and I guess it has been for the last two months or so ... talk about a quiet splash.

http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21886

so ... yeah ..... Jesus fuck biscuit dog scrotum!

what the fuck and how the hell did this not blow the fuck up on every site relating to PC gaming?

Well, not that quiet...
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/torque_3d_went_open_source_mit_license_and_is_now_free_to_use

yeah, but one thread on gog that lasted less than a page is not the same as getting covered by RPS.

It was in Slashdot, LinuxToday.com, Phoronix, and a few FOSS sites. Of course if you do not frequent FOSS sites, you may not have heard about it. Well, I am not familiar with RPS, so I wouldn't know.

"Rock Paper Shotgun" it's the only PC gaming focused site on the web (that is in English). but they may as well change the name to "Rock Paper STEAM" 'cause that is pretty much all that they cover.