EA Summer Showcase

[Stoney Mason]

Join our live broadcast this Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. PT (8:00 p.m. UTC) and experience EA’s annual Summer Showcase firsthand. This year’s event will include presentations, announcements, and live demos from titles including Battlefield 3: Armored Kill, Medal of Honor Warfighter, FIFA 13, Madden NFL 13, The Sims 3, EA Mobile and Social, and other fan-favorite franchises.

http://www.ea.com/1/summer-showcase

[Stoney Mason]

Showing Wii U and 360 versions of FIFA and madden. As expected it offloads the menu stuff onto the gamepad. Also some management feature type stuff.

[Himu]

who gives a fuck about fifa controls.

just tell us about new features in the game

[Stoney Mason]

Doing mobile stuff now. Announced Real Racing 3 (looks good) and shows Orc Vengeance which is already out for ios.



PopCap showing some shitty pet zombie free to play cash in app from the Plants versus Zombies universe. 

I'll just update this post with news.

Sims Seasons Expansion pack for the PC this fall.
Talking about additions to Need for Speed World (I had no idea such a thing even existed)
They talk about the armored kill dlc coming up for Battlefield 3 but show like 10 seconds of footage. Lame.
Linkin Park adds two new original tracks for Medal of Honor! WoW!!!!!!
 
Mass Effect 3 Leviathon trailer. Dumb because it shows shepard which must mean its pre end game DLC. I don't want more pre-adventures of Shepard. Create a new fucking guy and cast for that.
Army of Two devil's cartel announced. Being made by visceral. Release in March 2013.

[Himu]

Sims 3 Seasons? You trying to bring me back, EA?!

[Stoney Mason]

And its over. Mostly lame

[Stoney Mason]

Linkin' Park

Are they even relevant post 2006?

You could ask the same about EA...

It's such a early 2000's attitude. We'll piggyback trying to sell our shooter game on the back of some semi-popular band. Activision runs circles around them when it comes to marketing their shooter titles.

[Positive Touch]

ME3 SP DLC:

Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is the first story-driven, single player DLC to be made available since Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut. Leviathan expands upon the events of Mass Effect 3 with gripping and emotional storytelling, compelling new characters, powerful weapons and unique upgrades. Players will be able to discover more about the origins of the reapers as they race across the galaxy to unravel the mystery that surrounds the fabled Leviathan.

hell yeah retconning

[Himu]

[ferrarimanf355]

Real Racing 3...

[Takao]

It's not Dead Space Visceral btw. EA's just naming every studio it owns that. Soon we'll have Visceral Criterion Need For Speed games. So what I'm saying is that it's actually EA Montreal behind Army of |||. So you're looking at the same guys as before. I'm surprised the second sold well enough for a third.

Overstrike not being here to me implies it's next gen. If Insomniac has any semblance of a brain they should know launching a new IP in the EA Partners program in 2013 when PS4/720 is coming out would be disastrous.