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.
Dr. Kawashima sure knows how to get my brain going, and his latest installment of Brain Age 2: More training in minutes a day! is no exception. Much like the first Brain Age, this game is designed to keep your brain young and sharp with a whole new slew of options and mini games to play each and every day so you never go dull.
Compared to the first Brain Age, this installment has 17 new exercises, 100 more sudoku puzzles and after a while, you can even unlock a Dr. Mario clone called Virus Buster. The game gives each DS cartridge up to four save files for family fun and can wirelessly allow up to 16 players in one of four game modes. As you progress through the game you unlock more fun activities, so the game never gets old, and it’s good for you too!
The controls are simple and effective, ranging from voice activated commands to writing an answer using your stylus. You begin by answering some questions about yourself and completing a number of tasks to generate your very own brain age. The younger your brain’s age is, the sharper and quicker it’s supposed to be at processing information and solving problems. As you practice and exercise your mind every day using this title, you will be able to track your advancement and eventually retest yourself to hopefully achieve a lower, more realistic score.
Since the last installment, many of the technical issues were acknowledged and fixed, some of the more tedious cranial workouts have been replaced with more enjoyable updates and the horrible voice recognition from the last installment has been replaced with a much easier to use rock-paper-scissors game.
The menu and presentation to the game itself, down to the actual professor’s face have pretty much stayed the same since last game. The animations and graphics consist mostly of words, numbers and stick figures, along with some new twists in terms of the stereo speakers and other DS features such as an exercise where multiple words are being spoken vocally at the same time and you must write each word out separately.
This game, which in the end is more of an application than anything, is meant to be played in little chunks, for a few minutes a day, ideally in the morning. It also offers little examples of how to keep your mind sharp throughout the day. As such, this game should never really ‘end’ as it is more of a daily exercise then a game with a plot or storyline.
In the end, Brain Age 2 feels more like an expansion of the first title with added features and new activities, most noticeably being the online competitive aspect. If you find the original title getting a little stale, this is the perfect game to pick up for the expanding and honing of one’s mind. Also available in French!
Graphics: 3.0 / 5.0
Gameplay 4.0 / 5.0
Sound 4.0 / 5.0
Replay value 4.5 / 5.0
