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Today in the World Countries
- Independence Day is being celebrated in Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
- People born on this day are Scorpio as their zodiac sign.
Today in History
On this day in 2023
- EVENTS
- Alliance of rebel armies begin Operation 1027, an offensive against the ruling military junta in Myanmar.
- Taylor Swift releases her “1989 (Taylor’s Version), ” album, beating her own Spotify record for most streams in a day.
- DEATHS
- Viktor Mamatov, Russian biathlete (Olympic gold USSR 4 × 7.5k relay 1968,72; World C'ship gold 20k individual 1967,4 × 7.5k relay 1969,70,71), who died at 86.
- MOVIES: R
- The Killer is released. After a fateful near-miss, an assassin (Michael Fassbender) battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal. [Netflix]
- ALBUMS
- 1989 (Taylor's Version) was released by Taylor Swift. The re-recording of Taylor Swift's 2014 album 1989 includes five unreleased tracks.
- The Silver Cord was released by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The second full-length studio release in 2023 from Australian rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is influenced by electronic music. The standard release has a runtime of over 32 minutes while the Extended Mix release is nearly 90 minutes.
- Action Adventure was released by DJ Shadow. The seventh full-length studio release from electronic producer DJ Shadow is mostly instrumental and features no guests.
- Danse Macabre was released by Duran Duran. The latest full-length release from Duran Duran features covers, new versions of their own songs and three new songs as well as contributions from Warren Cuccurullo, Måneskin's Victoria De Angelis, Nile Rodgers, and Andy Taylor.
- Chronicles of a Diamond was released by Black Pumas. The second full-length release from Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada as Black Pumas features mixing by Shawn Everett.
- God Games was released by The Kills. The sixth full-length studio release from rock duo The Kills was produced by Paul Epworth and features guest appearances by the Compton Kidz Club Choir.
- History Books was released by The Gaslight Anthem. The first full-length studio release from The Gaslight Anthem since 2014's Get Hurt was produced by Peter Katis and features a guest appearance by Bruce Springsteen.
- Jenny From Thebes was released by The Mountain Goats. The latest full-length release from The Mountain Goats is a rock opera featuring the character Jenny (who has appeared in songs on 2001's Jam Eater Blues,2002's All Hail West Texas and 2012's Transcendental Youth).
- Madres was released by Sofia Kourtesis. The debut full-length studio release from Berlin-based electronic producer Sofia Kourtesis features a guest appearance by Manu Chao.
On this day in 2022
- EVENTS
- Elon Musk takes ownership and control of Twitter, immediately fires 4 executives.
- DEATHS
- Arshad Sharif, Journalist.
- Bahaa Taher, Egyptian writer (1st winner International award for Arabic Fiction 2008), who died at 87.
- GAMING: PC
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure for PC is released. Iconic PlayStation hero Sackboy bursts back into breathtaking action with a huge, fun and frantic 3D multiplayer platforming adventure and a whole new edgy sackitude!The dastardly Vex (a near-mythical being born of chaos and fear, no less) kidnaps Sackboy's friends and forces them to build his Topsy Turver. Set off alone or with your bravest friends on a whirlwind of capers across the snowiest mountains, the leafiest jungles, the wettest underwater realms and the, uh, spaciest of space colonies.Take down Vex. Save the sack-folk. Save the day. It's time to fulfil your destiny, Sackboy. From woolly wonderkid and hessian hero rise our Knitted Knight.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
- Signalis for PlayStation 4 is released. Awaken from slumber and explore a surreal retrotech world as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost partner and her lost dreams.Discover terrifying secrets, challenging puzzles, and nightmarish creatures in a tense and melancholic experience of cosmic dread and classic psychological survival horror.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 5
- Star Ocean: The Divine Force for PlayStation 5 is released. STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE features an original story with two individual narratives and many playable characters, a unique combat system, and the freedom to soar in the skies and explore planets. Featuring a blend of sci-fi and fantasy, this fresh Action RPG has challenging yet thrilling battle experiences, with high-speed movement in 360-degree!Meet Raymond as he crashes onto an unfamiliar planet from his spaceship and is immediately attacked by some unfriendly local wildlife. Coming to his rescue is Laeticia, the crown princess of the Kingdom of Aucerius.Together, those two protagonists will challenge the fate of the Kingdom and their choices will have repercussions all over the galaxies...
