I defeated Bush today. As Kerry. In the Political Machine that is.  The first beta is going out tomorrow and I played the build we have up on Stardock Central (available privately).  It'll be available tomorrow to all users of Drengin.net . I'm not fully satisfied with the game play so far. We'll be tweaking the heck out of the game in the coming weeks. But I must say, even as a beta, I'm having a pretty good time. Which isn't something I could say for Galactic Civilizations which...