Last week Big Download was the first web site to report that Runic Games' popular downloadable action-RPG Torchlight would be coming to retail stores via Encore Software in early January. Today we got the official press release from Encore announcing the move. It also revealed the game's specific ship date to stores (January 5).

However they also slipped in an extra note in their press release that will make a certain portion of the population happy. Encore states that they plan to release a Mac version of Torchlight sometime in 2010 as well. Considering that it sometimes takes years to get a native Mac port of a PC game, this news is welcome indeed.