Windows: Q3A was shipped today and you should expect Babbages and EB to have it as early as tomorrow (I think they may have paid extra for expedited shipping). Please understand that not all of these stores may actuall stock the game on shelves tomorrow and some of them may already be "sold out" due to the huge pre-order response (in fact, Q3A is #1 for these stores before even hitting the shelves). CompUSA, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc. are all getting copies as well, but they probably won't show up on shelves before the "official" US date of December 5th.

Just like with Quake II, we won't have any copies for sale from 1-800 idgames before the retailers (retail outlets are our first priority for shipping). I'll let everyone know once we get some here so you can order direct from us.

UPDATE: Linux Shelf Date: We have just announced with Loki Software (our Linux distributor) that we should be on shelves by December 27th in the limited edition tin box.

So it looks like noone will be getting Linux Quake 3 under their Christmas trees, but at least it's coming out soon! Wonder what's up with the Mac version? Also, remember with EB that a lot of their stores start selling preorder copies if they're not claimed at like 5pm or something like that.