Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by
Rocksteady Studios and released by Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles,
and Microsoft Windows. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman and
written by Paul Dini with Paul Crocker and Sefton Hill, it is the sequel
to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. Incarcerated in Arkham
City, a massive new super-prison enclosing the decaying urban slums of
fictional Gotham City, Batman must uncover the secret behind the
sinister scheme "Protocol 10", orchestrated by the facility's warden,
Hugo Strange. The game's leading characters are predominantly voiced by
actors from the DC Animated Universe, with Kevin Conroy reprising his
role as Batman and Mark Hamill as the Joker. Using third-person
perspective, the game focuses on Batman's combat and stealth abilities,
detective skills, and gadgets for combat and exploration. The game was
praised for its narrative, characters and world designs and for Batman's
combat and navigation abilities. It was tied for the highest-rated video
game of 2011 according to review aggregator Metacritic, and was the
recipient of several awards.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Arkham_City>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
447:
An earthquake destroyed large sections of the Walls of
Constantinople.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Constantinople>
1142:
Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by
the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was
executed by the Song government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Fei>
1868:
Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial
forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst
for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toba%E2%80%93Fushimi>
1945:
The Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,500 prisoners left behind
by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance
pictured) in Oświęcim, Poland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp>
1980:
With the assistance of Canadian government officials, six
American diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis
escaped to Zurich, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cop on:
(Ireland, informal, idiomatic) Common sense.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cop_on>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Quakers have an excellent approach to thinking through
difficult problems, where a number of intelligent and responsible people
must work together. They meet as equals, and anyone who has an idea
speaks up. There are no parliamentary procedures and no coercion from
the Chair. They continue the discussion until unanimity is reached. I
want you guys to do that. Get in a room with no phones and leave orders
that you are not to be disturbed. And sit there until you can deal with
each other as individuals…
--Hyman G. Rickover
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover>