Fat Princess: The beautifully art directed multi-player game from Santa Monica’s Titan Studios sparked a flair of controversy when it was announced. Cake retention? Nevertheless, Sony has finally released the game here in the UK. Fat Princess is priced at £11.99 on the PSN.

The premise of the game is ludicrously simple. The curvaceous royalty in question is the “flag” in a an elaborate take on the ‘Capture the Flag’ game mechanic.

Fat Princess is beautifully presented in a fairy tale style. Level designs are elaborate and detailed and the character design –with quirky upgrades and power hats– are beautifully rendered.

Windosil is a beautifully conceived, constructed and executed Flash puzzle game. The implementation of simple real world mechanics – within a strange, surreal and beguiling graphical world – makes for a a surprisingly tactile digital experience. The sound design is simple but effective. Windosill is designed, programmed and animated by Patrick Smith, of Vector Park. The objective of the game is to solve the puzzle: how to find the cube to open the door. Simpe eh? No. Tickling a giant bird in a distorted – and elasticated – spherical metal bird house, and rolling a wooden train, have never felt so satisfying… play it.

Twenty three is the magic number. The number of moves necessary to solve an arbitrary Rubik’s cube configuration has been cut down to 23 moves, according to an update on Tomas Rokicki’s homepage. This is in agreement with informal group-theoretic arguments suggesting the necessary and sufficient number of moves should be in the low 20’s.  This theory is known as the God Algorithm.

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MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables – cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?

This really is simple, human interaction. The joy of interaction and play.