Telecommunications giant AT&T has confirmed that 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers have had their personal data compromised. The data stolen isn’t uniform, but may include, as AT&T detailed, “full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode.”

AT&T passcodes are four-digit pins, and those belonging to the 7.6 million current customers who had theirs compromised have been reset. AT&T has reached out to everyone affected with an email or letter.

I don’t consider myself a pinball purist, but I’ve been burnt enough by attempts to mix pinball with other genres to be somewhat cautious. You don’t live through Odama, an absolutely bizarre attempt to mix pinball and RTS that had to be played with voice controls, without wishing that developers would just leave lovely old pinball alone. 

But then something like Xenotilt comes along. Xenotilt is so good it’s even distracted me from my Balatro obsession. It mixes pinball with bullet hell sci-fi shoot-’em-ups, and this self-described ‘hostile pinball action’ game has pretty much ruined normal pinball for me. Although to be fair, it has about as much in common with a normal pinball table as I do. 

If the Xenotilt pinball machine existed in real life you’d need to be nine feet tall with a spare pair of eyes in your neck to be any good at it. Because it’s really three pinball tables stacked on top of each other, with a boss monster ruling over each one. These include an angry android cat that’s also a blackjack dealer, a furious Shodan-a-like at the top of the table who also serves as the game’s cutting commentator, and another cyberlady with cleavage that makes me a little embarrassed to be writing about this game. 

If that last run-on sentence felt overwhelming and nonsensical then just try playing it. In motion, Xenotilt is a gorgeous riot of colours, detonations, multiballs, gunfire, pained shrieks, and barks (which vary from “impressive!” to “UGH! HOW DARE YOU?!”). It only ever really pauses for breath when it’s teleporting you to another table, sometimes for a break to play an explosive game of billiards for some reason. Like a dolphin beached by an exploding fireworks factory, you’ll likely spend your first few games just desperately waving your flippers as you try to figure out what the hell is going on.

Luckily the basic principles of pinball will see you through the early confusion: hitting things with ball is good and ball falling in hole at bottom is bad. After 65 hours of play, I understand most of its jargon and how to achieve the biggest scores. But I’ve enjoyed it from hour one because I don’t think I’ve ever met anything more satisfying to slam a pinball against than a giant angry face that hates me. On glorious impact, these bosses flash, sometimes they bark, and often they look incredibly offended that a mere pinball dare strike them. The not-Shodan lady at the very top loses more artificial skin with every wallop, revealing the furious Terminator head lurking just under the surface. Naturally these bosses then counterattack, usually by spraying waves of bullets and swarms of smaller enemies everywhere, all increasing the chances of your tiny little ball taking a fatal bounce into that gap at the bottom.

A spectator rushed the stage during the PGL Major Copenhagen Counter-Strike 2 tournament today.

In videos posted on social media, a man can be seen running down an elevated walkway toward the main stage, where the trophy sits on a pedestal in front of the players. After arriving on stage, he puts his arms up as if to celebrate accomplishing his goal. A group of apparent security personnel restrain him, and then tumble with him into the trophy stand. The trophy falls on them, and in one zoomed-in video can be seen breaking into multiple pieces:

Solve today’s Wordle as quick as you like with our help. Speed straight through to victory with a cheeky peek at today’s answer, or sit and spend some time with a clue for the March 29 (1014) game. Every way, every day, we’ve got your Wordle game covered. 

Well, that didn’t go to plan. When the three yellow letters I uncovered on my first go all turned green on the next, I thought I was in for a quick game. Instead, it turned out to be an increasingly fraught rummage around the dictionary as every guess proved to be wrong in a different but equally unhelpful way. I’m relieved I got there in the end, but I wish it hadn’t taken every guess to get today’s Wordle answer.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Friday, March 29

This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to the epic new Dawntrail expansion for Final Fantasy XIV. With new lands, cities, jobs, dungeons, threats, gear, activities, and more on offer, there’s never been a better time to heed the call of adventure in this long-running and respected RPG. PC Gamer talks directly with Final Fantasy XIV’s director and producer, Naoki Yoshida, to get the authoritative inside scoop and learn what Dawntrail’s exciting new arc has in store for gamers.

If that wasn’t enough epic fantasy adventure for one issue, we’ve also got a huge feature on Shadow of the Erdtree in this mag, too. From an authoritative lore deepdive, to detailed trailer analysis, and onto an exploration of all the confirmed new content PC gamers are soon going to get their hands on, this is the ultimate guide to Elden Ring’s hot new expansion.

This issue is stuffed with top previews, too, including a thrilling first look at much-wanted new medieval build, fight and rule-’em-up, Manor Lords, as well as Breachway, Dungeonborne, Plane Accident, Age of Mythology: Retold, Kingmakers and SpellRogue. While over in this issue’s reviews section the PC Gamer team delivers authoritative verdicts on Pacific Drive, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, Skull & Bones, Helldivers 2, Balatro, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Last Epoch, and Persona 3 Reload, among other games.

All that plus a group test on Nvidia’s new 40-series Super GPUs, an augment-filled reinstall of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, an action-filled continuation of the space adventures of astro-rogue Jett Johnson in a new Starfield diary entry, a detailed look at Rainbow Six Siege’s game-changing new update, a fascinating deep dive into the deckbuilding phenomenon of the moment, Balatro, a comprehensive guide to catching them all in Palworld as well as how to build you own base optimally, a secret level explainer on how developers implement difficult curves in games, the latest dispatch from The Spy, and much more too. Enjoy the issue!

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