God of War: Chains of Olympus is a 2008 third-person action-adventure video game for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). Loosely based on Greek mythology, it is the fourth installment in the God of War series and a prequel to the original God of War. The player controls Kratos, a Spartan warrior who serves the Olympian Gods. Kratos is instructed to find the Sun God Helios, as the Dream God Morpheus has caused many of the gods to slumber in Helios' absence. Morpheus, the Queen of the Underworld Persephone and the Titan Atlas plan to destroy Mount Olympus. The gameplay is very similar to that of its predecessors, with a focus on combo-based combat. The game features quick time events that require the player to complete game controller actions in a timed sequence to defeat stronger enemies and bosses. The player can use magical attacks, and the game also features puzzles and platforming elements. Debuting at No. 5 on the North American charts, Chains of Olympus achieved the highest composite score for a PSP title from Metacritic and GameRankings. Considered one of the best games on the platform, it has won several awards and had sold 3.2 million copies worldwide by June 2012.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1713:

With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure one of his daughters would inherit the Habsburg lands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

1775:

The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord

1809:

War of the Fifth Coalition: The French won a hard-fought victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from the field of battle that evening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen

1943:

The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, sparking the first mass uprising (burning buildings pictured) in Poland against the German occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

1989:

A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

debauch: 1. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce. 2. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/debauch

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Of greatest significance to me has been the insight that I attained as a fundamental understanding from all of my LSD experiments: what one commonly takes as "the reality," including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous — that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.   --Albert Hofmann‎‎ https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann