Gather up your pies and wedges, round up friends and family and join in the fun as Electronic Arts celebrates the 25th year of Trivial Pursuit by offering new ways and places to play. Along with being released on Pogo.com, Electronic Arts announced today that Trivial Pursuit will be making an appearance on the Xbox 360!

The console version of Trivial Pursuit brings the party to the living room TV allowing players to customize the experience with several ways to play. Players can connect with friends in classic Trivial Pursuit mode, hone their knowledge with the single player mode, and gather their buddies and bet on their brains with the high stakes mode where every answer counts. Trivial Pursuit will release on the Xbox 360 (and other next generation consoles) in early spring 2009.

”Trivial Pursuit is a beloved game of many families. We’re so excited to be able to bring daily bites of fresh new trivia to our Pogo.com players. We have thousands of questions to draw from ensuring every day delivers a new set of fun facts.” said Andrew Pedersen, Pogo General Manager. “EA‘s goal is to give people many ways to play Trivial Pursuit. Whether playing with family across the country online at Pogo.com, in your living room with friends or on your cell phone while waiting to pick up the kids from school, there’s a way for everyone to have fun.”

“It promises to be an incredibly exciting year for Trivial Pursuit fans around the world,” said Mark Blecher, General Manager, Digital Media and Gaming, Hasbro. “Often referred to as ‘a party in a box’, Trivial Pursuit will celebrate its 25th anniversary by breaking out of the box and landing on a of popular online, handheld and console formats allowing a test of wits showdown to unfold in the palm of your hand anytime, anyplace.”

This will be the second game that EA is converting from board game to console (for the Xbox 360), with the first game being Monopoly.