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Lofty promises and vague ideas that have little to do with video games--Molyneux is back!

Peter Molyneux has always been known for thinking outside the box. The man behind Populous and Black and White found huge success with Fable on the Xbox, and ended up working on the franchise for nearly a decade, including the upcoming Kinect game, Fable: The Journey. Molyneux has since moved on from Lionhead Studios, the company he helped found in 1997, and has gone to work for 22 Cans. Molyneux revealed today that 22 Cans is working on 22 unique “experiments,” the first of which is set to be released in only six weeks from now.

Molyneux says that he needs to create a “career defining” game in only three years, and the way he and 22 Cans (now 14 members strong) plan to do this is through small experiments. All of these experiments will have a single word for a name, and the first of these is Curiosity.

Curiosity is a, well, not a game per se, but an interactive app for smart phones and tablets that presents users with a massive black cube inside of a stark white room. Tapping on the cube chips away at the overall structure, revealing that the cube is comprised of millions upon millions of smaller cubes. As you chip away, you realize that millions of people around the world are chipping away at the same cube, and as Molyneux says, the question becomes “what’s inside the cube?”

That answer will only be revealed to one lucky person, and in typical boisterous Molyneux style, he claims that what is inside the cube is so incredible that the person who reveals it will not be able to believe it. Only time will tell if all that curiosity pays off, and if these 22 experiments will lead into what the actual big game from 22 Cans will be.