Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is an adventure video game developed by Chunsoft. The second installment in the Zero Escape series, it was first released on February 16, 2012, for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. The story follows the player character Sigma, a man who is abducted and forced along with eight other individuals to play the life-or-death Nonary Game. The characters begin to unravel its secrets and its true purpose. Virtue's Last Reward was developed as a result of the unexpected critical success that its predecessor, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, received in North America. Game director Kotaro Uchikoshi wrote the script, which was localized for North America by Aksys Games, and for Europe by Rising Star Games. Although critics were divided in their opinions of the escape-the-room sections, they gave Virtue's Last Reward positive reviews, especially for its story and characters. Nevertheless, the game was a commercial failure in Japan, which led to the temporary cancellation of its sequel. Development eventually resumed, and Zero Time Dilemma was released in 2016.

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1270:

Livonian Crusade: In the Battle of Karuse, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved a decisive victory over the Livonian Order on the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karuse

1862:

American Civil War: Union victory in the Battle of Fort Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional Surrender". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson

1923:

Howard Carter, the English Egyptologist and archaeologist, unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun (mask pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun

1943:

Second World War: Norwegian commandos destroyed a factory to prevent the German nuclear weapon project from acquiring heavy water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage

1961:

The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art, was chartered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuSable_Museum_of_African_American_History

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pro domino: (law) In the capacity of a master or an owner; having dominion over a person, property, or a right. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pro_domino

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Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.   --George F. Kennan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_F._Kennan