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Halo Wars (released 2009) is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. The game is set in the science fiction universe of the Halo series in the year 2531, 21 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The player leads human soldiers aboard the warship Spirit of Fire in an effort to stop an ancient fleet of ships from falling into the hands of the genocidal alien Covenant. Halo Wars was unveiled at the 2006 X06 Xbox show. Ensemble was closed by Microsoft before the game's release, but Robot Entertainment was founded soon after by many of Ensemble's former employees; this new company continued to support Halo Wars with updates and downloadable content. The game received generally positive reviews. Reviewers lauded the game's pre-rendered cinematics, attention to detail in replicating the Halo universe, and intuitive control scheme. Complaints against the game included the lack of an option to play as the Covenant faction in campaign mode as well as the lack of strategic options during play. The game sold one million units worldwide through March 2009. ( Full article...)
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Mells War Memorial
- ... that one son of a former prime minister unveiled Mells War Memorial (pictured) while another is commemorated on it?
- ... that during the Siege of Syracuse by the Aghlabids in 877–878, the Byzantine navy failed to aid the city on time, as it was employed in the construction of the Nea Ekklesia church?
- ... that the parents of the first white child born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, settled on Glade Run?
- ... that a mysterious World War II airbase of the former Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service located at Nishiki, Kumamoto, is currently being surveyed with a view to eventually opening it up to tourists?
- ... that the Welsh architect Thomas Thomas made sure he preached one of the very first sermons in every chapel he built?
- ... that Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve had no official name when it was gazetted in 1979, but had been used for beekeeping for generations?
- ... that Rahul Thakkar, an Indian-American software developer, jointly won the 2016 Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement?
- ... that in the music video for the title track from Wow to the Deadness, the members of Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil throw water balloons at each other?
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