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Alex Beachum, creative director of Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds is a 2019 action-adventure video game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game follows the player character as they explore a planetary system stuck in a 22-minute time loop that resets after the sun goes supernova and destroys the system. Through repeated attempts they investigate alien ruins to discover their history and the cause of the time loop. The game began development in 2012 as director Alex Beachum's master's thesis, and became a commercial project in 2015. It was released for Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 in 2019, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2022, and for Nintendo Switch in 2023. It was positively received, with most critics acclaiming its design and some criticising the uneven difficulty of gameplay and pursuing the game's mysteries. An expansion, Echoes of the Eye, was released in 2021. Outer Wilds won in multiple categories at award shows, including the Best Game award at the 16th British Academy Games Awards. (Full article...)

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John S. McCain Sr. (left) and John S. McCain Jr.

... that John S. McCain Sr. and John S. McCain Jr. (both pictured) were the first father-and-son pair to achieve the U.S. rank of four-star admiral?
... that those found guilty of cocoa smuggling in Ghana face a sentence of five to ten years in prison?
... that the character Dogpool was portrayed by "Britain's ugliest dog"?
... that a scholar argued that the 2021 German novel About People, which is about the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, encourages "sympathy with rightwing extremists"?
... that Alexander Langmuir created the Epidemic Intelligence Service to send epidemiologists across the world?
... that Miss Indigenous Canada contestants are judged on ambassadorship, character, community service, and cultural involvement?
... that the thrash metal band Hermética received the gold certification for Víctimas del Vaciamiento on-stage during a concert?
... that actor Scott Jarvis was angered when White House officials under Richard Nixon requested that portions of his role in the musical 1776 be cut due to its anti-war theme?
... that a headless priest is said to have cursed León Viejo with earthquakes?

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Srettha Thavisin

Thailand's Constitutional Court dismisses Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin (pictured) due to his appointment of a minister who had served time in jail.
The World Health Organization declares the African mpox epidemic to be a global health emergency.
Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 crashes in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, killing all 62 people on board.
Sheikh Hasina resigns as Prime Minister of Bangladesh following anti-government protests, and Muhammad Yunus is appointed leader of an interim government.

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Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory

1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola came to an end with the British and Creek abandoning their attempt to capture Pensacola in Spanish Florida.
1910 – Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about 4,700 square miles (12,100 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history.
1920 – The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor of the National Football League, was founded.
1998 – The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory (pictured) in Sudan was destroyed by a missile attack launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 U.S. embassy bombings.
2008 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashed just after take-off from Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 154 people.

Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (d. 1651)
Phil Lynott (b. 1949)
Andrew Garfield (b. 1983)
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The Hoher Göll is a 2,522 m (8,274 ft) mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps. It is the highest peak of the Göll massif, which straddles the border between the German state of Bavaria and the Austrian state of Salzburg. This photograph shows the Hoher Göll (left) and Hohes Brett (right) from the west side.Photograph credit: Jörg Braukmamm

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