- Saturnalia for PlayStation 5 is released. A game inspired and heavily influenced by the folklore of Sardinia, Italy (a region rich with unique traditions and culture) where you play as four characters, experiencing a deeply connected storyline that ties back to the haunting traditions of an ancient village.Die, and watch the village reconfigure itself into a new form. Solve puzzles and open shortcuts to new areas with tools and items you find along the way, unlocking every piece of the story with different characters, each with its own power and suited for another aspect of exploration and investigation.With a limited supply of matches to light your way and darkness encroaching, can you find your way through the fog to reveal the truth? Or will you be engulfed by the secrets this town doesn't want you to know?
- Arkanoid: Eternal Battle for PlayStation 5 is released. Discover or re-discover, the emblematic block breaker game in a fully modernized version! Classic elements from the franchise will definitely make a comeback, with a brand-new look, new rules, as well as new effects, bonuses and features!For the first time ever, players will be able to compete against each other, offering an online experience thanks to the Eternal Battle mode, the main new feature of this game, bringing the arcade experience to a whole new level. This Battle Royale mode offers the possibility to compete among 25 players online.
- GAMING: SWITCH
- Paradigm Paradox for Switch is released. The year 25XX. A world where mankind can only live in isolated colonies.The protagonist, a student at the academy, was bored with the drudgery of everyday life.A day-to-day untouched by gossip about "Heroes"and "Vermin, "the enemy of mankind, or the good-looking guys at the academy.One night, she slipped out of the dormitory and fell upon colony-invading Vermin, landing herself in a dangerous situation! However, four girls appeared and repelled the Vermin with miraculous abilities.In the aftermath of the event, the protagonist decides to work as a Hero, leading a busy life as both a student and champion of justice. But why is it that she has more opportunities to talk to the good-looking guys everyone is talking about?What is their (the girls' / guys') secret? And what is the enemy's true identity?
- GAMING: XBOX SERIES X
- Gunfire Reborn for Xbox Series X is released. Gunfire Reborn is an Adventure level-based game featured with FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heros with different abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use randomly dropped weapons to adventure in random levels. This game can be played by single player, or Co-op up to four.In this game, players' experience in each level is random. Every restart means brand new experience. You will meet different heroes' talents, weapons and items, different checkpoints and combat rhythms in different levels. Game Features:* FPS+Roguelite+RPG combined gameplay, construct diverse Build through death cycle for differnt experience * Elaborate, yet randomized stage experience * Over 100 different items and various weapons * Many heroes and multiple game plus with different game mechanism * Unique art style* Co-op level-based adventure
On this day in 2021
- EVENTS
- More than one million people in southern Madagascar are on the brink of famine according to Amnesty International, who urges world to prove relief.
- DEATHS
- Sandy Carmichael MBE, Scottish rugby union prop (50 caps; British and Irish Lions 1971,74; West of Scotland, Glasgow District), who died at 77.
- MOVIES: PG13
- Passing is released. Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, Passing tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and PASSING becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.
- GAMING: PC
- Super Robot Wars 30 for PC is released. The battle fire of steel ignites after 30 years"Super Robot Wars 30, a title commemorating the 30th anniversary of the series, is coming to Nintendo Switch/PlayStation®4/STEAM®.Super Robot Wars is a simulation RPG where robots of various animations come together to fight against a common enemy.In this original story, robots from various animations such as ""Mazinger Z: Infinity, ""Super Electromagnetic Robot Combattler V, ""Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, "and "Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re; surrection"transcend the boundaries of their works and assemble in one place.
- Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water for PC is released. The Fatal Frame series lives again!Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is comprised of three interconnected stories that converge to uncover the truth behind a recent string of tragic deaths in a forest marred by a history of suicides. As one of three people with the power of the Camera Obscura and the ability to see the shadows of those spirited away, youll explore the ruins of an eerie inn, a shrine filled with life-size dolls, and a lake full of dead priestesses. Each shadowy location is connected by a stream of water flowing throughout the mountain, and this once holy water is tied to the darkest mystery of allthe history of death and darkness on Mt. Hikami.Features:* Survive this horrifying new entry in the Fatal Frame series* Explore sinister locales like an underground cave for human sacrifices and a shrine for life-sized dolls* Use the Wii U GamePad controller as your Camera Obscurayour only defense against fatal ghosts* Mt. Hikami is coursing with inexplicably dangerous water; stay dry or die* Investigate and stay alive on the deadly Mt. Hikami
- SPORTS
- Cleveland Guardians men's roller derby team files lawsuit seeking to block MLB baseball Cleveland Indians name change.
- Bernd Nickel, German soccer attacking midfielder (1 cap West Germany,1972 Olympics; Eintracht Frankfurt 426 games,141 goals), who died at 72.
- Bob Ferry, American basketball forward (St. Louis Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Baltimore Bullets) and executive (GM Washington Bullets; NBA Exec of the Year 1979,82), who died at 84.
On this day in 2020
- EVENTS
- A record 69.5 million Americans have already voted, a week before election day,50.4% of 2016 total vote.
- Leader of the Nxivm sex cult Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking, racketeering, fraud and other crimes.
- US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sealing a conservative majority.
- WHO confirms Europe is in the midst of a 2nd COVID-19 pandemic wave with cases rising rapidly,30% in a week, deaths rising 40%.
- TV SERIES
- Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine is released. The comedy special from the comedian who is known for her Trump lip-sync videos features guest appearances from Fred Armisen, Jon Hamm, Megan Thee Stallion, Helen Mirren, Maya Rudolph, Winona Ryder, Ben Stiller, and Marisa Tomei.
- GAMING: PC
- Carto for PC is released. Carto is a chill adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-shifting puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of new friends, and guide Carto on her journey home.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV for PlayStation 4 is released. The Erebonian Empire is on the brink of all out war! Taking place shortly after the ending of Trails of Cold Steel III, the heroes of Class VII find themselves against the full force of the Empire in an attempt to stop its path of total domination. Further, the hero of the Erebonian Civil War and Class VII's instructor, Rean Schwarzer, has gone missing. Now, the students of Class VII, old and new, must unite with heroes from all over the continent to create the only chance the world has to be spared from total destruction.
- GAMING: SWITCH
- Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - New 'n' Tasty for Switch is released. Rescue your fellow meat factory slaves in this nostalgic, classic platformer with the latest immersive graphics and design.Find your destinyOnce a happy floor waxer in Oddworld's biggest meat processing plant, Abe stumbled across his boss's secret plan to turn the factory's slave labour force into the latest in the RuptureFarms Tasty Treats line of novelty meat snacks.Abe now has to save his own skin from the grinders even if simply escaping the flesh farm is only the start of his Oddysee. Trigger-happy hunting parties, carnivorous sacred beasts, ancient temple traps and even a return to his former workplace await Abe on his journey to discover his people's heritage.
- GAMING: XBOX ONE
- Ghostrunner for Xbox One is released. Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience of fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells a story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.
- Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues for Xbox One is released. CHOOSE A SIDE. EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY. THE FIGHT IS IN YOUR HANDS NOW.Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with co-op multiplayer, deep move sets, combos, progression, real-time character swaps, ultimate attacks, and much more! 34 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament, the rivalry of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence continues. The fight is in your hands now!Two-Fold Storyline Featuring an all-new storyline filled with unique cutscenes and dialog choose to take control of Daniel and his students at Miyagi-Do Karate through a storyline campaign. Or select their rivals, Johnny Lawrence and his disciples at Cobra Kai to play their side of the story. Completing both sides of the campaign unveils an ultimate ending.Live the Cobra Kai UniverseExplore Los Angeles in the Cobra Kai universe across 28 missions filled with characters and enemies from the show.Character Swap SystemChoose your Dojo then seamlessly swap between your favorite characters from the story.RPG-Like Dojo ProgressionMaster 40 unique skills and upgrade your characters' stats as you karate your way through enemies.
- SPORTS
- Organizers of 96th East-West Shrine Bowl college football all-star game, benefiting Shriners Hospitals for Children, announce cancellation of game scheduled for January 23,2021, in St. Petersburg, Florida, due to COVID-19 pandemic issues.The.
On this day in 2019
- EVENTS
- Scottish singer, songwriter Lewis Capaldi achieved his first No.1 single in the US with ‘Someone You Loved’ after the track had spent 23 weeks in the US charts before reaching the top. The singer celebrated by painting his face in the style of the Stars and Stripes..
- Wes Studi is the first Native American actor to receive an Oscar, a honorary award for career achievement.
- DEATHS
- Grandpa Kitchen, YouTube Star.
- TV SERIES
- Mrs. Fletcher: Season 1 is released. 40-something Eve Fletcher (Kathryn Hahn) and her college freshman son Brendan (Jackson White) discover new things about themselves as they begin a new chapter in their lives apart from each other in this dramedy based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name.
- POLITICS
- John Conyers, American politician (Rep-D-MI,1965-2017), who died at 90.
- California Governor Gavin Newson declares state of emergency with multiple fires across the state, including Sonomoa County's Kincade Fire burning over 30,000 acres.
On this day in 2018
- EVENTS
- EPL club Leicester City’s billionaire Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash in the carpark outside the club’s King Power Stadium following 1-1 draw against West Ham United.
- Australian 7-year old mare Winx wins unprecedented fourth consecutive Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in Melbourne; her record 29th-straight win and her 22nd Group 1 racing success.
- Gunman shoots and kills 11 people and injures six at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in an anti-Semitic attack.
- DEATHS
- Murray Khouri, New Zealand classical clarinet player (Australia Ensemble), writer, and broadcaster, who died at 77.
- Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, sports team owner (Leicester City FC), who died in helicopter crash at 60.
- SPORTS
- LA Dodgers beat the Boston Red Sox,3-2 in Game 3 of baseball's World Series; a record 46 players used by both teams; Boston go on to win 4 games to 1.
On this day in 2017
- EVENTS
- First operation to separate conjoined twins joined at the head in India completed in New Delhi.
- Catalan parliament meets and unilaterally declares independence from Spain.
- BIRTHS
- Mirko Wiebe, Instagram Star, born in Argentina.
- DEATHS
- Ladislav Kubík, Czech-American composer (Aulos; Subterranean River) and educator (Florida State University,1990-2017), who died at 71.
- Jack Levy, English mechanical engineer, who died at 91.
- MOVIES: NOT RATED
- Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold is released. Across more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, Joan Didion has been our premier chronicler of the ebb and flow of America’s cultural and political tides with observations on her personal – and our own – upheavals, downturns, life changes, and states of mind. In the intimate, extraordinary documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, actor and director Griffin Dunne unearths a treasure trove of archival footage and talks at length to his “Aunt Joan” about the eras she covered and the eventful life she’s lived, including partying with Janis Joplin in a house full of L.A. rockers; hanging in a recording studio with Jim Morrison; and cooking dinner for one of Charles Manson’s women for a magazine story. Didion guides us through the sleek literati scene of New York in the 1950s and early ’60s, when she wrote for Vogue; her return to her home state of California for two turbulent decades; the writing of her seminal books, including Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It as It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, and The White Album; her film scripts, including The Panic in Needle Park; her view of 1980s and ’90s political personalities; and the meeting of minds that was her long marriage to writer John Gregory Dunne. She reflects on writing about her reckoning with grief after Dunne’s death, in The Year of Magical Thinking (winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction), and the death of their daughter Quintana Roo, in Blue Nights. With commentary from friends and collaborators including Vanessa Redgrave, Harrison Ford, Anna Wintour, David Hare, Calvin Trillin, Hilton Als, and Susanna Moore, the most crucial voice belongs to Didion, one of the most influential American writers alive today. [Netflix]
- Maya Dardel is released. Maya Dardel (Lena Olin), an internationally respected poet and novelist, announces on National Public Radio that she intends to end her life and that young male writers may compete to become the executor of her estate. They are challenged intellectually, emotionally, erotically, until one of them begins to fathom Maya's end game.
- Mr. Roosevelt is released. Emily Martin is a struggling 20-something who moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy after graduating college in Austin, Texas. When a loved one falls sick, she returns to Austin and runs into her ex-boyfriend, as well as his amazing and intimidating new girlfriend. Low on funds and stuck in Texas for the weekend, Emily stays with the two of them in her old, but miraculously remodeled house. She quickly finds her way into the circle of a local female badass who shows Emily a good time and tries to keep her from spinning out as she goes toe-to-toe with the new girlfriend, all the ways her ex has changed, and ultimately, her own choices and guilt about leaving the past behind.
- Bill Nye: Science Guy is released. Bill Nye is a man on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world. The former star of the popular kids show "Bill Nye The Science Guy"is now the CEO of The Planetary Society, an organization founded by Bill's mentor Carl Sagan, where he's launching a solar propelled spacecraft into the cosmos and advocating for the importance of science, research, and discovery in public life. With intimate and exclusive access —as well as plenty of wonder and whimsy — this behind-the-scenes portrait of Nye follows him as he takes off his Science Guy lab coat and takes on those who deny climate change, evolution, and a science-based world view.
- Félicité is released. Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year-old son falls victim to an accident. To save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa – a world of music and dreams where she’ll cross paths with Tabu.
- Brimstone & Glory is released. The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, upand-comers create their own rowdy, lofi combustibles, and dozens of teams build larger-than- life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow up in all directions. More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, making the festival more than revelry for revelry’s sake. It is a celebration that anchors a way of life built around a generations-old, homegrown business of making fireworks by hand. For the people of Tultepec, the National Pyrotechnic Festival is explosive celebration, unrestrained delight and real peril.
- The Square is released. Christian is the respected curator of a contemporary art museum, a divorced but devoted father of two who drives an electric car and supports good causes. His next show is The Square, an installation which invites passersby to altruism, reminding them of their role as responsible fellow human beings. But sometimes, it is difficult to live up to your own ideals: Christian’s foolish response to the theft of his phone drags him into shameful situations. Meanwhile, the museum's PR agency has created an unexpected campaign for The Square. The response is overblown and sends Christian, as well as the museum, into an existential crisis.
- The Divine Order is released. In 1971 Switzerland, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women are still denied the right to vote. When unassuming and dutiful housewife Nora (Marie Leuenberger) is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town’s suffragette movement. Her newfound celebrity brings humiliation, threats, and the potential end to her marriage, but, refusing to back down, she convinces the women in her village to go on strike...and makes a few startling discoveries about her own liberation.
- MOVIES: R
- Thank You for Your Service is released. A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they’ve left the battlefield.
- Suburbicon is released. Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns…the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices. This is Suburbicon.
- Novitiate is released. Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, Novitiate is about a young girl's first initiation with love, in this case with God. Raised by a non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threatening the course of nuns’ lives. As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God. Cathleen finds herself struggling with issues of faith, sexuality, and recent changes in life of the Church. [Sony Pictures Classics]
- All I See Is You is released. Gina (Blake Lively) and husband James (Jason Clarke) have an almost perfect marriage. After being blinded as a child in a nearly fatal car crash, Gina exclusively depends on James to feel and “see” the world around her, and it appears only to solidify their extremely passionate relationship. She envisions the world in her own vivid imagination with help from James' descriptions. While the two enjoy a colorful existence living in Bangkok, their life and relationship are upended after Gina receives a corneal transplant & regains her sight. With her restored vision, Gina experiences the world with a new sense of wonder & independence which James finds threatening. It is only when Gina suddenly begins to lose her sight again that she finally realizes the disturbing reality of their marriage and their lives.
- Jigsaw is released. Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one man: John Kramer. But how can this be? The man known as Jigsaw has been dead for over a decade.
- TV SERIES
- Stranger Things: Season 2 is released. A year later and the town of Hawkins, Indiana is still shaken from the events of last year, but a larger danger looms.
- ALBUMS
- Screen Memories was released by John Maus. The first new studio release in six years for the experimental pop artist was written and recorded in his Minnesota home.
- Pacific Daydream was released by Weezer. The 11th full-length studio release for the alternative rock band led by Rivers Cuomo features production from Jonny Coffer, Toby Gad, J.R. Rotem, and Butch Walker.
- Plunge was released by Fever Ray. The second full-length solo release for Karin Dreijer is her first in over eight years.
- Prince of Tears was released by Baxter Dury. The fifth full-length release for British indie artist was co-produced with Ash Workman and features guest appearances from Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods and Rose Elinor Dougall.
- The Canyon was released by The Used. The seventh full-length studio release for the Utah rock band was influenced by the death of Rob McCracken's friend and was produced by Ross Robinson.
- The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone was released by Lee Ann Womack. The ninth full-length studio release for the country singer-songwriter was produced by her husband, Frank Liddell.
- Turn Out the Lights was released by Julien Baker. The second full-length studio release for the Memphis singer-songwriter was self-produced and mixed by Craig Silvey.
- World Wide Funk was released by Bootsy Collins. The first full-length studio release for the funk artist in six years features guest appearances from Stanley Clarke, Manou Gallo, Alissia Benveniste, Big Daddy Kane, BlvckSeeds, Buckethead, Dennis Chambers, Chuck D, Tyshawn Colquitt, Dr. G., MC Eiht, Dru Down, Doug E. Fresh, Eric Gales, Justin Johnson, Mr. Talkbox, Musiq Soulchild, Snowbunny, October London, Kali Uchis, World-Wide-Funkdrive, Victor Wooten, Bernie Worrell, and X-Zact.
- New Shapes of Life was released by Martin Carr. The latest solo release for the former member of The Boo Radley was mixed by Greg Haver and Clint Murphy.
- Meaning of Life was released by Kelly Clarkson. The soul-influenced eighth full-length studio release for the pop artist is her first on the Atlantic label and features production from Greg Kurstin, The Monarch, Maureen "Mozella"McDonald, Jesse Shatkin, and Mick Schultz.
- Milano was released by Daniele Luppi. The debut collaboration between Daniele Luppi and Parquet Courts features vocals from Karen O and was inspired by the youth/art subculture in Milan in the 1980s.
- Beach House III was released by Ty Dolla $ign. The second full-length studio release for the rapper features guest appearances from 24hrs, Future, Lauren Jauregui, Tory Lanez, Swae Lee, Lil Wayne, MadeinTYO, Damian Marley, Skrillex, The-Dream, Pharrell Williams and Wiz Khalifa.
- Belief System was released by Special Request. The 23-track release from British electronic producer Paul Woolford was recorded over a period of three years.
- 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time was released by Big K.R.I.T.. The third full-length studio release for the Mississippi rapper features guest appearances from Bilal, Robert Glasper, CeeLo Green, Keyon Harrold, Joi, Lloyd, Jill Scott, Sleepy Brown, T.I., Burniss Earl Travis II, UKG, and Kenneth Whalum.
- Face Your Fear was released by Curtis Harding. The second full-length release for the Atlanta-based R&B/soul artist was produced with Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen.
- GAMING: PC
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus for PC is released. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is the highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, Wolfenstein: The New Order developed by the award-winning studio MachineGames. An exhilarating adventure brought to life by the industry-leading id Tech 6, Wolfenstein II sends players to Nazi-controlled America on a mission to recruit the boldest resistance leaders left. Fight the Nazis in iconic American locations, equip an arsenal of badass guns, and unleash new abilities to blast your way through legions of Nazi soldiers in this definitive first-person shooter. America,1961. The Nazis maintain their stranglehold on the world. You are BJ Blazkowicz, aka Terror-Billy, member of the Resistance, scourge of the Nazi empire, and humanitys last hope for liberty. Only you have the guts, guns, and gumption to return stateside, kill every Nazi in sight, and spark the second American Revolution.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
- Assassin's Creed Origins for PlayStation 4 is released. Set in mysterious Ancient Egypt, Assassin’s Creed Origins is a new beginning. Experience a new way to fight while exploring the Great Pyramids and hidden tombs across the country of Ancient Egypt, and encounter many memorable storylines along your journey. And discover the origin story of the Assassin's Brotherhood. [Ubisoft]
- GAMING: SWITCH
- Super Mario Odyssey for Switch is released. New Evolution of Mario Sandbox-Style Gameplay. Mario embarks on a new journey through unknown worlds, running and jumping through huge 3D worlds in the first sandbox-style Mario game since Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. Set sail between expansive worlds aboard an airship, and perform all-new actions, such as throwing Mario's cap.
