I hate it when companies have offsite events at conventions, it means leaving the convention center where all the real action is and takes up valuable floor walking time, but I like the folks at Sony so I made a special trip down to the brand new Las Vegas City Center where the PlayStation team held court to celebrate MAG going gold. They had a surprisingly decent turnout, but then the promise of several hours of fragging, free booze and food will get that for you. In attendance were the developers of Mag. 2009 really has been the year of the PS3, after only using it to play Blu-ray movies for 3 years I’m finally enjoying it as a Video Game platform and with MAG and other exclusives, 2010 promises to be another great year. I ran out of space yesterday and upgraded my HD with no issues.
I’ll admit I was in a pretty pissy mood at this event, between taking up a couple of hours of my day and dying literally every time I took a couple of steps in the game I was feeling tired and frustrated. I’m going to spend some quality time with the open beta this week to get myself ready for the January 26th release. Sony did a really cool thing and promised everyone who attended the event would get a free copy of the game. That’s a really great way to treat loyal Sony Fanboys who attend these things with short notice. Way to go Sony! So word to the wise if you follow The Official Playstation Blog it’s worth your time to attend one of these events.