Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is a first-person shooter video game set in the Halo universe. An enhanced remake of Halo: Combat Evolved, the game was released on November 15, 2011—the 10th anniversary of the original title's launch—for Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console, and re- released as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the Xbox One in 2014. It was developed by 343 Industries, Saber Interactive, and Certain Affinity. Anniversary's enhancements include a high-definition visual overhaul, support for cooperative and multiplayer gameplay via the Xbox Live online service, new and remastered sound effects and music, and extras such as achievements and hidden in-game collectibles. The game is the first in the series to include Kinect support. Critical reception to Anniversary was generally positive, with praise for the updated graphics and ability to toggle between the remastered and original visuals. Complaints included technical glitches, faults with the original game's level design, and the multiplayer mode's implementation.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1529:

The Siege of Vienna ended as the Austrians repelled the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna

1888:

George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received a letter allegedly from Jack the Ripper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter

1917:

Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari

1997:

In Nevada's Black Rock Desert, Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green set the first supersonic land speed record in the jet-propelled car ThrustSSC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThrustSSC

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chasma: 1. (astronomy, geology) A long, narrow, steep-sided depression on a planet (often other than Earth), a moon, or another body in the Solar System. 2. (astronomy, obsolete, rare) An aurora. 3. Obsolete form of chasm. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chasma

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.   --John Kenneth Galbraith https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith