Thanks to a link provided by VG247, we now have a list of developers confirmed for E3 2008 along with what titles they will be showing off at the event. While the list is still updated regularly, as of this post, this is what you can expect should you be attending.

Akella
Postal III (PC, X360)

Bethesda Softworks
Fallout 3 (PC, PS3, X360)

Capcom
Bionic Commando (PC, PS3, X360)
Bionic Commando Rearmed (PC, PS3, X360)
Capcom Project #1 [untitled] (other)
Capcom Project #2 [untitled] (other)
Dark Void (PC, PS3, X360)
MotoGP 08 (other)
Neopets Puzzle Adventure (PC, Wii)
Plunder (PC, PS3, X360)
Resident Evil 5 (PS3, X360)
Spyborgs (Wii)
Street Fighter IV (PC, PS3, X360)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (PS3, X360)

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Oh, Uwe Boll, you just can’t seem to catch a break. Not only are you having trouble getting theaters to show your latest abomination creation, Postal, but now you can’t even give free screenings away. Last Friday, almost 200 people were present for a free screening of the film in Hoboken, New Jersey, but around three-quarters of those people walked out midway. The main reason cited was some offensive scenes, particularly one where 9/11 terrorists hijack a plane, decide to fly to the Bahamas instead, and then accidentally crash it into the Twin Towers anyway when passengers try to take over the cockpit. For his part though, Boll doesn’t seem to fazed, stating that his film isn’t for everyone:

“Being politically correct, let’s say, the big studios are kind of overdoing it,” he said. “I feel it is time now to make a really wild movie, something over the top…We don’t spare any group. We don’t want to hurt anybody but we want to break the rules,” he said, “We want to make people think: What is a taboo? We want to make people start thinking about their own boundaries and rules.”

Good point, Uwe. I’m going to start thinking about my own rules and boundaries from now on: Rule 1) Stay the hell away from any theater showing a Uwe Boll film.

Via NJ.com

Obviously, if you’re going to make a new rhythm game, you have to make it stand out a bit from the rest. So how does Konami plan to do this for their upcoming Rock Revolution? Well, for one, they recently revealed the most complicated fake drum set out there. The drum kit for Rock Revolution will feature six plates to bang on, plus a kick pedal, for a grand total of seven different buttons you’ll have to keep track of. Personally, I’m terrible at the drums on Rock Band, which has a now-measly four pads and a kick pedal, so the idea of three extra things to worry about isn’t exactly a selling point for me. Well, that and the fact that I’ve already got two rhythm games in my house, and I really don’t need anymore damn peripherals.

Via MTV Multiplayer

Oh, Uwe Boll. You just can’t catch a break. The infamous director recently announced that his latest film, Postal, is getting an incredibly limited release on May 23rd. How limited? Four screens, and no, that’s not a typo. Why is that? Well, here are Boll’s rantings thoughts on the matter:

Theatrical distributors are boycotting Postal because of its political content. We were prepared to open on 1500 screens all across America on May 23rd. Any multiplex in the U.S. should have space for us, but they’re afraid… We have even tried to buy a few screens in New York and Los Angeles, and they won’t let us even rent the theaters! I urge independent exhibitors to contact us and book ‘Postal’! Audiences have been expecting the film and I don’t think exhibitors should censor what gets played in U.S. theaters.

Yes, it’s gotta be the “political content.” Theaters hate showing controversial political films. Remember Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11? Of course you don’t, because no theaters showed it due to its political content; “too many farting Bin Ladens,” they said. And it certainly couldn’t have anything to do with it being released around the same time as the new Indiana Jones movie. Plus the fact that all of Boll’s previous films have bombed at the box office couldn’t have had any impact on the theaters’ decision at all. I mean, it’s not like movie theaters are in the business of making money.

Via Kotaku

Just the other day, Uwe Boll, the director every gamer and movie watcher loves to hate, stated rather off-hand that he would quit making films if an online petition received one million signatures (if you can’t remember, it was THIS PETITION RIGHT HERE). At the time, the petition had around 18,000 signatures. Since he mentioned his intentions though, that number appears to have grown to around 127,000. The infamous director has now responded — in somewhat broken English — to the growing number of signatures the with the sort of tact you’d expect from the man behind films such as Postal and Bloodrayne:

“Look, I’m not a f***ing retard like Michael Bay or other people running around in the business or Eli Roth making the same s***ty movies over and over again. If you really look at my movies you will see my real genius you know, and if you go on May 23 on Postal you will see that I deliver a movie what nobody else delivered in the last 10 years, what is way better as all that social critic George Clooney bulls*** what you get every f***ing weekend. You have to really wake up and you have to see me what I am. I am the only genius in the whole fucking business. Goodbye.”

