BioShock 2: Minerva's Den is a single-player downloadable content (DLC)
campaign for the 2010 first-person shooter game BioShock 2, developed
by 2K Marin and published by 2K Games. The player assumes the role of
Subject Sigma, an armored and genetically modified human, or "Big
Daddy"; Sigma must travel through Minerva's Den, the technological hub
of the underwater city of Rapture, to download a schematic of the city's
supercomputer. Minerva's Den was created by a small team (some members
pictured) within 2K Marin led by Steve Gaynor. They decided upon a
small, personal story about identity and free will, which explores an
unseen part of Rapture. Minerva's Den was initially released for
PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in August 2010, and was later
released and reissued on other platforms. It was well received by
critics, who praised its story, characters, and gameplay; reviewers,
including those writing for Kotaku and Paste, considered it one of the
best video game expansions of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock_2:_Minerva%27s_Den>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1844:
The last known pair of great auks (one pictured), the only
modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, were killed
on Eldey, Iceland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk>
1968:
American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded
visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City
studio, The Factory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas>
1973:
At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air,
killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Paris_Air_Show_Tu-144_crash>
1979:
Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian
forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%E2%80%93Tanzania_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pedal pushers:
(originally US) Women's casual trousers, usually fairly form-fitting,
that end at the calves.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedal_pushers>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more
important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
--Sydney Smith
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith>
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