Voting was limited to Scotland-developed titles, but it was still the first year the Scotland organization (sigh, organisation) of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized (sigh, recognised) video games for specific honors (sigh, honours.)

Flock beat out Championship Manager Express 2010 (by Dynamo Games) and Low Grav Racer (Cobra Mobiles). Proper's creative director, Geoff Gunning, said the Dundee-based studio was amazed "to be recognised by such a prestigious body." He added that the studio's working on an unannounced product and will be developing downloadable titles for the near future.

Flock! Wins BAFTA Scotland Award [Team Xbox]

To go with this announcement, Capcom has also blogged a fabulous pair of fan-made shoes.

Flock! for those of you sheeple who haven't gotten into it, yet, is an adorable puzzle game where players control a UFO and try to herd animals through hazardous environments back to the main spaceship, "The Mother Flocker." The unbearable cuteness of the game has spawned a playset that you can get from the Capcom store for $30.

Check out the game in action.

PC Update Teaser & Flock: The Shoes [Capcom]

Capcom will be selling the playset lands in their store this week in very limited quantities. The sets, which include a mothership, herding saucer and stand, and pairs of sheep, chicks, pigs and chickens, will go on sall at 3 p.m. Pacific this Thursday.

The price is still TBA, which is slightly scary.

The FLOCK! playset lands in the Capcom Store this week

In this cross-over to end all cross-overs, Blanka makes a special appearance in the UFO livestock puzzler Flock, doing what he does best - rolling into a ball and falling off cliffs. Okay, perhaps that's not what he does best, but we've already got plenty of games where he does that. Let the poor giant green man indulge in a hobby now and then. It's healthy.

For more hot Blanka rolling action, be sure to check out Flock, due out on the PC tomorrow, the PlayStation Network Thursday, and Xbox Live Arcade any day now.

The sequel to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords—which doesn't seem to stack up as well as the original—joins the sheepish Flock! from Capcom. The Proper Games-developed puzzler features the winning combination of sheep herding and UFOs, all for the low price of 1200 Microsoft Points.

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix comes in a little pricier, setting you back 1600 Microsoft Points. Both will be available on April 8th.

Flock & Puzzle Quest: Galactrix [Xbox.com]

The mother ship is surrounded by a farm's worth of animals and a lone ship ready to do some gathering and probing. The best part is that the whole thing packs up neatly into one solid toy.

Charity door prize ahoy!

Sure, Proper Games' creation might be the only UFO animal herding puzzle game created by human hands, but that just makes the statement even more valid. This trailer demonstrates the different seasons that Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC players will be able to herd animals during, reminding me of what my mother always used to tell me. "An alien shepherd's work is never done," she'd tell me, before turning out the lights and staring at me with her frightening glowing red eyes until the sheer terror was no longer enough to keep me awake.

Flock drops in early April for PC, Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation Network.

It's not a sheep-herding sim, but there is sheep herding. There is herding of adorable cotton ball sheep who live in a fluffy, stuffed-toy looking world, grazing peacefully in a patchwork meadow. The stitch-edged, pastoral aesthetic is sweet, gentle, and just a little offbeat, in the context of the quirky and sometimes hilariously grim gameplay.

The player controls an orange UFO with a tractor beam, and an individual level's objective generally revolves around getting a certain number of sheep to the mother ship. The tractor beam must nudge the sheep carefully around pitfalls and use strategy to navigate obstacles — for example, when confronted with a fence, lead the cotton wool sheep to a water fountain and they'll shrink enough to pass under the fence.

Sometimes, sheep can die, leaving the player with fewer than is needed to complete the level. What happens in nature when populations get thin? Well, many levels have pink lady sheep standing plaintively alone — lead her and a male sheep together to a heart-shaped patch on the meadow. Hearts surround them to give them privacy, and then voila! Baby sheep!

The male sheep get attached to the ladies, though. Should she be led astray and allowed to accidentally tumble into a pit, the entire flock bursts into lovelorn tears.

My favorite aspect of Flock was the playland aesthetic — something almost warm-milk adorable about the fluffy stuffed toy world, and I thought it was quite a creative move on the developers' part, not only to imagine the meadow levels in such an unexpected way, but to have it stand in contrast to gameplay where sheep mate on heart-shaped patches and tumble easily to their death while being chased by aliens.

IGN: Flock Preview[IGN]

Capcom's official E3 2008 line-up revealed [Capcom]