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NBA 2K10: Draft Combine Screenshots

andPOP Staff — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:58:06 +0000

2K Sports has announced NBA 2K10: Draft Combine, a download only game for basketball fans to have some fun with the pre-season. The game drops in September for Xbox (400 points) and PS3 ($4.99).

NBA 2K10: Draft Combine will allow fans to create their own custom player with the utmost detail and, for the first time in the NBA 2K series, begin their career by experiencing the on-court life of an NBA hopeful going through the NBA Draft Combine at the world-renowned, ATTACK Athletics gym in Chicago.

We’ve got some screenshots from the game.

Features of NBA 2K10: Draft Combine include:

Building custom players by working with a mentor, the 2K Insider, and increasing their NBA stock through a variety of challenging basketball drills and 5-on-5 games.
Over 300 different signature customizations, including player-specific shooting animations, dunk and dribble packages and more to allow each created player to have his own unique personal style.
Ability to strengthen all parts of the created player’s game with a variety of drills, such as shooting, post offense and defense, attacking the basket, dribbling, challenging shots, boxing out for rebounds and more to progress through the NBA Draft Combine.
Organized games that will allow players to gain valuable skill points and offer a variety of specific in-game objectives that will need to be accomplished in order to gain them. At the end of each game, a full analysis will be available for gamers to review their player’s performance and strategize their further improvement.
All players created in NBA 2K10: Draft Combine will wear a special patch on their uniform throughout the rest of that player’s career to denote that they have completed the NBA Draft Combine.
Online leaderboards to track the highest ranking custom built players, and where a player stacks up against the competition.
Opportunity to unlock special achievements on Xbox 360 and trophies for PLAYSTATION 3 system.
Fans can take their custom built players from NBA 2K10: Draft Combine and use them in the all-new My Player career mode in NBA 2K10 launching this fall, allowing them to continue their journey of becoming an NBA legend.

More information is available on the 2K Sports web site.

Jolie Says Twins Conceived Naturally

andPOP Staff — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:11:32 +0000

In the People magazine article that accompanies their photo spread with their new children, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt deny rumours that their twins were conceived through in vitro fertilization.

“If they had been conceived through IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it,” Jolie said. “But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems.”

The pair also recall the moment they found out they were expecting not only a fifth child but a sixth, saying they were “in shock and could not stop laughing.”

Pitt pitches into the conversation, saying that the twins are the spitting image of their proud parents. “Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality,” he gused, “And Knox, a bit of me.”

Photog Sells Integrity, Betrays Britney

andPOP Staff — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:16:01 +0000

A photographer who took family portraits of Britney Spears and her sons has sold the pics to OK! magazine, despite previously insisting she would not.

The shots taken by Dani Brubaker in early November are featured in the issue released today. In the accompanying article, Brubaker says that she found Spears to be “very attentive… She was very loving. She told me she loved her children and that they are her life.”

The photos were meant to be private, though Spears did not get Brubaker to sign a contract to keep them that way. On the Britney Spears fansite BreatheHeavy.com, Brubaker previously claimed that she would not compromise her morality by selling the pictures.

“The images from the shoots were never available for purchase, although I have been offered upwards of half a million dollars,” Brubaker wrote. “Recent postings indicate that I profited from these images. Which is not true. My integrity isn’t for sale.”

It is unknown how much Brubaker sold her integrity for.