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Today's featured article Smash Hit is a 2014 rail-shooter video game developed and published by the Swedish indie game studio Mediocre. Through the game's twelve levels, the player takes a first-person perspective, shooting metal balls to destroy glass obstacles. The player can also shoot up to five balls at once by smashing a consecutive sequence of crystals and gather power-ups that are activated for a limited amount of time. The game also features a one-time in-game purchase that allows the player to start from any unlocked checkpoint. The game's development team consisted of Dennis Gustafsson, Henrik Johansson, and Douglas Holmquist. A virtual reality adaptation of the game was released for platforms in 2015 and 2018. Smash Hit received positive acclaim from reviewers, who praised its physics engine, graphics, music, and sound effects. CNET and Apple listed it as one of the best mobile games of 2014. Gustafsson and Holmquist later worked on Teardown after Mediocre closed in 2017. (Full article...) Recently featured: Tomb of Kha and Merit Ferrari FF Title (album) Selected anniversaries January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964) Comet McNaught 1659 – The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal. 1899 – During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner. 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. 2007 – Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5. John Singer Sargent (b. 1856) Laura Adams Armer (b. 1874) Princess Patricia of Connaught (d. 1974) More anniversaries: January 11 January 12 January 13	In the news Joseph Aoun Joseph Aoun (pictured) is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy. An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 20 deaths. A series of wildfires in Southern California, United States, leaves at least 16 people dead and forces the evacuation of nearly 180,000 others. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, leaving at least 126 people dead. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: John S. Hunkin Mike Rinder Peter Yarrow Ayla Erduran Claude Allègre Joseph Bendounga Did you know... Adrien Nunez ... that Adrien Nunez (pictured), despite limited playing time, was more highly paid than a projected NBA draft lottery pick while in college? ... that specimens of Aquilegia daingolica were collected in 1906 and 1909, but it was first described as a new species in 2013? ... that Yanou Collart helped Rock Hudson get medical treatment when Nancy Reagan would not? ... that when Alexander McQueen, following years of criticism for over-reliance on runway spectacles, presented The Man Who Knew Too Much, it was criticised for its lack of theatrics? ... that Lars Chemnitz was one of the first recipients of Nersornaat, the highest honor in Greenland? ... that the principal songwriter of a song on Always Happy to Explode asked listeners to "love it for me, for I cannot"? ... that Daniel Hermann wrote poems on the inclusion of a lizard and a frog in a piece of amber, the eagle in the coat of arms of Poland, and a child suffering from Fraser syndrome? ... that the harsh treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Japan is well known in the West but mostly ignored or glossed over in Japan itself? ... that a cable TV channel in the UK was still broadcasting primarily in black and white as late as 1979?
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