"As the market for interactive gaming continues to grow, font scaling and high- quality fonts become must-have features," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "Font Fusion, our most advanced font rendering engine, delivers outstanding technology to the computer and interactive gaming market. As markets develop worldwide, Bitstream's Font Fusion will play a key role in the rapid acceptance of interactive games and applications. We are pleased to add Electronics Arts to our growing list of customers in this exciting market segment."

"As graphics continue to improve, the need for high-end, intuitive font rendering is important to maintain the authenticity of the gameplay experience," said Brian Wideen, Senior Director Product Developer at EA Sports Canada. "Bitstream offers us another option that puts our fonts on par with the cutting-edge graphics we produce in our games."

About

Font Fusion
Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. Font Fusion is both small and fast. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on options. It generates more than 16,000 characters per second, using the Arial font at 25 lines per em on a 233MHz Pentium II processor, cache turned off.

Font Fusion is designed for operating systems, software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, PDAs, and other embedded systems and information and wireless appliances.

Bitstream Inc.
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc and Font Fusion technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream has released ThunderHawk, a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web.

Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts ( NASDAQ: ERTS), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts posted revenues of more than $1.7 billion for fiscal 2002. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS, EA GAMES, EA SPORTS BIG and EA.COMSM. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.info.ea.com.

Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and the Bitstream logo, Font Fusion, MyFonts.com, and ThunderHawk are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. EA SPORTS, EA GAMES, EA SPORTS BIG and MVP Baseball are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EA.COM is a service mark of EA.com Inc. NCAA and March Madness are trademarks or registered trademarks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Anna Chagnon
President
Bitstream Inc.
617.520.8619

Trudy Muller
Manager of Corporate Communications
Electronic Arts Inc.
650.628.7323