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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved_Anniversary>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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>
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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>
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