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Come on, folks, "Slashdot" the handeye.com box. We dare you. :-)

Hopefully everybody will pre-order these games from us. Meanwhile, we still have metal-boxed Quake III Arena; those are really nice.

- snack

You can order Q3A for Linux (in the metal box, of course!) from Handeye.com for US$47.99. We're quite a bit more supportive of the Open Source movement than, say, Electronics Boutique. Jab jab.

Ooh, right, we wrote a review, too. Read all about Q3A here.

You can order Q3A for Linux (in the metal box, of course!) from Handeye.com for US$47.99. We're quite a bit more supportive of the Open Source movement than, say, Electronics Boutique. Jab jab.

Ooh, right, we wrote a review, too. Read all about Q3A here.

What else should you get a geek? I'm stocking up on games... Civ: CTP, Myth II, and Quake when it comes out. You can get both Civ:CTP and Myth II from various places. The best price is about $44 from Handeye.com, one of the only places that sells only Linux games.Support the cause!

/me crunches some numbers...

We ( handeye.com) are one of the sites that sells this game. Our sales have thus far been pretty healthy, considering that everything up 'til now has been a pre-order. We have around 1000 copies of Civ:CTP, about 20% of which were pre-ordered. As of today, when we actually receive the boxes from Loki (and ship out the games), we expect our sales to perk up a little.

News like this (the porting of these two games) makes me very happy, as a long-time Linux enthusiast and occasional gamer. It's great to see that there's a market for Linux games and a growing market for commercial Linux software in general. (What else is new, though, right?)

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I'd like to thank quite a few of you (you know who you are) for making us a well-trafficked web site. We've gotten about 400,000 hits since our public launch in late April/early May, and people have been sending positive feedback. We especially get warm feelings when people tell us we're giving back to the Linux community. Anyway, I'll keep churning out the Perl as long as you folks are interested in buying games.
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I've just discussed it with my cohorts, and we at handeye.com plan to sell these games on our web site, just like we're selling Civ:CTP now.

By the way, if you're one of our Civ:CTP customers, sit tight, because your game is on the way. I finished Perl-ifying our shipping process a few hours ago, and conveniently the boxes should be arriving today (5/18) from Loki. We'll slap labels on 'em and shoot 'em out the door as soon as we can see cardboard.

Excuse me if this announcement is a little premature, but we're like really excited, primarily because we're such Linux nerds. So bear with us. (And go to our web site.)

I've just discussed it with my cohorts, and we at handeye.com plan to sell these games on our web site, just like we're selling Civ:CTP now.

By the way, if you're one of our Civ:CTP customers, sit tight, because your game is on the way. I finished Perl-ifying our shipping process a few hours ago, and conveniently the boxes should be arriving today (5/18) from Loki. We'll slap labels on 'em and shoot 'em out the door as soon as we can see cardboard.

Excuse me if this announcement is a little premature, but we're like really excited, primarily because we're such Linux nerds. So bear with us. (And go to our web site.)

Handeye.com sells it too, and it's cheaper than at GameCellar. So if you haven't picked up a copy, well, you know what to do.

-Ben, handeye.com programming geek