Rockstar San Diego is an American video game developer known for the Red
Dead, Midnight Club, and Smuggler's Run franchises. Founded by Diego
Angel in January 1984 as Angel Studios, it was initially a work-for-hire
animation studio, working on films such as The Lawnmower Man (1992) and
the music video for the song "Kiss That Frog" (1993). The company
shifted towards video game development in the 1990s. In its early years
in the sector, it was responsible for the Nintendo 64 port of Resident
Evil 2 (1999) and cooperated with Nintendo on multiple projects. The
studio's work on Midtown Madness (1999) attracted the attention of
Rockstar Games, which worked with the studio on the Midnight Club and
Smuggler's Run series, both first released in 2000. Take-Two Interactive
acquired Angel Studios for Rockstar Games in November 2002, renaming the
studio Rockstar San Diego. Under Rockstar Games, the studio developed
Red Dead Revolver (2004), further Midnight Club games, and Red Dead
Redemption (2010).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_San_Diego>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1890:
London's City and South London Railway, the first deep-level
underground railway in the world, officially opened, running a distance
of 3.2 mi (5.1 km) between the City of London and Stockwell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_and_South_London_Railway>
1921:
The remains of an unknown soldier were buried with an eternal
flame at the Altare della Patria in Rome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_Monument>
1944:
Second World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a
major operation to clear German troops from the province of North
Brabant in the Netherlands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pheasant>
2016:
The Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change came into effect.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
othering:
(philosophy, politics) gerund of other: the process of perceiving or
portraying someone or something as essentially alien or different.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/othering>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am a peace man. I haven't got any use for wars and there is no
more humor in 'em than there is reason for 'em.
--Will Rogers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Will_Rogers>
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