Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is a 2008 platform game developed by Rare
and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 (pictured). Set
eight years after Banjo-Tooie (2000), Nuts & Bolts follows Banjo and
Kazooie as they compete with the witch Gruntilda for their home. It
retains the structure of previous Banjo-Kazooie games – collecting
jigsaw puzzle pieces to progress – but shifts the focus from
exploration to vehicle construction and manoeuvring. The developers, led
by Gregg Mayles, introduced vehicles as they sought to evolve the
platform genre. Nuts & Bolts was a commercial disappointment and drew
criticism from fans for departing from the Banjo-Kazooie gameplay, but
received generally positive reviews. Retrospectively, its focus on
construction and player freedom has been considered ahead of its time.
It remains the most recent Banjo-Kazooie game, despite fan interest in a
continuation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo-Kazooie:_Nuts_%26_Bolts>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1909:
The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White
Fleet, led by Connecticut, completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Connecticut_%28BB-18%29>
1997:
Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the
existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have
successfully been cloned from an adult cell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29>
2006:
Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a
Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_depot_robbery>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
beer goggles:
(idiomatic, originally US, humorous, informal) The illusion that people
are more sexually attractive, brought on by alcohol consumption.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beer_goggles>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let us … animate and encourage each other, and show the whole
world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is
superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>
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