Gratuitous Space Battles Beta Page has details on how to get to play with the beta of the "spacebattle porn" of Gratuitous Space Battles if you preorder this upcoming science-fiction strategy/management/simulation from Positech Games. Indie developer Cliff Harris outlines what he thinks still needs work on the game in a post to his Blog. There's a video from the game on Shacknews and there's an interview with the man also known as "cliffski" on Rock, Paper, Shotgun where he outlines what this game is all about, which is not 4X strategy: "Take a game like Galciv II or Sins of a Solar Wossname… they take AGES before you build up enough resources and enough ships and money to actually have a big space battle. GSB is like spacebattle porn, without all the foreplay of empire-building. Although it would work well if it had a traditional 4x built around it."