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5-5-07 Del Ray
EA and Del Rey Announce Novel Based on Popular Command & Conquer Game Series
Gaming Universe Expands to New Forms of Media
LOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)-- Apr. 26, 2007 Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) and
Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group,
announced today that Del Rey will publish a novel based on the
critically-acclaimed Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars(TM) computer and
videogame on May 29, 2007 in the US and Canada. The novel will release in the
U.K. and Germany in the months following. The game is available now for the PC
and will be in stores May 10, 2007 for the Xbox 360(TM) videogame and
entertainment system.
In COMMAND & CONQUER: TIBERIUM WARS(TM), the novel by Keith R. A. DeCandido, the
year is 2047 and the stakes could not be higher. Tiberium--a self-replicating
alien substance that has infected the Earth--is spreading like a radioactive ice
age. The Global Defense Initiative, a high-tech alliance of the world's most
advanced nations, is fighting to contain Tiberium, but Kane, the megalomaniacal
leader of the Brotherhood of Nod has other plans for Earth. Kane's secret
society turned superpower is bent on using Tiberium to take control and
transform humanity into his twisted vision of the future. In the midst of
battles throughout the world, a third alien race emerges, and all-out war rages
over Tiberium. The fate of the planet rests in the balance.
"We're excited to expand the Command & Conquer franchise to a new form of media
and offer a depth to the underlying fiction of the game series like never
before," said Patrick O'Brien, VP of Business Affairs at EA. "Keith DeCandido
wrote a great story, and we're pleased to have partnered with him and Del Rey."
Del Rey editor Keith Clayton said, "Command & Conquer remains one of the most
popular and well-reviewed gaming franchises, and we're thrilled to have the
opportunity to work on an original story set in EA's Tiberium Universe."
For further information on the novel, COMMAND & CONQUER: TIBERIUM WARS, visit
http://www.delreybooks.com.
For information on Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars or the Command & Conquer
series, visit http://www.CommandAndConquer.EA.com.
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