On this day in 2016
- EVENTS
- A letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen explaining why he was returning his MBE was found tucked in a record sleeve from a £10 car boot haul. The anonymous owner took the document to a valuation day at The Beatles Story in Liverpool and discovered it was worth about £60,000. Lennon had returned the MBE in protest at Britain's involvement in a civil war..
- BIRTHS
- Valentina Jonas, Family Member, born in United States.
- DEATHS
- Pentti Siimes, Finnish actor (Miriam), who died at 87.
- TV SERIES
- Pure Genius: Season 1 is released. Silicon Valley tech billionaire James Bell (Augustus Prew) recruits surgeon Dr. Walter Wallace (Dermot Mulroney) to be his Chief of Staff at a his new cutting edge hospital in this medical drama created by Jason Katims.
- The Great Indoors: Season 1 is released. Adventure reporter Jack (Joel McHale) is given a desk job with several 20-somethings in the new digital department for the outdoors magazine he works for by his boss/magazine founder (Stephen Fry).
- GAMING: PC
- Through the Woods for PC is released. Through the Woods is a third-person Norse horror adventure set in a forest on the western shores of Norway that tells the story of a mother and her missing son.
- Orwell for PC is released. Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
- Weeping Doll for PlayStation 4 is released. An ordinary family. A beautiful home. But, who’s crying? Search the home, scour every room and scrutinize over every detail to piece together the story that has been kept locked away… [Playstation.com]
On this day in 2015
- DEATHS
- Betsy Drake, French-born American actress and writer (Every Girl Should be Married), who died at 92.
- TV SERIES
- Wicked City: Season 1 is released. Set in 1982, a murder of a girl by a man (Ed Westwick) she met on the Sunset Strip brings together amateur journalist Karen McClaren (Taissa Farmiga) and Los Angeles detectives Jack Roth (Jeremy Sisto) and Paco Contreras (Gabriel Luna) as they seek the killer.
- GAMING: PC
- The Park for PC is released. The Park is a single-player horror experience developed by Funcom, set against the backdrop of an amusement park where a dark and sinister secret is just waiting to be uncovered.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
- Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition for PlayStation 4 is released. Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition is a much lauded Role-Playing-Game that blends deep customization and humor with dynamic turn based combat. Either in online co-op, split-screen co-op on your TV, or even alone, take advantage of a classless RPG system to create your heroes and conquer the evils of Rivellon!Embark upon a journey with up to three companions as you bend the very fabric of time, where what seems like the case of a simple murder unravels into hours of quests facing fiendish foes, magical polymorphs, and dastardly bosses. As a Source Hunter, master the elements and use the environment to your advantage in dynamic combats mixing weather and magic to explode, poison, electrify, freeze and burn your enemies!
- Driveclub Bikes for PlayStation 4 is released. Create events from scratch to ride day or night, and play with the fully customizable weather conditions to make every event unique. Race the worlds best superbikes from Yamaha, Ducati, Kawasaki, Honda, Bimota, BMW and more. 78 tracks in locations from Canada, Chile, Japan, Norway, Scotland & India. Form a Club with your mates and race online in challenges & multiplayer matches to earn big rewards. Go it alone in the offline Tour campaign with 42 events including Races, Time Trials, Skill challenges & Championship events. Send challenges to your friends & rivals to compete for glory. Customize your bikes & racing leathers. Choose from simulation or arcade camera views: first person rider, handlebar, dash, front wheel, near chase & far chase
- MX vs. ATV Supercross Encore for PlayStation 4 is released. Rip, jump and scrub your way to victory with over 35 tracks in this vastly extended version. Only the Encore edition features the brand new Rhythm Racing mode, extra outdoor Nationals tracks, and exclusive Waypoint races in open world maps.
- Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 2: Assembly Required for PlayStation 4 is released. Minecraft: Story Mode is like a playable TV show based on the Minecraft game, where YOU are the star, and your choices and actions decide how the story is told. You assume the role of Jesse, and you and your friends are thrown into an adventure to save the world. While visiting EnderCon, your crew stumbles on something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and your only hope is to track down the “Order of the Stone”, a fabled group of adventurers who slew the legendary Ender Dragon. But where are they? In a race against time, you will travel across the over-world, through the Nether, to The End, and beyond. [Telltale Games]
- GAMING: XBOX ONE
- Halo 5: Guardians for Xbox One is released. Peace has been devastated as colony worlds are unexpectedly attacked. What's more, when humanity's greatest hero goes missing, a new Spartan is assigned the task of hunting the Master Chief and solving a mystery that threatens the whole of the galaxy.
- WWE 2K16 for Xbox One is released. Offering more than 120 unique playable characters, including cover Superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin alongside Seth Rollins, Daniel Bryan, Dean Ambrose, Bad News Barrett, Paige and Finn Bálor, WWE 2K16 includes the largest roster in WWE games history. The roster contains a combination of current WWE Superstars and Divas, emerging NXT talent, WWE Hall of Famers and WWE alumni from multiple eras.
On this day in 2014
- EVENTS
- The Pet Shop Boys' 'Always On My Mind' was voted the top cover version of all time in a BBC Music vote. The song, written by John Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, was first made famous by Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley in 1972. Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' 'Hurt' came in second place, followed by The Stranglers' version of Dionne Warwick's 'Walk On By'. Jimi Hendrix's take on Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower' came fourth and Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' completed the top five..
- The Last Ship, Sting's musical about shipbuilding in north-east England, opened on Broadway. The former frontman with The Police described watching the opening night as "an out-of-body experience". Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Blondie's Deborah Harry were among the first night audience at the Neil Simon Theatre..
- " Montevallo" debut album by Sam Hunt is released (American Country Countdown Award Digital Album of the Year 2016, Billboard Album of the Year 2015).
- TV SERIES
- Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown is released. Produced by Mick Jagger and directed by Alex Gibney, the documentary about the Godfather of Soul features footage from the 1964 concert film, "T.A.M.I Show, "as well as interviews from former band members.
- ALBUMS
- Live: Uurop VIII-XII/Places in Sun & Winter, Son was released by The Fall. The 12th live release for the band contains tracks from its European tours between 2008-2012.
- LP3 was released by Restorations. The third full-length release for the Philadelphia rock band was produced by Jonathan Low.
- Home Everywhere was released by Medicine. This is the second release for the Los Angeles-based rock band since they returned from disbanding in 1995.
- ...Honor Is All We Know was released by Rancid. The eighth full-length release for the San Francisco Bay Area punk band led by Tim Armstrong was produced by Brett Gurewitz.
- Flesh & Machine was released by Daniel Lanois. The latest experimental ambient release from the producer features sounds formed from human voices, piano, bass, drums, steel and electric guitars.
- Keep You was released by Pianos Become the Teeth. The third full-length release from the Baltimore screamo band led by Kyle Durfey was produced by Will Yip.
- A Hound at the Hem was released by Slim Twig. Originally self-released in 2012, the concept album from Canadian experimental artists Max Turnbull was inspired by Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita.
- RTJ2 was released by Run the Jewels. The latest release from Killer Mike and El-P features collaborations with Travis Barker of Blink-182, Diane Coffee, and Zack de la Rocha formerly of Rage Against the Machine.
- 1989 was released by Taylor Swift. With producers and co-writers such as Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback, Ryan Tedder, and Noel Zancanella, the multi-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter goes for an entirely pop album on her fifth full-length studio release.
- GAMING: PC
- Dungeon of the Endless for PC is released. Dungeon of the Endless is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out... so what could go wrong... open the door!