Two stunners...

First off, I think my wife may gain about fifty pounds based merely on the newest Ben & Jerry's flavor. It's ice cream and beer - combined! Seriously, this could be very bad for her chances at the Flying Pig. For me, the Berried Treasure looks a lot better.

And even more impressive is a new game that is being promoted in this preview video. The game is called Spore and is one of the most impressive games I've ever seen. If you'd like some still pics, they're here.

The game starts as a unicellular creature who you can start to evolve in various ways which allows the game to shift to a multi-cellular creature (that you can again evolve in various ways. From there, you get to move from sea to land to then begin a civilization. Your creatures can go from villages to cities at which the game shifts more toward a Civilization game and then toward more of a Risk game. From there, you're able to leave the planet and head into space where you can discover other lifeforms and interact with planets that have been evolved and terraformed by other players who have been playing their versions of the games.

Seriusly, the scope of this game is so phenomenally vast, from unicellular to exploring space, that I can't imagine how big this thing has to be. It's the perfect game that could be played forever. Absolutely forever without ever worrying about reproducing yourself or getting bored.

The video is long - 35 minutes - but it's one that's well worth watching. Let me please implore everybody (Becky, Joe, GRob, especially) to carve out the time to watch this one. Oh my freakin' lord...

There is no way that I can properly describe the scale and scope of this game.

Watch the video, please.

PS - If you're interested in Spore, here's a longer version (~1 hr) of the video with some clearer graphics and more explanation from the lecturer.