In a sentence which may never have been written before and which I will surely be challenged about when I try to get into heaven, the official artbook for Assassin's Creed Shadows has leaked on a hentai website.
In its entirety. Originally spotted by enterprising Reddit users, who were no doubt browsing the website in question for precisely this kind of content, the official Art of Assassin's Creed Shadows book sprang up without warning on the e-hentai archive (no I'm not linking it) some time in the past few days.
It's since been yanked down, but I was able to verify the book's presence on the website before it could be removed, setting me up for some very cool conversations with PC Gamer's IT department.
If this is your first time on the internet, hentai—derived from the Japanese word for 'pervert'—is a genre of cartoon pornography usually done in a style you'd normally associate with anime.
The website on which the AC artbook appeared is something of a treasure trove of the stuff, although the book itself contained relatively little red-hot erotic action, which has really dampened my enthusiasm for the final product.