Once again I went to It Won’t Stay in Vegas party, and as always it was a pleasure to be there. The party this year was packed, but there were some good products on display there. It was held at the Atomic Test Museum, which is full of interesting pictures from the history of US military bomb testing. Getting to the sponsors, I liked the Sonos whole house music player idea, but I wish the services that it used all worked from Canada. Otterbox was a sponsor and they had samples of some of their cell phone protectors.  Also RIM was a sponsor showing off their Blackberry phones.

Google Android was a major sponsor of the event, and they know how to pick a spokesperson: Brent Spiner who played Lt Commander Data, the android from Star Trek: the Next Generation. It sure created a buzz amongst the attendees.
In the Sony sponsored lounge, there were previews of some great new PlayStation Network games. I quite liked the cinematic qualities and bendable storyline of “Heavy Rain” a PS3 exclusive coming next month. Also EyePet which used the EyeToy for PS3 was an amazingly good use of Augmented Reality, and is due out late fall. But I spent quite a while talking to the Producer from the new PSP port of the old favorite PS3 PSN title Fat Princess.

Fat Princess for PSP is going to be a very faithful port of the PS3 classic game from last year.  I tried it out, and it was very smooth.  To achieve that, they had to make a concession and move from 32 players down to 8 players plus 8 AI players, but it works over Adhoc or the Internet.  The maps are the same as the original, with a little tuning to account for the smaller max players.  But they didn’t stop there, there are a bunch of new levels and even some other suprises.  It looks like it’ll be a really great game.