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Proxy Statement
PROXY STATEMENT
Our Board of Directors is soliciting proxies for the 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The proxy materials,
including this proxy statement and our annual report, proxy card and voting instructions, contain important
information for you to consider when deciding how to vote on the matters brought before the meeting. Please
read them carefully.
The Board has set June 6, 2011 as the record date for the meeting. Stockholders who owned common stock on
that date are entitled to notice of the meeting, and to attend and vote at the meeting, with each share entitled to
one vote. There were 331,345,938 shares of common stock outstanding on the record date.
In accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”),
we are providing stockholders with access to our proxy materials by providing such documents on the Internet.
The Notice of Annual Meeting, proxy statement, our 2011 Annual Report and form of proxy were distributed
and/or made available via the Internet to stockholders on or about June 10, 2011. Stockholders will have the
ability to access the proxy materials on a website referred to in the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy
Materials (the “Notice”) or request a printed set of the proxy materials be sent to them, by following the
instructions in the Notice.
The proxy card provides instructions on how to inform us to send future proxy materials to you electronically by
email. If you choose to receive future proxy materials by email, you will receive an email next year with
instructions containing a link to those materials and a link to the proxy voting site. Your election to receive proxy
materials by email will remain in effect until you terminate it. We encourage you to choose to receive future
proxy materials by email. Doing so will allow us to provide you with the information you need in a more timely
manner, will save us the cost of printing and mailing documents to you, and will help conserve natural
resources.
In this proxy statement:
• “EA”, “we”, “our” and “the Company” mean Electronic Arts Inc.
• “2000 Equity Plan” and “Equity Plan” mean EA’s 2000 Equity Incentive Plan.
• “2000 Purchase Plan” and “Purchase Plan” mean EA’s 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Holding shares in “street name” means your EA shares are held in an account at a bank, brokerage firm or
other nominee.
• “Common stock” means EA’s common stock, as described in EA’s current Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation.
• “Fiscal 2012”, “fiscal 2011”, “fiscal 2010”, “fiscal 2009”, “fiscal 2008” and “fiscal 2007” refer to EA’s
fiscal years ending or ended (as the case may be) on March 31, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007,
respectively. For simplicity of disclosure, fiscal periods are referred to as ending on a calendar month
end, even though our fiscal year is reported on a 52- or 53-week period that ends on the Saturday nearest
March 31. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 contained 52 weeks and
ended on April 2, 2011.
• We use “independent auditors” to mean an independent registered public accounting firm.
• “Annual Report” and “2011 Annual Report” mean our annual report for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2011.
In this proxy statement, we may make forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial
performance of the Company. Statements including words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate” or “expect”
and statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject
to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or actual future results to differ materially from those set
forth in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to Electronic Arts’ latest Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual events or actual
results to differ materially from those discussed in this proxy statement. These forward-looking statements speak
only as of the date of this proxy statement; we assume no obligation to, and do not necessarily intend to, update
these forward-looking statements.
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