EA had their Summer Showcase event today, and those of you with hopes of new game footage or new game announcements will be disappointed, and after today you should just be happy that EA hasn’t announced that they’re leaving the games industry all together yet.

They started off with the EA Sports stuff though not the games they said were their best EA sports games leaving SSX on the shelf while they promoted NCAA Football and some Hockey thing, they then moved on to a Sims expansion pack for a previous Sims expansion pack.

Transitioning to digital downloads EA talked up Origin’s special friends list crossover so ipad gamers, and Battlefield 3 gamers can get together like they’ve been dying to for years, then it was time for Facebook gaming, showing R.I.S.K. Factions, followed by cross-platform play for Scrabble on Android, iPad, iPhone, and Facebook.

They began to go into what looked to be a real game finally with Burnout Crash, but then declared it a Kinect game.

Funcom came out to give a little attention to The Secret World, giving us a teaser trailer, hopefully this MMO won’t be another in the trash heap considering all the development time that could have been being spent on a new Longest Journey game.

Some rep for Bioware came out to push the expansion pack for Dargon Age II which looked notably worse than Dragon Age Origins in both graphics, and of course gameplay.

They closed out the show by showing nothing of Battlefield 3, but promised a great party was waiting for the press in the room.

Hopefully they’ll continue to show more of the game throughout E3, perhaps a map with some actual designed elements, rather than big open nothingness with the same jump littered all over the place.

EA finally released some media for the Alice sequel Alice: Madeness Returns. It looks like the real deal, the same atmosphere and style with a modern graphical upgrade. The teaser trailer is short, but shows us that they won’t be holding back on the weird for the sake of grabbing the mainstream audience, This is a true sequel to a flawed classic of PC gaming.

EA today announced their latest Maxis game Darkspore. Not a very creative name for a Spore spinoff, though I suppose it’s better than Spore: Dark.

Darkspore will be a Diablo style game with the twist on the formula being that you upgrade using parts created with an updated version of the Spore creature creator.

Darkspore is planned for an early 2011 release for the PC.

Surprising absolutely nobody, it appears the formerly Wii exclusive arcade basketball title NBA Jam will be making it’s way to the HD platforms 360 & Playstation 3. Discovered, as these things often are, via a ratings board the German USK has rated NBA Jam for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 release. It’s not known at this time whether or not this will be a disc release or a downloadable title, though it would seem somewhat insane to undercut full price disc release sales on one platform by releasing the same game as a lower price download on two other platforms.

Originally they were going to charge for these Michael Jackson costumes, but due to a misinterpretation of customer outrage they have decided to simply promote the game by giving them away for free.