As part of its earnings announcement today, megapublisher Electronic Arts revealed, through Gamespot UK, the coming release of some of its highest-profile games. From the announcment:

“We have made some adjustments to our SKU plan that will move a couple of titles into fiscal 2008, specifically Army of Two and Crisis,” EA chief financial officer Warren Jenson told analysts during a postearnings conference call.

During the same call, Jenson also confirmed that several sequels to EA’s most important franchises are in the works. “Yes, there’s a Sims 3 in development and it’s likely to be a fiscal ‘09 title,” said Jenson, meaning the game would hit stores before April 2009. The executive also confirmed that the Sims franchises will also be coming to two next-generation platforms - the Wii and the PlayStation 3.

Several other new titles were unveiled during the call. “There will be another Lord of the Rings [game]… There’s a new SimCity game in the pipeline and the next-generation version of Black. Those things alone are all new, relative to fiscal ‘07,” said Jenson. It was unclear whether Jenson meant the games would arrive before the end of EA’s 2007 fiscal year, or were just new to the company’s financial plan for the 12-month period.

We’ve heard rumours and stories, but this is the first official confirmation we’ve had that a new SimCity is in the works. There is speculation that it may be demo’d at the E3 conference in summer 2007.

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