Resident Evil 5 is a third-person shooter video game developed and
published by Capcom, and produced by Jun Takeuchi (pictured). It was
released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles on March 5, 2009. The
plot involves an investigation of a terrorist threat by counter-
terrorist agents Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar in Kijuju, a fictional
region of Africa. It is the seventh major installment in the Resident
Evil series, and the first designed for two-player cooperative gameplay.
Critics described the game as closer to the action genre than the
survival horror of other games in the series. Resident Evil 5 had a
mostly positive reception, although it was criticized for problems with
its controls. The game was re-released for Nvidia Shield, PlayStation 4
and Xbox One in 2016. As of September 2018, it had sold over 7.4 million
units, making it Capcom's second best-selling game and the best-selling
game of the Resident Evil franchise.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_5>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1770:
The Boston Massacre (engraving shown): British soldiers fired
into a crowd in Boston, Massachusetts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre>
1811:
Peninsular War: In the Battle of Barrosa, an Anglo-Spanish-
Portuguese force trying to lift the Siege of Cádiz defeated a French
attack but could not break the siege itself.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barrosa>
1966:
BOAC Flight 911 disintegrated and crashed near Mount Fuji
shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport, killing all
113 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911>
1975:
Computer hackers in Silicon Valley held the first meeting of
the Homebrew Computer Club, whose members would go on to have great
influence on the development of the personal computer.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dekulakize:
(transitive, historical) Usually with reference to the Soviet Union and
communist Eastern Europe: to dispossess (a kulak, that is, a prosperous
peasant) of his or her property and/or rights.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dekulakize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into
the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
--Penn Jillette
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Penn_Jillette>