Downloading now, even though I have some reservations - Spore is probably a polished product and a fine technological achievement, but I'm guessing it's a little shallow gameplay-wise. We'll see.

It will be very interesting to observe the ripple effects of Spore, however. It sounds like a great entry-level game with interesting social networking features, likely to pull lots of new people into the gaming hobby. I'm also taking bets on just how soon the radical religious groups and figures will declare Spore the epitome of unholy for spreading the theory of evolution. And penis monsters.