the number one game on itunes is... pocket god! for only 99 cents you can become god of your very own island! the little islanders look like tropical cavemen; they are SO cute! you can choose to be a kind god: feed them coconuts and give them little dance parties, or you can be an evil god (which i find a lot more fun): use them as shark bait, cause earthquakes, zap them with lightning, toss them into the volcano... the usual godly stuff. but what makes pocket god even MORE fun is the updates, there is new stuff coming every week! this week, the update is called "hi dracula". now, you can click on the moon (which you control, of course) and a bat will come out. then, it chomps on one of the islanders, which instantly turns him into a vampire! the vampire doesn't drink blood, but he does kick all the other islanders off the island. if you change the time to dawn, the vampire will start begging you not to put the sun up. of course, you can't resist, and do it anyways. the vampire will disintegrate into ashes... but not all the time. there is a way to save the vampire: you can cause an eclipse by grabbing the meteorite and blocking out the sun. this trick works only if you do it fast enough!

next week's update will introduce winds and hurricanes to the poor islanders. as if they don't get beat up enough!

unfortunately, pocket god is only available for ipod touch and iphone. if you don't have one, you can either a) wait for it to come out on other ipods (which is practically impossible because you need a touchscreen) or b) buy a new ipod.

you can read the pocket god blog at pocketgod.blogspot.com.