God of War: Chains of Olympus is a 2008 third-person action-adventure
video game for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). Loosely based on Greek
mythology, it is the fourth installment in the God of War series and a
prequel to the original God of War. The player controls Kratos, a
Spartan warrior who serves the Olympian Gods. Kratos is instructed to
find the Sun God Helios, as the Dream God Morpheus has caused many of
the gods to slumber in Helios' absence. Morpheus, the Queen of the
Underworld Persephone and the Titan Atlas plan to destroy Mount Olympus.
The gameplay is very similar to that of its predecessors, with a focus
on combo-based combat. The game features quick time events that require
the player to complete game controller actions in a timed sequence to
defeat stronger enemies and bosses. The player can use magical attacks,
and the game also features puzzles and platforming elements. Debuting at
No. 5 on the North American charts, Chains of Olympus achieved the
highest composite score for a PSP title from Metacritic and
GameRankings. Considered one of the best games on the platform, it has
won several awards and had sold 3.2 million copies worldwide by
June 2012.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War:_Chains_of_Olympus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1713:
With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI
issued the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure one of his daughters would
inherit the Habsburg lands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor>
1775:
The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of
Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord>
1809:
War of the Fifth Coalition: The French won a hard-fought
victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from
the field of battle that evening.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen>
1943:
The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round
up the remaining Jews, sparking the first mass uprising (burning
buildings pictured) in Poland against the German occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising>
1989:
A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa
exploded, killing 47 sailors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
debauch:
1. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
2. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/debauch>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of greatest significance to me has been the insight that I
attained as a fundamental understanding from all of my LSD experiments:
what one commonly takes as "the reality," including the reality of one's
own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather
something that is ambiguous — that there is not only one, but that
there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness
of the ego.
--Albert Hofmann
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann>