Epic Games and released through the App Store on December 9, 2010. It is
the first iOS video game to run on the Unreal Engine. In the game, the
unnamed player character fights a series of one-on-one battles in a
derelict castle to face the immortal God King. When in battle, players
swipe the screen to attack and parry, and tap the screen to dodge and
block enemy attacks. Upon victory or defeat, the player restarts the
game as the character's descendant with the same items and experience
level. Developed by a team of twelve people, the game was intended to
demonstrate the new iOS version of the Unreal Engine. Four free
expansions added new equipment, endings, and game modes. The game made
US$1.6 million in the first four days after its release, more than any
other app in the history of iOS, and over $23 million by the end of
2011. Reviews heavily praised the graphics and compared the mobile game
favorably to console games. Critics also praised the swipe-based combat
system, but split opinions on the cyclical gameplay as either addictive
or repetitive.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Blade>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolutionary War: After their loss in the Battle of
Great Bridge, British authorities were forced to evacuate from the
Colony of Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Great_Bridge>
1931:
The approval of the Spanish Constitution by the Constituent
Cortes paved the way to the establishment of the Second Spanish
Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1931>
1940:
Second World War: British and Commonwealth forces opened
Operation Compass, the first major Allied military operation of the
Western Desert Campaign (Cruiser Mk I tank pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Compass>
1965:
A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first television adaptation of
Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, was broadcast for the first time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas>
1979:
A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified
the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious
disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ajar:
Slightly turned or opened.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ajar>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of
work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by
all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such
vague formulas as "The Right to work," or "To each the whole result of
his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for
All!
--Peter Kropotkin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin>
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