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UPDATE 2PM UK: Nintendo has now published an English language statement on today's announcement its account system has suffered a privacy breach affecting up to 160,000 people.

Torchlight 3 feels like it's come out of nowhere because in many ways it has. For a long time it was known as Torchlight Frontiers. It wasn't a codename but a name for something fundamentally different to the Torchlight games which had come before. It was free-to-play. But the people playing the alpha didn't like it and, truth be told, the developer didn't either, so late last year, big, bold changes were made. The studio went dark and when it reemerged in January, it announced a remarkable turnaround. No longer did the game have a free-to-play heart. It, and all its wiring, had been ripped out and replaced by a buy-once, premium design. No longer was the game fundamentally different to the Torchlights which came before it. No longer was the game Torchlight Frontiers. It was, instead, Torchlight 3.

Here's a Friday fillip for you courtesy of Wired Productions - a chance to win a custom Xbox One X, celebrating the launch of Deliver Us The Moon on consoles.

Pets are coming to Fallout 76, Bethesda has said.

Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook. I'm talking about potions, hubs, bags, mountains, anything really - but things we ignore at the time. Then, years later, we find they're cemented in our memory, inseparable from our experience of the game. Turns out they were important after all. So now we're celebrating them.

The world of Tintin will be brought to life in a new console and PC game, French publisher Microids has announced.

The panic to sell turnips before they spoil is near universal, it seems, as even celebrities are popping up in player DMs to ask for dodo codes. It was certainly an unexpected journey.

WWE 2K21 is canned, WWE has confirmed.

What a wild month it's been in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Entire industries have been birthed, crimes have been committed, empires have risen and fallen. We all got through that week with the eggs. The amount of creativity and self-expression, both within Animal Crossing and across its community, has been staggering. And all the while, all I've really done is clock up 160 hours in pursuit of the perfect bathroom.

This week, outdated source code for Valve's Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was posted in the public domain, causing concern it could be used to circumvent security in these games.

Destroy All Humans is one of those games that overloads its opening moments. The first half hour is a march of new ideas and possibilities, and then the game settles into something surprisingly compact.

Incarceration-themed management sim Prison Architect is expanding again next month, courtesy of the free Cleared for Transfer expansion, which comes to PC on 14th May.

DICE will move on from Battlefield 5 after a summer update, it's said.

Today's big 1.2.0 patch for Animal Crossing: New Horizons includes, as previously detailed, the ability for Leif and Redd to visit your town and for you to add bushes.

Minimal Affect does not attempt to hide its influences.

Open world bike racer Lonely Mountains: Downhill will swerve onto Nintendo Switch next month, on 7th May.

There's some pretty wild news for Xbox Game Pass console subscribers today, as GTA 5 is due to be swapped out for a certain cowboy game very shortly.

Earlier this month, 80 Days and Heaven's Vault developer Inkle unveiled its latest project, Arthurian-legend-themed strategy game Pendragon, and now the developer is inviting its community to submit bite-sized "campfire stories" to appear in-game.

It's been nine months since Splatoon 2 celebrated what was expected to be its final ever Splatfest on Switch; but now, Nintendo is dusting off its ink-flaps and squirting out a one-off last hoorah for the multiplayer shooter's ever-delightful community wide competitive event, which is scheduled to begin on 23rd May in the UK.

Dead Cells, developer Motion Twin's wonderful action-platform rogue-like, continues its seemingly unstoppable expansion with another free update - this time in the form of the Bestiary Update - which is out now on PC, with console a release to follow.

Crash Bandicoot Mobile, Activision's imaginatively titled Crash Bandicoot mobile game, has soft-launched for Android devices via Google Play across select regions.

Telling Lies, the acclaimed FMV-driven investigative thriller from Her Story developer Sam Barlow, will be heading to Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One next week, on 28th April.

The lesson from the latest Pokémon: Twilight Wings animated short is that women can, in fact, do it all - and focuses on Nessa as she struggles with a crisis of confidence in her career decisions.

Something I suspect Nintendo never imagined when developing Animal Crossing: New Horizons was that Nook Miles Tickets - the coupons which can be used to visit mysterious deserted islands - would become a form of virtual currency. In the Animal Crossing trading community, large numbers of Nook Miles Tickets (abbreviated to NMT) are currently changing hands, and the whole thing feels rather weird. And, as ever, we're at the point where people are selling them in bulk for real money.

I've tried a bunch of deck-building card games but Ancient Enemy feels fresh and new. It's another game where you have one life to see how far you can get, and where you battle with cards and gain new cards as you go. But at the same time, Ancient Enemy is fundamentally different.

In the dog-eat-dog world of Fallout, murder and the looting of corpses is the name of the game. But NPCs are supposed to follow different rules.

Disaster Report 4 is, in so many ways, a complete failure. Its objectives are an illogical botch, the frame-rate tends to lurch down to single figures, there's an eternal haziness that makes it look like you're viewing its world through petrol fumes while character models look like they've been picked fresh from a PlayStation 2 game that's been sitting unloved on a CEX shelf for some years. I absolutely implore you to try it.

After 18 months of availability on Android phones, Fortnite will finally be available to download via Google's own Play store.

Today sees the launch of Sea of Thieves' latest update, Ships of Fortune, and it's big 'un, redefining and expanding one of the core tenets of the launch-day game: trading companies. It's a fitting way to begin the multiplayer pirate adventure's third year of post-launch updates, but, of course, it arrives in strange times.

Microsoft's official Xbox Series X logo has popped up as part of a new trademark filing.