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Today's featured article Ashley Tisdale The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes is an interactive drama and survival horror video game, developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the third game of the first season of The Dark Pictures Anthology and was released on 22 October 2021. Ashley Tisdale (pictured) was marketed as the game's lead. Set during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the plot follows four Americans working for the US Armed Forces and one Iraqi Republican Guard who fall into a subterranean Akkadian temple where they must work together to survive the vampiric creatures that infest the area. The game features two single-player gameplay modes and two that are multiplayer, with one played online, while the other can be played locally. House of Ashes received mixed reviews from critics upon release. The fourth game in the series, The Devil in Me, was revealed in a teaser trailer at the end of House of Ashes, and released on 18 November 2022. (Full article...) Recently featured: Takin' It Back Iron Man "Bad Romance" On this day... October 22 Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach by Michael Dahl, c. 1730 1724 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig. 1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach (pictured) were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey. 1895 – At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall, with the locomotive landing on the street below. 1924 – The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California. 2014 – In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill. Charles Scott (d. 1813) César Luis Menotti (b. 1938) Joseph Cahill (d. 1959) Oona King (b. 1967) More anniversaries: October 21 October 22 October 23

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