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On this day in 2022

• EVENTS
• Australian town of Eugowra experiences extreme flash flooding, with 2 deaths and 150 air-lifted to safety amid one-in-5,000-year flood event.
• Grammy Award winner Roberta Flack reveals she is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and is no longer able to sing.
• GAMING: PC
• Flat Eye for PC is released. Flat Eye is a perfectly balanced blend of management simulation and narrative-driven gameplay.As the manager of the world's premier gas and technological hub, it's your job to keep your station running smoothly, complete daily objectives tasked by the world's first true AI, and develop new technology to improve (or curse) the future of humanity.
• Pentiment for PC is released. Step into a living illustrated world inspired by illuminated manuscripts and printed woodcuts in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps. Choose your backgrounds, impact a changing world, and see the consequences of your decisions in this narrative adventure.
• POLITICS
• US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in person for the first time as national leaders at a G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

On this day in 2021

• EVENTS
• Attack on a military police outpost near a gold mine in Inata, northern Burkina Faso, kills at least 53, prompting three days of national mourning.
• DEATHS
• Bertie Auld, Scottish soccer midfielder (3 caps; Celtic, Birmingham City) and manager (Partick Thistle, Hibernian, Hamilton Academical), who died from dementia complications at 83.
• Virginio Pizzali, Italian track cyclist (Olympic gold team pursuit 1956), who died at 86.
• TV SERIES
• Yellowjackets: Season 1 is released. 25 years after decisions made by a high school girls soccer team to survive when a plane crash stranded them in the wilderness has not been forgotten or forgiven in this drama created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson.
• Mayor of Kingstown: Season 1 is released. Prisons are the lifeblood of the small Michigan town and brothers Mike and Mitch McLusky (Jeremy Renner and Kyle Chandler) try to keep the peace by using their influence on the police, the prison, and politicians in this drama series co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon.

On this day in 2020

• EVENTS
• Record global daily total of 660,905 COVID-19 pandemic cases declared to the WHO, with total known infections over 54 million.
• DEATHS
• Des O'Connor, British television presenter, singer and comedian, who died at 88.

On this day in 2019

• GAMING: PC
• Bee Simulator for PC is released. Live the big adventure of a small bee! Explore a world brimming with life in which you collect pollen, defy dangerous wasps and save your hive. Play with others in three game modes, including co-op and PvP on split screen.
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition for PC is released. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new and fully remastered soundtrack, and brand-new content, “The Last Khans” with 3 new campaigns and 4 new civilizations.
• Stormland for PC is released. The Tempest shattered your android body. Now you must journey through an ever-changing cloudscape to augment yourself and save your friends. Explore an expansive world with complete freedombound up cliffs, glide across chasms, and fly through the slipstream with velocity. Detonate explosives, harness electricity, and wield makeshift weapons to overcome titanium sentries and monolithic guardians. Play single-player, or explore forgotten ruins together.It's time to reclaim your world.Key Features:* Move with velocity. Explore the open world with exhilarating freedom. Fly through the slipstream, kick up a cloud ramp, launch up to a cliff, and glide back down with all-new Touch mechanics.* Discover a changing otherworld. The Tempest rearranges the Stormland to reveal new challengesand new playgrounds of movement, combat, and scavenging. Your Satellite watches from above to guide you to the best upgrades.* Join a community of androids. Weather the storm together. Link up to the satellite, join up for Stormland raids, and collaborate on shared missions for the benefit of android gardeners everywhere.* Fight with freeform style. Equip makeshift weapons to overcome the Tempest's army of synthetic troops and mutated creatures. Augment your android abilities to cloak your body, manifest shields, and harness electricity. Find new tech, build yourself up, and discover just how far you can push past the limits of your design.
• Terminator: Resistance for PC is released. This story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, nearly 30 years after Judgement Day, and stars a brand new hero in the Terminator universe, Jacob Rivers, a soldier in the Resistance led by John Connor. Despite the fact that Jacob is just a lowly private, he'll soon discover that he's been specifically targeted by the latest threat from Skynet and marked for termination! Skynet may be destined to lose the war, but at what cost to Jacob? Experience the events leading up to the decisive final battle for the fate of mankind in the war against the machines!Features:* Choose what kind of action hero you want to be! Equip an epic arsenal of weaponry to run and gun or sneak and snipe through sprawling environments! The world isn't as forgiving as it used to be, so you'll need to find resources to help you out. If you can't find what you're looking for, then you better make it yourself.* Change the fate of mankind! Protect a motley crew of survivors, each with their own motivations and backstories. The actions you take throughout the game will impact their survival and change the ending you get.* Resist against the machines! Fight against a selection of iconic enemies from the films, including the T-800, as well as a host of enemies that are brand new to the Terminator universe!
• Sparklite for PC is released. Sparklite is an action-adventure set in the whimsical and ever-changing land of Geodia. Battle foes in top-down action using an arsenal of gadgets, guns, and gear. Explore dangerous corners of the procedurally generated world, take down titans of the mining industry, and harness the power of Sparklite.
• GAMING: XBOX ONE
• Tracks: The Train Set Game for Xbox One is released. Create colorful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, and even ride in your train.

