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Professor Layton is indeed a curious game. For people who are not into slaying beasts and blasting menacing enemies from the unfriendly skies, Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a gem.

Optical illusions and geometric challenges along with 100+ puzzles add up to a marvelous challenge.

“It’s a game no one can feel bad about or condemn. It makes math fun, it makes word problems fun, it challenges you to think about problems in a new way. It’s got a great story, lovely art, and nice voice acting,” says Jennifer Tsao, group managing editor for the 1Up Network.

Professor Layton players explore the town, which delivers all the imagined experiences of curious village.

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“Our job is to be behaviorists and psychologists,” says Ehtisham Rabbani, LG’s vice president for product strategy and marketing. “We constantly have to be reminding ourselves that we tend to be geek types and our customers are not.”

The debut of a new cellphone is like the debut of a movie. Consumers and marketers know right away if it’s a hit.

“The world has changed,” says Jeremy Dale, who is in charge of marketing for mobile devices at Motorola.  “There is more relevance in what other consumers say than what the company is saying.”

Style drives more than a few cellphones, such as the new Onyx Liscio.

And the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 with its 480×800 pixel panel touchscreen is nothing if not handsome…

But style needs the support of substance, and when technology falls short of packaging, consumers bolt. Most notably, Motorola learned this lesson when the Razr failed to evolve into a device that worked as well as it looked.

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T-Mobile calls its new cellphone service “Talk Forever Home Phone” and it is scheduled to launch this spring in Dallas and Seattle.

The “Talk Forever” Linksys router is targeted to consumers who are ready to ditch their landline phone. It lets T-Mobile subscribers use their wireless service with any tethered or cordless home phone.

The T-Mobile Wi-Fi wireless router will cost $50. It works as a stationary cellphone that bakes the Wi-Fi network into the T-Mobile network. If you want, the Linksys router can replace the router you’re using now. Calls are not carried over the internet: this is not a VOIP system but supported by the T-Mobile network.

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“Pirates’ Den” replaces swords and other tools of piracy with dice. But one element of the pirate’s world remains… deceit.

The game takes place in a Pirate’s Tavern full of gold coins. Bluffing and cheating is part of the strategy. “Pirates’ Den” players can launch Blackjack, Poker or Liar’s Dice.

To win as many gold coins as possible there are three gaming modes.

Pirates’ Den is from the Polish developer Gameleons.

Pirates’ Den Video

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Bubble Bash has debuted at iTunes.

Bubble Bash is compatible with third generation iPod nanos and iPod classics and fifth-generation video iPods.

Bubble Bash is a color-matching game apparently inspired by “Bust-a-Move” where players throw bubbles into the sky and try and get a color match as the clock ticks.

By the way, Podmaxx is a great tool for unlocking many of the restrictions on your iPod… learn how it will help you copy music from any iPod to your PC, and more.

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