You may have heard the PirateBay rumblings from yesterday, but Phoronix actually has the retail version of the game in-hand already. Photos at the link. Cool stuff.

"Over four years ago was the first time we had heard rumors that Quake 4 was indeed under development and that it would be developed by Raven Software while of course working closely with id Software. Quake 4, which runs off a modified version of the Doom 3 engine, is finally available today - October 18, 2005. However, the Linux binaries for the client and server remain curtained."