That’s right, people. It’s not his fault that his movies are terrible, it’s your fault for not “getting” them. He also said that he hopes someone out there makes a pro-Boll petition. Oddly, I kind of agree with his views on movies, particularly where Michael Bay and Eli Roth are concerned. I just don’t agree with his views on his own movies.

Via MovieSet.com

In an a somewhat funny April Fool’s Press Release, the folks over at Running with Scissors have issued some added hilarity to the day.According to the “press release” the growing link between the military establishment and videogame developers just got a little tighter as one of the most controversial implements in the POSTAL game series arsenal—the“Cat Silencer”—is now part of real world, cutting edge weapons technology.

The“Cat Silencer” device that Uwe Boll spent a fortune to develop as a special effect for his upcoming “Postal – The Movie” is now ready for real world use by police and military forces around the world. In fact, the device was highlighted recently on Discovery Channel’s “FutureWeapons” right alongside state of the art ordinance such as the Corner-Shot, a rifle with a camera-enabled sighting system capable of firing around corners and interfacing with modular weapons from an AK-47 and grenade launcher to the Cat Silencer itself.

“We’ve always considered ourselves a force for order in a chaotic world,” Running With Scissors CEO and weapon visionary Vince Desi told reporters.“It makes me stiffen with patriotic pride to think about what these weapons R&D people will do with the Badger Buzzsaw in our next game, POSTAL III. And just for the record, no real cats were used, armed or harmed by Running WIth Scissors,” noted animal lover VInce Desi assured the press.

For more information on the upcoming POSTAL Movie, and updates on the development of POSTAL III visit the new expanded site.

WARNING: WEBSITE NSFW or anyone else with any sort of moral values but still good for a chuckle or two.

Via: “Press Release”

I am assuming that POSTAL will be screened at the New York City Horror Film Festival, not necessarily because it is a scary flick per se , but because it is indeed a horror of nature.

Leading up to its May 23 release date, director Uwe Boll’s POSTAL will have several exclusive press and audience screenings in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The New York Horror Film Festival will be hosting the New York screening on Tuesday, April 1st and if you are a glutton for punishment, the screening will be held at the Tribeca Cinemas, located at 54 Varick Street and Canal, in New York. The screening will take place at 8:00 pm and be introduced by the film’s director, the infamous Uwe Boll, followed by a “Q&A.”

Horror Film Festivals are indeed a fun time for all, but the inclusion of POSTAL along with the appearance of the anti-christ of cinema himself if just astoundingly hilarious. The festival is “dedicated to the international genre film community” and “there are no restrictions on the films that are screened at the festivals”. Zero restrictions regarding entry into a film festival would normally be considered a good thing but this little clause got Uwe in the door.

I guess when it hits theaters nationwide we will see how well it does at the box office. Place your bets now.

Via: Press Release

Oh Dear Lord Almighty! Uwe Boll, has completely lost his mind. I am so literally stunned and in a state of shock and disbelief that he would seriously try and go up against one of the most anticipated movies of the last 15 years, that it has honestly left me dumbfounded. Read it for yourself:

Tucson, AZ: After a year of touring the world via film festivals and preview screenings, the film version of Running With Scissors’ cult video game franchise POSTAL now has a firm release date. Moreover, Postal: The Movie will make its big screen bow on May 23rd, in direct competition with the first weekend in release for the latest Lucas/Spielberg Indiana Jones flick.

“We will go out and destroy Indiana Jones at the box office!” thundered a confident Uwe “Raging” Boll of the first film to win him positive reviews, even from the video game community. Boll attributed the delay of the film’s rollout to litigation involving the New York Post and his film’s outrageous opening scene spoofing 9/11. “But now the field is clear,” Boll vowed.

The film stars Zack Ward as “The Postal Dude”, along with Kids In the Hall star Dave Foley; Austin Powers Mini Me – Verne Troyer; Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi Larry Thomas and classic character actor J.K. Simmons.

“Frankly,” Running With Scissors’ CEO Vince Desi (who plays himself and the lovable Postal character Krotchy) admitted, ” we’re ecstatic that a release date has been set, and to have Universal behind it is all the sweeter. We’ve been working overtime developing POSTAL III for PC and console and our fans have been waiting to see this movie for a long time now.”

In what alternate universe or plane of existence did most gamers give “Postal: The Movie” a great review? If Boll really wanted one of his movies to garner more money than what he put into it via box office sales, he and Universal should have picked a better release date. Indy will crush them. Hell, “Barbie and the Land of Make Believe Horses Who Poop Rainbows” will stomp him at the box office, and that is just something I made up off the top of my head.

If this movie, seriously, is a grand success, and I mean GRAND, then I will personally write a letter of apology to Uwe himself and have him over for dinner just to make up for being such a hater towards him. However, I say that with the utmost confidence I can garner because we all know that it will tank next to Indiana Jones – what movie won’t?

Oh, and shame on you Dave Foley for even being in this movie! Unless you are broke and destitute, you are better than this and have shamed your fellow “Kids” for appearing in it.

ApparentlyUwe Boll has had his feelings hurt by gamers in the past, and now that his latest flop has gamers and the general population both laughing their fool heads off at him, he has decided to strike back with his only weapon – his words. Poor Uwe.Greg Gutfeld of Fox News recently interviewed Boll on the program “Red Eye” and during this little tête-à-tête, Boll decided to try and get a dig in at gamers who bash him over the Internet.

“They don’t have their own life and they’re still sitting at Mommy’s table every lunch”, said Boll.”

Apparently, Boll is unaware that the majority of gamers who bash his work to bits are not 12 year-olds still living at home, but adults with jobs, lives, an intricate social ladder, and some of who may also be married or enjoying some sort of relationship with another adult outside the confines of schoolyard slap and tickle sessions.

When asked how he dealt with gamers who complain about his movies, Boll with his usual defensive tone, replied:

“A lot of video games have no story. I did the movie “House of the Dead” and got bashed and I said, what were you expecting, Schindler’s List? I showed zombies chasing people and this is basically what the movie delivers. I don’t know what they were expecting [from] a movie based on an ego shooter where you kill ninety minutes of people non-stop.”

If video games are lacking in story, why doesn’t he just get a normal script from a starving Hollywood writer who would not care if he destroyed their work just as long as they could buy their latest bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 and a value meal from McDonald’s with the proceeds? I only say that because most writers suffer for their art and get paid next to nothing, I am not making fun of writers in general per say, just trying to make a point that there are loads of ludicrous scripts out there that Boll can pick and choose from – no matter which one he chooses it will turn into an insufferable piece of sewage.

Therefore, to blame his failings on video games, a genre he continues to exploit for his own illusions of grandeur, is like blaming the alcohol you binged on last Saturday night for the scorching case of gonorrhea you contracted. He cannot just pass the buck; he must take responsibility for his own corrosive actions.

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Today is a historic day for the “video game movie” genre, for one of its worst contributors has been rightfully downgraded. Uwe Boll, director of such cinematic defecations as Bloodrayne and Alone in the Dark, has been effectively reduced to low budget film-making from here on out. Apparently his most recent film, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, tanked so badly at the box office that he doesn’t have the funds for any more big-budget fiascos. The film cost about $70 million to make, but only brought in around $3 million at the box office over the weekend. Before, Boll had been funding his movies through a German tax shelter fund, which might explain how he continued to produce films despite very little critical or financial success. But those funds have now been banned along with other similar tax shelters in Germany, leaving Boll with almost no alternative but to go low-budget.

“In the future, I will focus on small films such as (the video game adaptation) ‘Postal’ or (the Vietnam war drama) ‘Tunnel Rats,’ ” he said. “These are films that represent my true passion, and they can be done with small budgets.”

The photo above shows a mass of Germans celebrating in the streets after the fall of the Berlin Wall, because people the world over should be celebrating this wonderful news. There should be dancing in the streets as people stomp on DVDs of Boll’s films, and David Hasselhoff should be singing “I’ve Been Looking for the Freedom” wearing a jacket covered in flashing lights. I honestly feel like throwing a party just for this with lots of champagne for all.

Via Hollywood Reporter