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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?”
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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.
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What ever happened to Birdman, that super hero with the super powered crest? The one that saved our world time and time again from such nemises… nemisae … nemese… as Freezoid, or Mentok the Mindtaker? Well, like all physically demanding super-jobs, it had to end sooner or later. Most heroes retire or get killed in the line of duty but not so for Birdman. Now in his post-hero years Harvey serves the public not with heroic feats, but with billable hours. Yes that’s right, our favorite bird based Hanna Barbara hero from years passed is now a practicing lawyer. And with his comedic cartoon on Adult Swim, comes a fun little game. Well, it’s more like a set of interactive episodes than an actual game. Developed by High Voltage Software and published by good old Capcom, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law hits the PSP, PS2 and Wii for all your litigation funnies.
Controlling Harvey you are given a case, a lead and sent off on your way to gather information, interview suspects and pick up useful items. As a point and click adventure, you don’t really do much moving around. Instead you choose which location to visit from a list given to you, click on everyone and everything, listen to what everyone has to say and explore to your heart’s content. Just as long as you don’t mind single shot stages. Once you gather all the information you need, the case begins and questions are asked. The game play is very similar to that of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, actually exactly like it in which you’re given a set of lives and every time you make a false accusation or ask the wrong question you lose a life. When you are out of lives you must restart from the last save point.
While the stages are pretty short, and there are only five of them, they feel very much like the TV show in terms of quality. As an added plus while you help out your falsely accused Hanna Barbara friends you can be sure to see some sneaky Street Fighter cameos (thanks Capcom). The game is pretty straight forward, and while you may get game over once or twice per case, you can always restart and try different approaches.
Graphic and sound wise the game is exactly like the show. Minimal actual character moving and plenty of voice acting makes the production value feel much higher than you would expect from a cartoon adaptation of this level. Animators are the same ones as the show, and the majority of the same voice actors worked on this game, as such, if your hankering for more Harvey Birdman on TV this might be your best bet in between waiting for new episodes. A lot of our favourite characters are here, Freezoid, Peanut, Potamus, Phil Ken Sebben, X the Eliminator, and of course Mentok the Mindtaker to name a few.
Controlling Harvey Birdman is a snap, as a game without time limits, action, or finesse really you can use the PSP, and PS2 analog stick to point and click on whatever you want to look at, pick up, or talk to. As well, selecting what to say can be as easy as pushing up or down then X. On the Wii however, you don’t even have to scroll, just point and click. It makes controlling around this title a lot faster, and feels more like a different experience than the average point and click adventure from the early 90’s. If you are deciding on your platform purchase based on control alone (as graphics, price and everything else are identical on all three), the Nintendo Wii is the only one of the three titles to offer a different layout.
I’m just going to flat out say it, Harvey Birdman is a short game, with the ability to beat it in a single sitting one evening, it still lasts much longer than the TV show normally would. But luckily with small playtime comes small price tag as all three versions go for an actual retail price of… $19.99, with many game stores having used copies for sale at a slightly lower price. Along with the five cases you can find and unlock five special video clips, which unless you unlock by accident aren’t really worth the effort to look for. As well, you could always go back and try other options just to see what the Birdman has to say.
All in all, if you’re a fan of Harvey and his crazy humor (I know I am), pick this game up immediately, a couple of hours working a McJob should pay for that. If you don’t like Harvey, or any of the other zany characters, hey, not every game is great for everyone. I enjoyed the game play, I enjoyed the humor and the variety of platforms it is available for is also greatly appreciated (on the go, old school, or alternative as I like to think of them). Unfortunately the game is pretty short, and I feel this title would have been a great episodic adventure to carry on into the years.
Graphics: 5.0 / 5.0 (while not amazing, look exactly like the show, couldn’t really get much better than that)
Game play 3.0 / 5.0 (point and click only, some mini-games would have been sweet)
Sound 4.5 / 5.0 (plenty of voice acting from show talent, and humorous to boot!)
Replay value 1.0 / 5.0 (you could finish it 100% in a weekend easily)
