First details: Black & White 2 on GameSpot continues their audience with Peter Molyneux, the head of the pride at Lionhead Studios, getting the first bits of information out of him regarding plans for Black & White 2, the sequel to their god game. According to the article, B&W2 will contain the enhancements found in Creature Isles, the upcoming B&W expansion "(or minisequel, as the team likes to say)," and will be much more focused on strategy than the original, as, like in Creature Isles, you will find your once-peaceful island embroiled in conflict. The article goes into other innovations planned for the game, and even elicited an estimate that the sequel is about "a year or so" away. Here's a bit more that describes the ambitious plans for the future of this franchise:

One of Molyneux's surprise revelations was that Lionhead has a very long-term plan for Black & White. A console version that rethinks the game's mechanics for play with a PlayStation 2 or Xbox controller instead of the PC mouse is in the works, and there are also basic plans to extend the Black & White series through five full games. For the third game and beyond, there are one or two page design docs, and they're naturally pretty vague at this stage. But there are some more specific plans for Black & White 3, which should be particularly spectacular visually and will use a completely new engine. Molyneux envisions that the Black & White series will likely continue in the same highly detailed yet cartoony visual style, but ever-improving PC and console hardware will open up new and more dramatic gameplay options.