developed by Nihilistic Software. Released by Activision for Microsoft
Windows on June 7, 2000, and for Mac OS in 2001, the game is based on
White Wolf Publishing's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. It
follows the vampire Christof Romuald from the Dark Ages of 12th century
Prague and Vienna to modern-day London and New York City in search of
his humanity and his kidnapped love, the nun Anezka. The player controls
Christof and up to three allies in first- and third-person perspectives.
Nihilistic took 24 months to complete the game on a budget of US$1.8
million. The game received a mixed critical response; reviewers praised
its graphics and multiplayer functionality, but were polarized by the
quality of the story and combat. Its high-quality graphics and sound ran
poorly on some computer systems. It received the 1999 Game Critics
Awards for Best Role-Playing Game. Vampire: The Masquerade –
Bloodlines, set in the same fictional universe, was released in November
2004.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade_%E2%80%93_Redemption>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1692:
An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to
sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake>
1788:
Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an
event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tiles>
1899:
American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation entered a saloon in
Kiowa, Kansas, and proceeded to destroy all the alcoholic beverages with
rocks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation>
1948:
Rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution making his
nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of
Czechoslovakia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Bene%C5%A1>
2006:
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, was
killed when the United States Air Force bombed his safehouse near
Baqubah.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
quagmire:
1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
2. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless
tangle; a predicament.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quagmire>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks>
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