Steve Gaynor (second left), Johnnemann Nordhagen (third) and Karla Zimonja (fourth), game developers
BioShock 2: Minerva's Den is a single-player
downloadable content (DLC) campaign for the 2010
first-person shooter game BioShock 2, developed by
2K Marin and published by
2K Games. The player assumes the role of Subject Sigma, an armored and genetically modified human, or "
Big Daddy"; Sigma must travel through Minerva's Den, the technological hub of the underwater city of
Rapture, to download a schematic of the city's supercomputer. Minerva's Den was created by a small team (some members pictured) within 2K Marin led by Steve Gaynor. They decided upon a small, personal story about
identity and
free will, which explores an unseen part of Rapture. Minerva's Den was initially released for
PlayStation 3 and
Xbox 360 consoles in August 2010, and was later released and reissued on other platforms. It was well received by critics, who praised its story, characters, and gameplay; reviewers, including those writing for Kotaku and Paste, considered it one of the best video game expansions of all time. (Full article...)
... that at the time, the Battle of Shiloh was the largest battle fought in the United States, with nearly 24,000 casualties?
... that
Lord Snowdon and
Princess Margaret spent much time at his family's Welsh country mansion Plas Dinas, but after his father's death the estate went to Snowdon's younger half-brother?
1844 – The last known pair of great auks(one pictured), the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, were killed on
Eldey, Iceland.
NGC 6530 is a young
open cluster of stars lying around 4,350
light years from Earth in the constellation
Sagittarius. The cluster is set within the larger
Lagoon Nebula, a large interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This photograph of a portion of NGC 6530 was taken by
NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope released in 2022, with the Lagoon Nebula giving the image its smoky appearance.
Photograph credit:
ESA / Hubble /
NASA / O. De Marco
Community portal – The central hub for editors, with resources, links, tasks, and announcements.
Village pump – Forum for discussions about Wikipedia itself, including policies and technical issues.
Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement.
Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics.
Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.
Wikipedia's sister projects
Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the
Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer
projects: