Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars is a crossover fighting game featuring characters from Capcom's video game franchises and from various anime series by Tatsunoko Production. The game was released in Japan for arcades and the Wii video game console in December 2008. It was released for the Wii in North America, Japan, and Europe in January 2010, featuring additional characters and an online mode. Players engage in combat with a team of two characters or with a single giant character and attempt to knock out their opponents. It is the seventh Capcom- designed installment in their Vs. fighting game series, which includes the Marvel vs. Capcom and Capcom vs. SNK series, and the first to be fully rendered in 3D graphics. The game is designed around a simplified three-button attack system, which was inspired by the simplistic control schemes commonly used by both the Vs. series and the Wii. The game received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its approachable gameplay for newcomers and depth for veteran players. However, reviewers had mixed experiences with its online component, and found Arcade mode lacking in replay value.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

393:

Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaimed his nine-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorius_(emperor)

1570:

James Hamilton shot and killed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, in the first recorded assassination using a firearm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart,_1st_Earl_of_Moray

1789:

Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would be the home of the future Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University

1945:

German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered the beginning of Operation Hannibal, which became one of the largest emergency evacuations by sea in history, with over 1 million people transferred over 15 weeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hannibal

1997:

Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

blueberrying: The act of gathering blueberries. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blueberrying

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

A cultural inheritance may be acquired between dusk and dawn, and many have been so acquired. But the new "culture" was an inheritance of darkness, wherein "simpleton" meant the same thing as "citizen" meant the same thing as "slave." The monks waited. It mattered not at all to them that the knowledge they saved was useless, that much of it was not really knowledge now… empty of content, its subject matter long since gone. Still, such knowledge had a symbolic structure that was peculiar to itself, and at least the symbol-interplay could be observed. To observe the way a knowledge-system is knit together is to learn at least a minimum knowledge-of-knowledge, until someday — someday, or some century — an Integrator would come, and things would be fitted together again. So time mattered not at all. The Memorabilia was there, and it was given to them by duty to preserve, and preserve it they would if the darkness in the world lasted ten more centuries, or even ten thousand years...   --Walter M. Miller, Jr. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_M._Miller,_Jr.