.com is the EA online subscription site Club Pogo, a premium online game service featuring a variety of features, including exclusive games with enhanced graphics, sound and player features, and no ad interruptions.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for videogame systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under three brand names: EA SPORTS(TM), EA GAMES(TM) and EA SPORTS BIG(TM). In fiscal 2004, EA posted revenues of $2.96 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
Electronic Arts, EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS BIG, EA GAMES, Command & Conquer, Pogo, Pogo.com and Club Pogo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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Pokertropolis.com Drops a Bombshell on LA Fashion Week at the Geffen Contemporary for Gen Art's
Published: 2005-03-16
 Pokertropolis.com Drops a Bombshell on LA Fashion Week at the Geffen Contemporary for Gen Art's ``New Garde'' Event
Business Wire, March 16, 2005
LOS ANGELES -- Pokertropolis sent its Bombshell models to the Gen Art and Acura event at the Geffen Contemporary Museum of Modern Art, and they spent the entire night making an impact among the gala attendees.
Held in downtown Los Angeles at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary Museum, the Gen Art and Acura event was billed as one of the hottest and most innovative red carpet events during LA Fashion Week, featuring "New Garde" designs from LA's best designers and live model installations from Australia's bytinaxxx.
Sponsored by online poker site Pokertropolis.com, the Bombshell models -- who include "a pair" of twins -- are professionally trained to be the best at the most popular sport you can play sitting down: Texas Hold 'em. The girls wore matching pink and white outfits that featured tank tops with the line "Play With Me" -- an invitation to play poker with any of the models online. They were taped and photographed all the way down the winding red carpet and into the venue, where they spent the evening being photographed, doing some modeling of their own, talking to attendees, and passing out their digital trading cards. Bombshell model Tara Rice, commenting on the packed event, said, "I really like this museum, the fashions are something special, and what's not to love about a full house?"
Pokertropolis.com, a site for both established and novice players, presents users with a visually compelling metropolitan interface, providing the look and feel of a real brick-and-mortar casino on one's own home computer. The site offers online poker and features innovations like low industry rakes and $0.99 tournaments with $200 guaranteed prize pools. It also has a "private rooms" feature that lets players hold closed-session, personal games with friends.
You can find out more about -- and even speak to -- the Bombshell models at www.bombshellmodels.net.
To find out more about Pokertropolis, or even play a hand, check out www.pokertropolis.com, or contact Giovanni Elmore at 323-658-8531 or gio@emg-la.com.
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