This week we expect to release v1.02 of The Political Machine which improves support for Windows 98 systems and makes some gameplay tweaks with regards to the endorsement system (it'll be slightly harder for Republicans to get liberal endorsements and vice versa).

But what about after the election?  Stardock plans to continue to provide new updates to The Political Machine in various forms. One area we plan to try to update the game regularly are on the issues.  We don't want the game to get dated because of the issues. So we plan to keep updating the issues post-election.

We also plan to do an update after the election to make the game a bit less 2004 election centric so that players can play the game without it feeling like they're running the last election.

One way you can help us is to let us know which candidates you think we need to include for the 2008 election. What issues do you feel we should bump around a bit in this election? Let us know here.