Gravity Bone is a freeware first-person adventure video game developed by Brendon Chung through his studio, Blendo Games, and released on August 28, 2008. The game employs a modified version of id Software's id Tech 2 engine—originally used for Quake 2—and incorporates music originally performed by Xavier Cugat for films by director Wong Kar-wai. Four incarnations of the game were produced during its one-year development; the first featured more first-person shooter elements than the released version. Subsequent versions included more spy-oriented gameplay. Gravity Bone received critical acclaim from video game journalists. It was called "a pleasure to experience" by Charles Onyett from IGN, and was compared to games such as Team Fortress 2 and Portal. The game was praised for its visual style, atmosphere, cohesive story, and ability to quickly catch the player's interest. It received the "Best Arthouse Game" award in Game Tunnel's Special Awards of 2008. A sequel released in 2012, Thirty Flights of Loving, was also critically acclaimed, mostly for its novel nonlinear storytelling.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1622:

An Anglo-Persian force combined to take over the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Ormuz_(1622)

1889:

Over 50,000 people rushed to claim a piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km2) in the Unassigned Lands, the present-day US state of Oklahoma, entirely founding the brand-new Oklahoma City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rush_of_1889

1911:

Tsinghua University ("The Old Gate" pictured), one of the leading universities in mainland China, was founded, funded by an unexpected surplus in indemnities paid by the Qing Dynasty to the United States as a result of the Boxer Rebellion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University

1948:

Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Haifa_(1948)

2000:

In a predawn raid, US Immigration and Naturalization Service agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida, and returned him to his Cuban father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez_affair

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

sanctum: A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sanctum

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

How can U just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just 2 demanding Maybe I'm just like my father, 2 bold Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like When doves cry.     I believe that through discipline, though not through discipline alone, we can achieve serenity, and a certain small but precious measure of the freedom from the accidents of incarnation, and charity, and that detachment which preserves the world which it renounces.   --Robert Oppenheimer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer