Just headed onto the garage game's website to check out how the guys are doing with torque, to find this banner ^. Aparrently now, Torque 3D is FREE, and you can take a look at the source code on github - even better - you can compile it on and for linux .

The MIT license I believe allows you to sell the games running the engine to others WITHOUT distributing your's or the engine's source code.... pretty cool eh?

Plus - anyone else looking to build games on a budget, ID Tech 4 is free too with access to source code - it once powered (and I suppose, still continues to power) Doom 3 , and Quake wars! Again - old news I know... but... just so you guys know.

(BTW Is this new? has the news been passed around already? I have No idea?)

Apparently it has been like this since September 2012. The reason, it looks like, is because the company is moving more towards the "service" side of business (instead of selling a product, they're trying to sell a service (I haven't read up on the services they offer)).

Plus - anyone else looking to build games on a budget, ID Tech 4 is free too with access to source code - it once powered (and I suppose, still continues to power) Doom 3 , and Quake wars!

Yes, id Tech 4 is open source, but under the GNU General Public License version 3. This means that you would need to release the source code to your id Tech 4 based game (and it also has to be GNU GPLv3 licensed as well). Torque3D on the other hand uses the MIT License which means you can pretty much to whatever you want with the code, including releasing your game as closed source.