The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive division 2K Games. Oblivion was released on March 20, 2006, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360, and later for mobile phones and PlayStation 3. In the main storyline, the player character thwarts the fanatical Mythic Dawn cult from opening the gates to a realm called Oblivion. The player can travel anywhere in the game world at any time, develop the character's skills, and ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely. The graphics were designed with an improved Havok physics engine, high dynamic range lighting, and procedural content generation tools to generate terrain. The Radiant A.I. system manages the complex behaviors of the non-player characters (NPCs). The game features the music of award-winning composer Jeremy Soule. Overall, Oblivion has been successful both commercially and critically, winning industry and publication awards. It was praised for its graphics, expansive game world, and fully voiced, schedule-driven NPCs. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 235: Maximinus Thrax succeeded to the throne of the Roman Empire, a so-called barracks emperor who gained power by virtue of his command of the army. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximinus_Thrax> 1600: Five advisers to Polish–Swedish king Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed, effectively ending his reign in Sweden. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%C3%B6ping_Bloodbath> 1815: After escaping from exile in Elba, Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning the period known as the "Hundred Days". <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days> 1944: World War II: Four thousand U.S. Marines made a landing on Emirau Island in the Bismarck Archipelago to develop an airbase as part of Operation Cartwheel. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_on_Emirau> 1993: The Troubles: The second of two bomb attacks by the Provisional IRA in Warrington, England, killed two children. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: mandil: (chiefly Persia, obsolete) A turban; cloth used to make a turban. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mandil> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   His mother told him "Someday you will be a man, And you will be the leader of a big old band. Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun go down. Maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'."   --Chuck Berry <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry>