More than a thousand people developed Grand Theft Auto V, an action-
adventure video game. Rockstar Games released the game on 17 September
2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 18 November 2014 for PlayStation
4 and Xbox One, and on 14 April 2015 for Microsoft Windows, as the
fifteenth entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. Development began soon
after Grand Theft Auto IV's release and was led by Rockstar North's core
360-person team, who considered the game a spiritual successor to many
of their previous projects like Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3. Its
release date, though subject to several delays, was widely anticipated.
Much of the development time was spent creating the game's open world,
modelled on Southern California and Los Angeles. For the first time in
the series, players control three protagonists throughout the single-
player mode; the team found that these changes altered the gameplay and
narrative devices. The game features an original score, composed over
several years by a team of five music producers. Its re-release added a
first-person view option along with the traditional third-person view.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Grand_Theft_Auto_V>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1683:
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society
describing "animalcules" – the first known description of protozoa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek>
1862:
American Civil War: Almost 23,000 total casualties were
suffered at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where
Confederate and Union troops fought to a tactical stalemate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam>
1914:
World War I: The Franco-British and German armies began the
"Race to the Sea", reciprocal attempts to envelop the northern flank of
the opposing army through northern France and Belgium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Sea>
1970:
King Hussein ordered the Jordanian Army to oust Palestinian
fedayeen from Jordan in what became known as Black September.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September>
2011:
Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a
protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New
York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
animadvert:
1. (intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
3. (intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to
criticise or punish.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animadvert>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What is the use of reading the common news of the day, the tragic
deaths and abuses of daily living, when for over half a lifetime we have
known that they must have occurred just as they have occurred given the
conditions that cause them? There is no light in it. It is trivial fill-
gap. We know the plane will crash, the train be derailed. And we know
why. No one cares, no one can care. We get the news and discount it, we
are quite right in doing so. It is trivial. But the haunted news I get
from some obscure patient's eyes is not trivial. It is profound.
--William Carlos Williams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams>
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