In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
A buddy of mine from work let me borrow me his copy of Virtua tennis World Tour for PSP. I was quite excited; this game has always been pure entertainment. I?m talking about way back in the day, as I often do from time to time, when Virtua Tennis came out for arcades and then Dreamcast. However, this modern PSP version comes with some worthy of mention improvements.
In the main one player mode, which is world tour, you start off creating a male and female character. The game gives enough traits to tinker around with, such as skin colour, hairstyle, weight and height ? to name a few ? so that you should be able to make your character look like you, which is always a nice feature.
Both of your characters start off ranked 300 and the goal is to train and compete in enough tournaments to become the champ, but this doesn?t mean you have to defeat 300 people. In order to enter tournaments, which come in the form of both singles and doubles, you have to wait for a week in which you rank high enough to enter. The game defines a week by one or two training levels, or a tournament. You also have the choice to rest for a week if you?re trying to get to a tourney faster or allow your character to regain stamina.
The training levels are sort of silly but enjoyable for the most part. I particularly enjoyed the levels in which you can serve the ball to knock down seven pins in a kind of bowling set-up and another that pits you against a tennis-ball firing tank.
One thing I can say about this game is that it’s quite the challenge. Even the original wasn?t as hard as this one. I found that the computer A.I. absolutely walloped me the first couple of matches I tried it. This is due largely in part to the fact that returning the ball is no simple task. I mean, sure you can simply tap the button when your character is near the ball but there?s much more to it then that. If anyone?s actually ever played the game in real life what I?m trying to explain here should make sense. Basically, to get a nice return you need to position yourself in front of the ball, hold the return button down and then let go at the right moment after the ball bounces. It?s simple physics: if you hit the ball soon after it bounces you really don?t have time to put any power in the shot and if you hit the ball too late you?re likely to loose control and perhaps knock the ball out.
I suppose this is why I enjoyed this game so much, because in essence, the control style mimics the sport in real life. This doesn?t mean that I have an edge or an advantage because most will surely find that the gameplay is comfortable and simple. And once I started to get the rhythm I started to make slow but definite progress in the one player mode and thus, managed to start moving up in the ranks. I said it before and I?ll say it again: this was no simple task because the computer?s A.I., even on normal and even in the very first levels is a forced to be reckoned with. Although you can make your character stronger and faster with the training levels, the real key to making progress comes through getting the hang of strategically placing serves, capitalizing when stuck in a tight rally and especially mastering the art of volleying.
I tried this game online but surprise, surprise there was nobody there! As I mentioned last week, this has been typical of the online experience with the PSP and I still don?t understand it. I?ve spent some time looking for the answer on forums for nerdiest of nerds and I still don?t understand it. Can it really be possible that no one in North America has gotten into the online aspect for PSP games? Anywho, I hope this gets better once the system picks up, which will likely be after December because the idea of being able to play a human player whenever you like would sure make this game better.
For now, I?ll just have to settle for the good ol? invincible A.I.