On this day in 2018

• EVENTS
• Attempt to move 720,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar from Bangladesh refugee camps amid international criticism. They refuse to go..
• Archaeologists announce discovery of ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, supposedly founded by captives from Trojan War.
• Astronomers announce discovery of Super-Earth planet (3.2x bigger than Earth) orbiting red dwarf Barnard's star,6 light years away.
• Edward Hopper's painting "Chop Suey" sells $92 million, a record for the artist at auction in New York.
• New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young Award; his 10 wins fewest ever by a Cy Young winner in a non-strike-shortened season; MLB-leading 1.70 ERA; 29 consecutive start streak longest in MLB history.
• Jewellery that belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette is auctioned off in Geneva, after not being seen for 200 years.
• Large impact crater,31 km wide, from iron meteorite identified under Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland.
• WEDDINGS
• Bollywood actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh marry at Lake Como, Italy in first of two ceremonies.
• DEATHS
• Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, American actress (Little House On The Prairie - "Harriet Oleson"), who died at 93.
• MOVIES: NOT RATED
• Shoah: Four Sisters is released. Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the late director’s life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war’s end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia; Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland; Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow; and Hannah Marton from Cluj, or Kolozsvár, in Transylvania. Survivors of unimaginable Nazi horrors during the Holocaust, they tell their individual stories and become crucial witnesses to the barbarism they experienced. Each possesses a vivid intelligence and a commitment to candor that make their accounts of what they suffered through both searing and unforgettable. Four Sisters now arrives on the screen to remind audiences of the immense courage it took for these witnesses to return to their past as they share their deeply moving personal tragedies. The frankness of their words, their intensely scrutinized faces, and their bravery as they revisit unimaginable experiences will make them lasting presences in the moral universe of younger generations. [Cohen Media Group]
• GAMING: XBOX ONE
• Fallout 76 for Xbox One is released. Fallout 76 is the online prequel where every surviving human is a real person. Work together – or not – to survive. Under the threat of nuclear annihilation, you’ll experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Reclamation Day,2102. 25 years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers – chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America. Play alone or band together as you explore, quest, build and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Multiplayer finally comes to the epic open-world RPGs of Bethesda Game Studios. Create your character with the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system and forge your own path in a new and untamed wasteland with hundreds of locations. Whether you journey alone or with friends, a new and unique Fallout adventure awaits. Use the all-new Construction and Assembly Mobile Platform (C.A.M.P.) to build and craft anywhere in the world. Your C.A.M.P. will provide much-needed shelter, supplies and safety. You can even set up shop to trade goods with other survivors. But beware, not everyone will be quite so neighborly. [Bethesda]
• POLITICS
• UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet approves draft plan for country's exit from the European Union (Brexit).

On this day in 2017

• DEATHS
• Otto Wanz, Wrestler.
• TV SERIES
• Future Man: Season 1 is released. After attaining the top score on his favorite video game, janitor Josh Futturman (Josh Hutcherson) is told by soldiers from the future, Tiger and Wolf (Eliza Coupe and Derek Wilson), he must travel through time to stop an invasion from ending humanity in this sci-fi action comedy from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
• GAMING: PC
• Hyakki Castle for PC is released. A fantastical world based on ancient Japanese folklore. Hyakki Castle, a mysterious castle built in a land of exile. This castle is brimming with mysteries and fantasy... Slay the Lord of Hyakki Castle! New strategies and puzzle solving by dividing parties...
• GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 for PlayStation 4 is released. With a completely original branching storyline, LEGO® Marvel Super Heroes 2 introduces amazing new gameplay features, including the ability for characters to manipulate time and a four-player competitive Super Hero battling mode. With a huge array of brand new characters from the Marvel Universe, including old favorites in new guises, this game is sure to thrill both LEGO and Marvel fans, as well as newcomers to the series.
• L.A. Noire for PlayStation 4 is released. Amid the post-war boom of Hollywood's Golden Age, Cole Phelps, an LAPD detective is thrown headfirst into a city drowning in its own success. Corruption is rampant, the drug trade is exploding, and murder rates are at an all-time high. In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, racketeering conspiracies and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department to uncover a secret that could shake the city to its rotten core. Using groundbreaking new animation technology that captures every nuance of an actor's facial performance in astonishing detail, L.A. Noire is a violent crime thriller that blends breathtaking action with true detective work to deliver an unprecedented interactive experience. Search for clues, chase down suspects and interrogate witnesses as you struggle to find the truth in a city where everyone has something to hide.
• Outcast: Second Contact for PlayStation 4 is released. Outcast – Second Contact is the complete remake of the cult title which sparked the open world, action-adventure genre. Take off on an exploration of Adelpha, an alien world as beautiful as it is dangerous, where your heroic journey places the fate of two worlds in your hands.
• Road Rage for PlayStation 4 is released. Road Rage is an over-the-top, knock-down-drag-out motorcycle combat game that tests your skill on a range of badass bikes. Race, fight, and hustle your way through the ranks of an insane outlaw motorcycle gang.
• Cat Quest for PlayStation 4 is released. Cat Quest is an open world RPG set in the pawsome world of cats! In search of your catnapped sister you pounce into the massive continent of Felingard -- a world crafted in the style of overworld maps of yore and purrrring with cat-tastic characters, stories, and puns!Leap into a grand adventure in purrsuit of the evil Drakoth and your catnapped sister! Explore Felingard's huge overworld map, risk life and limb delving into dungeons for epic loot, and lend a paw to a furry cast of characters in a flurry of side quests.
• Demon Gaze II for PlayStation 4 is released. Demon Synergy: As the Demon Gazer, turn foes to allies and power them up using the Trance Demon Mode, or fuse with them using the Demon's Cross.
• Star Wars Battlefront II for PlayStation 4 is released. Star Wars Battlefront II allows players to experience the untold story of an Imperial elite special forces soldier in an all-new single player campaign. In epic multiplayer battles, players pilot a First Order TIE fighter through intense dogfights in space, and play as ground troopers or iconic heroes and villains, such as Yoda and Darth Maul, across all three Star Wars eras. Featuring new characters created by Motive in close partnership with the story group at Lucasfilm, the Star Wars Battlefront II single player campaign delivers a new story to the Star Wars universe. Taking place in the 30 years between the destruction of Death Star II and through the rise of the First Order, the single player story introduces Iden Versio, the leader of Inferno Squad, an elite special forces unit of the Galactic Empire, who are equally lethal on the ground and in space. In addition to Iden, players also encounter and play as other iconic Star Wars heroes and villains like Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren during the campaign. [Electronic Arts]
• GAMING: PLAYSTATION VITA
• Tokyo Tattoo Girls for PlayStation Vita is released. Enter the world of Tokyo Tattoo Girls, where you will select a companion girl and battle the Syndicate by conquering the 23 Wards of Tokyo. Power up your companion with gorgeous Japanese tattoos and unleash her true power.
• GAMING: SWITCH
• Batman: The Telltale Series for Switch is released. Enter the fractured pysche of Bruce Wayne in this dark and violent new story from the award-winning creators of The Walking Dead - A Telltale Games Series. Batman - The Telltale Series comes to retail as a Season Pass Disc, which includes Episode One, and grants access to the remaining four episodes in the season as they become available to download. The Season Pass Disc will give you access to a total of 5 episodes as they become available.
• Rocket League for Switch is released. Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade soccer and driving with rewarding physics-based gameplay. Take to the pitch for a fully-featured offline season mode, multiple game types, casual and competitive online matches, and special "Mutators"that let you change the rules entirely. Express yourself with one of the deepest customization systems around and battle opponents on other platforms with cross-network play.
• RiME for Switch is released. The story of a boy who must use his wits and ingenuity to survive - and ultimately escape from - a mysterious island and a terrible curse.An end, and a new beginning.A strange island with a sinister secret, and an open-world adventure with a difference. As a boy who finds he is key to solving a series of ancient puzzles, you'll use an enigmatic artefact to manipulate your environment and even time itself.Thanks to the innovative control offered by the DUALSHOCK 4 controller, you'll find that light, sound and touch are all essential in your bid to escape the island.
• Lumo for Switch is released. Witness the rebirth of a genre in Lumo a classic isometric adventure with a modern twist for gamers young and old alike! As a contemporary take on the long-lost isometric platform genre, Lumo can be enjoyed by anyone looking for an absorbing, challenging and rewarding adventure. But for those who lived through the golden age of videogames the 80s and early 90s or know about the games and culture from that time, layer upon layer of nods, winks and touches to those times help build upon an experience thats as heart-warming as it is exciting!
• Ittle Dew 2+ for Switch is released. Fantasy and reality collide on an island of enchantment. Sassy adventurer Ittle and her flying fox friend Tippsie are back for their greatest adventure ever! Lost on a remote island and armed with a magical map, our heroes make new friends and bitter enemies as they search for valuable loot. Help them find the eight scattered pieces of the raft that could be their ticket home!
• POLITICS
• Zimbabwe Army seizes key sites in capital Harare following tensions over Robert Mugabe's dismissal of vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

On this day in 2016

• EVENTS
• US talk show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" hosted by Tucker Carlson premieres on Fox.
• " Moana" animated Disney film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker with voices by Auli'i Cravalho and The Rock premieres in Los Angeles.
• 7.8 earthquake cuts off town of Kaikoura, New Zealand, raising sea bed by 4m, and killing 2 people.
• BIRTHS
• Addelyn Skube, Family Member, born in United States.
• Maria Isabella De Padilla, Family Member, born in Philippines.
• DEATHS
• Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (5 x Grand Slam doubles champion; Davis Cup 1946,48,49), who died of a stroke at 102.
• Gwen Ifill, journalist and writer,1st African American woman to host US public affairs program, who died of cancer at 61.
• Holly Dunn, American country singer (Daddy's Hands), who died of cancer at 59.
• TV SERIES
• Mars: Season 1 is released. Produced by Ron Howard, the hybrid miniseries features a scripted drama set in 2033 as six astronauts set out on the first mission to Mars with real documentary interviews with experts such as NASA administrator Charles Bolden, X-Prize Foundation head Peter Diamandis, Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and The Martian author Andy Weir.

On this day in 2015

• EVENTS
• A pair of white boots worn by Elvis Presley during his famous '68 Comeback TV Special performance were bought by a UK collector for £29,500, ($44,500). Elvis had worn the size-11 Verde boots while singing 'If I Can Dream', two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, the lyrics included quotes from the civil rights leader..
• DEATHS
• Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler (WCW/AWA), who died at 80.
• Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part), who died at 89.
• TV SERIES
• Spotless: Season 1 is released. Co-created by Ed McCardie and Corinne Marrinan, Jean Bastiere (Marc-André Grondin) runs a crime scene cleaning business in London when his estranged brother, Martin (Denis Ménochet), returns with secrets from Jean's past and a dead body that brings mob boss Nelson Clay (Brendan Coyle) into their lives.
• POLITICS
• Second Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast by CBS, held in Des Moines, Iowa.

On this day in 2014

• EVENTS
• American harness racing trainer/driver Dave Palone sets the world record for wins when he drive Missy Tap Tina to the winner's circle for his 16,754th career victory.
• BIRTHS
• Lee Si-Ahn, Family Member, born in South Korea.
• DEATHS
• Glen Larson, American television producer & writer, who died from esophageal cancer at 77.
• Diem Brown, Reality Star.
• MOVIES: NOT RATED
• Butter on the Latch is released. Sarah (Sarah Small) leaves the city for the apparent safety of a Balkan music camp hidden deep in the California woods. Once there she reconnects with a former friend, Isolde (Isolde Chae-Lawrence) and does some hilariously foul-mouthed female bonding – until she finds herself growing attracted to a hunky male camper, Steph (Charlie Hewson). Gradually her already-frayed grip on reality starts to unravel. [Cinelicious Pictures]
• Bad Turn Worse is released. Three Texas teens hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
• Miss Meadows is released. Miss Meadows (Katie Holmes) is a sweet and proper elementary school teacher whose perfect manners and pretty floral dresses hide a dark secret: when she’s not teaching at the local elementary school or tending to her garden, she’s moonlighting as a gun-toting vigilante.
• Rosewater is released. In June 2009, Maziar Bahari (Gael García Bernal) returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Moussavi, who was the prime challenger to controversial incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. When Moussavi’s supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory declaration hours before the polls closed on election day, Bahari endured great personal risk by submitting camera footage of the unfolding street riots to the BBC. Bahari was soon arrested by Revolutionary Guard police and was tortured and interrogate over the next 118 days. [Open Road Films]
• Penance is released. On a sleepy small town playground, a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim’s unhinged mother Asako (Kyoko Koizumi) demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing. Growing up in the shadow of this tragic debt, each of the four girls cultivates a warped survival mechanism – avoidance, desperation, fear and obsession. [Music Box Films]
• Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is released. Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet) hires Akin (Joe Swanberg) to work on his Kentucky farm for the summer, but Akin's attraction to Jeremiah's young daughter, Samantha (Sophie Traub), leads to violence.
• The Circle is released. Zurich: 1958. The bashful teacher Ernst Ostertag and the German cabaret artist Robi Rapp get to know one another in the Swiss underground organization called Der Kreis (The Circle). As the two dissimilar men defend their love, they witness the heyday and decline of this Europe-wide pioneering organization for gay emancipation. [Wolfe Releasing]
• MOVIES: PG
• Red Army is released. Red Army is about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Filmmaker Gabe Polsky tells an extraordinary human story from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the friendships, the betrayals, and the personal dramas, which led to his transformation from national hero to political enemy. The film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union. [Sony Pictures Classics]
• Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas is released. Kirk Cameron is enjoying sister’s annual Christmas party until he realizes he needs to help out his brother-in-law Christian, who is chock full of no-fun Scroogery. Kirk realizes it’s his job to grab Christian by his seasonal sweater and show him Christ where Christ has always been: smack dab at the center of all the Christmas hoopla.
• MOVIES: PG13
• Beyond the Lights is released. The pressures of fame have music superstar Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) on the edge - until she meets Kaz Nicol (Nate Parker), a young cop and aspiring politician who has been assigned to her detail. Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them who urge them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance. But it is ultimately Kaz's love that gives Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.
• Dumb and Dumber To is released. 20 years after Lloyd and Harry set out on their first adventure, they hit the road in search of Harry's long lost daughter.
• MOVIES: R
• Foxcatcher is released. Foxcatcher tells the true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Steve Carell) that led to murder. [Sony Pictures Classics]
• The Homesman is released. When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. Together, they traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
• Wolves is released. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden Richards (Lucas Till) wanders, lost, without purpose... Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe, who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge to hunt down the truths of his history. But in the end, who's really hunting whom?
• GAMING: PC
• This War of Mine for PC is released. In This War of Mine, the focus is shifted away from military operations portrayed in most games. Instead, it is a dark survival game where players control a gaggle of civilians attempting to stay alive in a besieged city. During the day snipers outside stop you from leaving your refuge, offering players time to craft, trade, upgrade their shelter, feed and cure their people. At night they must scavenge nearby areas in search for food, medicines, weapons and other useful items.
• Lords of Xulima for PC is released. An RPG set on the fictional continent of Xulima, where Gods and man once walked the land together. Features over one hundred hours of gameplay.
• GAMING: XBOX ONE
• Pure Pool for Xbox One is released. The DNA option attempts to play the game like you do.
• POLITICS
• Jane Byrne, American politician (50th Mayor of Chicago), who died at 81.

On this day in 2013

• EVENTS
• Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger is sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes.
• TV SERIES
• Ground Floor: Season 1 is released. This workplace comedy from Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence reunites him with star John C. McGinley, while the main action revolves around a Romeo and Juliet-style inter-office romance between a banker (Skylar Astin) and a woman who works in the lower-level maintenance department (Briga Heelan). Rory Scovel, Alexis Knapp, and James Earl also star.
• GAMING: 3DS
• Senran Kagura Burst for 3DS is released. A little violent, a little sexy, and a ton of fun!Enter a world filled with beautiful ninja destined to break down the barriers between good and evil.Play two different storylines, each with its own perspective. The girls of Hanz& #333; believe they fight on the side of righteousness, but are their methods always right? The girls of Hebijo are mercenaries to the highest bidders, but what if their motives aren't as clear as they seem?-Crush your enemies with your favorite buxom ninja girl using fast punches, mid-air flight sequences, combos, super attacks, revealing cut-scenes and sexy Ninja Arts.-Dozens of costumes expose endless combinations!-Choose from 72 different costume sets such as school uniforms, swimsuits and ninja gear, along with hairstyles that can be changed, mixed and matched to provide an endless array of looks.
• GAMING: PC
• Pandora: First Contact for PC is released. Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale, inspired by Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.In the future, factions have risen up from opportunities and ideologies independent of governments. Private corporations and religious movements have started wars over greed, ideology and power. Many have died and many lands lay in ruin. Planet Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain.Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world many light-years away. The most powerful factions have gathered their best men and women to send on a long journey to Pandora.Far from desolate, the earth-like planet has been found to host a plethora of indigenous life forms. While the gigantic monstrosities inland and at the oceans seem relatively calm, human-sized bugs and fungus are threatening to stop mankind's expansion.As the various factions strive to take control, each will research and develop numerous new technologies, discovering new weapons and industry, whilst opening trade agreements and forging alliances with other factions to gain a foothold. As they spread, they will discover ancient ruins from alien civilizations that will grant them advantages over their rivals.
• POLITICS
• Paul McCartney posted a letter on his website calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release 30 Greenpeace activists whom Russian authorities arrested during a protest over Arctic oil drilling in September. All the activists involved had their charges dropped in late December of this year..