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Anachronox is a third-person role-playing video game produced by Tom Hall (pictured) and the Dallas Ion Storm games studio. It was released worldwide in June 2001 for Microsoft Windows. The turn-based game follows a down-and-out private investigator looking for work in the slums of planet Anachronox; he travels to other planets, collects an unlikely group of friends, and unravels a mystery that threatens the fate of the universe. The game's design and unconventional humor were influenced by cyberpunk and film noir; inspirations include the video game Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series, animator Chuck Jones, and the novel Ender's Game. The game was built with a heavily modified version of the Quake II engine, rewritten chiefly to allow a wider color palette, emotive animations and facial expressions, and better particle, lighting, and camera effects. Originally planned for a 1998 release, Anachronox‍‍ '‍s development was long and difficult. Critics enjoyed the game and awarded it high marks for its design and story, but Ion Storm closed down one month after the game's release. In 2003, Anachronox cinematic director Jake Hughes spliced together gameplay footage and cutscenes to create a feature-length award-winning film. (Full article...)

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In cricket, Mumbai Indians win the Indian Premier League after defeating Chennai Super Kings in the final.
Måns Zelmerlöw (pictured), representing Sweden with the song "Heroes", wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria.
Mathematician and Nobel Laureate John Forbes Nash, Jr., the subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, dies in an automobile accident.
At least 40 people are killed in a shootout in Mexico between Federal police and members of Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Ireland becomes the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by constitutional referendum.
At least 21 people are killed by a suicide bomb in Qatif, Saudi Arabia.

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May 26: National Sorry Day in Australia; Mother's Day in Poland; Independence Day in Georgia (1918)

1328 – William of Ockham, an English friar who originated the methodological principle Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
1865 – American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Army force remaining in the war.
1940 – Second World War: A flotilla of "little ships" began a mass evacuation (pictured) of British, French and Belgian troops cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk.
1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004 experienced an uncommanded thrust reverser deployment of an engine and broke apart in mid-air, killing all 223 people on board.

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The Heddal stave church is a stave church located at Heddal in Notodden, Norway. The largest church of its kind in Norway, this three-nave building dates to the 13th century; according to legend, it was built in three days.

Photograph: Micha L. Rieser

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