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From today's featured article  The Nintendo 64, for which Blast Corps was developed Blast Corps is a 1997 action video game for the Nintendo 64 (pictured). In the game, the player uses vehicles to destroy buildings in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier. In the game's 57 levels, the player solves puzzles by moving objects and bridging gaps with the vehicles. Blast Corps was developed at Rare by a small team of recent graduates over the course of a year. They were inspired, in part, by the puzzle elements of Donkey Kong '94. Nintendo published and released Blast Corps to critical acclaim in March 1997 in Japan and North America. Its European and Australian release followed on December 22. The game received several editor's choice awards and Metacritic's second-highest Nintendo 64 rating of 1997. It sold about a million copies, below the team's expectations. Reviewers praised the game's originality, variety, and graphics, but some critiqued its controls and repetition. Reviewers of the 2015 Rare Replay retrospective compilation noted Blast Corps as a standout title. (Full article...)

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Ongoing: Recent deaths&#58; On this day December 23: Night of the Radishes in Oaxaca City, Mexico; Festivus  General George Washington Resigning His Commission Gharib Nawaz ( b. 1690)Anna J. Harrison  ( b. 1912)P. V. Narasimha Rao  ( d. 2004)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <h2 id="mp-tfl-h2" class="mp-h2">From today's featured list <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 152px;"> Location of Nunavut in Canada Nunavut's 25 municipalities cover only <span data-sort-value="6999189231451834311♠" style="display:none"> 0.2% of the territory's land mass but are home to <span data-sort-value="7001999511639264203♠" style="display:none"> 99.95% of its population. Nunavut (map pictured) is the least populous of Canada's three territories with 36,858 residents as per the 2021 census, but the largest territory in land area at 1,836,993.78 km2 (709,267.26 sq mi). Municipalities are created by the Government of Nunavut in accordance with the 2003 Cities, Towns and Villages Act and the 2003 Hamlets Act, which are statutes of the neighbouring Northwest Territories. The largest municipality by population in Nunavut is Iqaluit with 7,429 residents, home to <span data-sort-value="7001201557328124152♠" style="display:none"> 20.2% of the territory's population. The smallest municipality by population is Grise Fiord with 144 residents. The largest municipality by land area is Kugluktuk, which spans 538.99 km2 (208.11 sq mi), while the smallest is Kimmirut at 2.3 km2 (0.89 sq mi). (Full list...) Recently featured: <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> 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:
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