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Today's featured article Mario Party DS is a 2007 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the second handheld game in the Mario Party series, as well as the last game in the series to be developed by Hudson Soft, as all subsequent games have been developed by NDcube. Like most installments in the Mario Party series, Mario Party DS features characters of the Mario franchise competing in a board game with a variety of minigames, many of which utilize the console's unique features, including its built-in microphone, dual screen and touch screen mechanics, and motion sensitivity. Up to four human players can compete at a time, though characters can also be computer-controlled. Although Mario Party DS received mixed reviews, with general praise for its minigame variety and criticism for its absence of an online multiplayer mode, the game has sold more than nine million units worldwide, making it the 11th-best-selling game for the Nintendo DS. (Full article...) Recently featured: Starship Troopers (film) Yugoslav destroyer Ljubljana Thomas Percy (Gunpowder Plot)   Detail of Genesis by Rico Lebrun ... that Rico Lebrun refused to submit sketches of Genesis (detail pictured), a mural commissioned by Pomona College, for approval by its board of trustees? ... that college football player Ricot Joseph declined a full scholarship so that he could be a walk-on? ... that the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Prison Service were breached by protestors in 2003? ... that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna's car was once fired on by Russian tanks? ... that the owner of the De Vinne Press Building finalized his purchase of the building while in an elevator? ... that Grizel Niven created "The Bessie", the Women's Prize for Fiction statuette, which a past winner called "ugly"? ... that two of the victims and much of the aircraft involved in the crash of Western Air Lines Flight 636 were never removed from San Francisco Bay? ... that a superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department posed as a corrupt officer during covert operations? ... that The Lock-Up, an art gallery housed in a former police station, retains the graffiti drawn by prisoners in the holding cells and has incorporated it into a performative exhibition?

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