Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie, published by Microsoft Game Studios, and released on September 14, 2010, for the Xbox 360 video game console. Players control Noble Six, a member of an elite supersoldier squad, when the human world known as Reach is attacked in the year 2552 by the alien Covenant. Developed after the 2007 release of Halo 3, the game is a prequel to the original Halo game trilogy. Reach‍ '​s music was composed by longtime Halo composers Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori, who aimed for a more somber sound to match the story. Reach was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 in Los Angeles. It grossed $200 million on its launch day, setting a new record for the franchise. The game sold well in most territories, moving more than three million units its first month in North America. Critical reception was positive, and generally praised the game's graphics and sound, but the plot and characters were less positively received.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1066:

William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England

1542:

Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the first European to travel along the coast of California, landed at what is now the city of San Diego. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Cabrillo

1891:

Railway workers in Montevideo founded the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club, which later changed its name to Peñarol, now Uruguay's most successful football club. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1arol

1963:

Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaam!

1996:

Former President of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah was tortured and murdered by the Taliban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Najibullah

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

pleonasm: 1. (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording. 2. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleonasm

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.   --Confucius (孔子 · Kongzi) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius