The Capcom Five is a set of five video games released between 2003 and 2005 by Capcom for the Nintendo GameCube, all overseen by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. Nintendo and Capcom had enjoyed a close relationship during the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo eras, and the announcement of the five new games was initially seen as an important show of third-party developer support for the GameCube. P.N.03, a futuristic third-person shooter, Viewtiful Joe, a side- scrolling action-platformer, Dead Phoenix, a shoot 'em up, and Resident Evil 4, a survival horror third-person shooter, were developed by Capcom's Production Studio 4; Killer7, an action-adventure game with first-person shooter elements, was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture. Viewtiful Joe and Killer7 sold modestly, the former in spite of critical acclaim and the latter owing to polarized reviews, but Killer7 gained a significant cult following, effectively launching the career of creator Suda51. Resident Evil 4 was the runaway success of the five, though its GameCube sales were undercut by the announcement of a Sony PlayStation 2 version, in an early sign of Nintendo's failure to attract and hold third-party support during the GameCube era.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1829:

William Austin Burt was awarded a patent for the typographer, the first practical typewriting machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographer_(typewriter)

1914:

Austria-Hungary presented Serbia with an ultimatum to allow them to investigate the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that Serbia would ultimately reject, leading to World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Crisis

1940:

US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issued a declaration that the US would not recognize the Soviet Union's annexation of the Baltic states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welles_Declaration

1995:

Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the twentieth century, was discovered by two independent observers, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, at a great distance from the Sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp

2012:

A solar storm of similar intensity to the Carrington Event, which caused one of the largest geomagnetic storms ever recorded, erupted from the Sun and missed the Earth by a small margin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

levity: 1. Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity. 2. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy. 3. (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/levity

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds. All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity. All men must escape at times from the deadly rhythm of their private thoughts. It is part of the process of life among thinking beings.   --Raymond Chandler https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler