Barry Diller buys Torque

Gamasutra article here.   They're working on a web plugin, and plan to make a game portal called "instantaction.com" (wasn't that a band in the 80s?) .   This ups the ante quite a bit, and gives a lot of momentum to GarageGames.   While Torque is the 3D platform to beat on Windows, it's inferior in many ways to Unity, IMHO.   But with a workable browser plugin,  XNA integration, and the Dillions in funding, the gap may be narrowing.  Unity 2.0 is due any day, but without a Windows port, Unity may be left standing on the sidelines, the Betamax of realtime 3D tools.  Time is a factor, and as cool as Unity is,  powerful and well-financed competitors want the same space.