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TURN YOUR NINTENDO WII INTO A FULL-BLOWN MEDIA HUB

X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE enables users to enjoy their music, videos and photos on a Nintendo Wii. This innovative software turns the popular gaming console into an interactive media centre, by digitally streaming media files such as MP3s and Windows Media Player files from a PC to a Wii.

Share and enjoy your favourite digital media
No longer just for gaming, X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE significantly enhances the Wii’s capabilities. Favourite video files, photos and music normally found on a PC in a bedroom or study can now be easily shared and enjoyed on a TV in any room via a Nintendo Wii. Once installed, the software allows the PC to wirelessly interact with the Wii. Chosen files can then be streamed to the console, eliminating the hassle of transferring content via memory cards, USB devices or CDs.

Access web TV, radio and podcasts
X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE also makes it possible to browse the internet, providing access to over 1,000 digital radio and TV channels. New options include podcast support, RSS feeds and access to popular video sharing sites such as YouTube and Google Video.

Easy installation
Requiring no extra hardware, X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE is easy to use and install. After installing the software on the PC, use the File Wizard to add files to the Media Centre. Then, simply select the Wii’s Internet Channel, typing in the web address and pass code provided to navigate the simple menus and browse the streamed files.

Photos and films can be enjoyed in high quality as the software is optimised for widescreen and HD programs. Common network connection is provided through WLAN or LAN, and extensive media files are supported such as MP3, WMA, OGG, DivX, XviD, Mpeg2, MPEG4, WMV, JPG, BMP etc.

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POSTAL Movie - the funniest film of the year

POSTAL Movie Campaign Delivers Raves in NY, Chicago

SRO advance screenings of Uwe Boll’s “Postal” at New York’s Tribeca Film Center on April 1 and April 3 in Chicago have created genuine buzz regarding the film’s May 23rd rollout. The popular site Times Square Gossip, in a story entitled “Osama Bin Laden Goes time last night with Village People icon Randy Jones at the screening of ‘Postal’, the new movie based on the hit video game. This is a must see movie if you want to have some old time laughs. Scenes with Osama Bin Laden are so funny you are going to drop your popcorn…”

Times Square Gossip went on to attest: “’Postal’ will take you back to all the laughs you had as a teen. I haven't seen a movie this funny since then, with the audience yelling and falling on the floor laughing.”

Michael J. Hein, Director of The New York City City Horror Film Festival, declares: “’Postal’ is the funniest film of the year…hands down!”

After the New York event, Uwe and Vince Desi, RWS’s ringleader; took part in a no-holds-barred Q&A session with the audience. Packed houses in both New York and Chicago enjoyed the latest cut of the film. “The most recent edits have really sharpened the film,” reports Big Apple-native Desi, who took a break from developing POSTAL III at Running With Scissors’ Tucson headquarters.

Meanwhile, POSTAL fan Tara “Evilstara” Jarvis attended the Chicago sneak preview and wrote: “[My husband and] I laughed so hard I almost wet my pants and he had tears in his eyes. It was awesome!”

Special Note: This Press Release includes the third installment in our series of “Postal” movie-style one-sheets. Collect ‘em all!

For more information on the upcoming POSTAL Movie, Postal games and gear, as well as updates on the development of POSTAL III visit our new expanded site www.gopostal.com and be sure to visit PostalNation.net for in-depth coverage of the RWS scene.

WARNING: Adult content on website

POSTAL video game to be shown at special screenings in major US cities

Screenings for POSTAL Movie Slated for New York and Chicago

Tribeca Film Center to Host NY Preview on April 1

Prior to its long-awaited national rollout on May 23, Uwe Boll’s cinematic rendition of Running With Scissors’ POSTAL video game franchise will be shown at special screenings in major American cities, starting with New York and Chicago.

The Big Apple preview will take place at 8PM (EST), April 1st at the Tribeca Film Center (founded by Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal and home to the famous Tribeca Film Festival). “As a born-and-bred New York boy, I’m really looking forward to this event,” admitted Running With Scissors CEO Vince Desi. “I’m very happy with what Uwe has done with this film, so I’m proud to see it showcased in my home town. Plus I get some good pizza and Italian ice.”

Desi and auteur de farce Uwe Boll will both be bringing along their egos for a Q&A following the screening. The kings of multi-media controversy will take unscreened questions from the audience. The Chicago screening will follow on Thursday, April 3rd, 7PM (CST) at the Lake Street Screening Room at 70 E Lake St.

RWS is offering New York-based fans a chance to win one of five pairs of guest tickets to the Tribeca screening through a Facebook promotion. Anyone who joins the POSTAL Facebook Fan Page and leaves a wall post related to the film before March 28th is eligible to win.

The poster included with this press release is the second in an ongoing series of Running With Scissors one-sheet style movie posters being produced to celebrate the release of Postal-The Movie.

For more information on the upcoming POSTAL Movie, Postal games and gear, as well as updates on the development of POSTAL III visit our new expanded site www.gopostal.com and be sure to visit PostalNation.net for in-depth coverage of the RWS scene.

Beowulf Movie Is Like A Video Game

You can talk about Ray Harryhausen and how Beowulf is a nod to the master special effects artist. But when I saw Beowulf at a 3-D IMAX last night, all I could think about was how the movie was influenced by video games. This may herald a sea change in the movie industry when it comes to making action scenes in epic, animated movies. For in Beowulf’s action sequences, I saw everything from the monster battles in Sony’s God of War to the infected townspeople in Resident Evil 4 (Grendel looks like a skinless video game zombie in the movie).

Now, you can say that I play too many video games and that movie special effects are influenced by other movies, not games. But I don’t see it that way. Sure, the scenes in God of War aren’t as graphically detailed as in Beowulf. But the guys that make the effects: I’d be quite surprised if they aren’t playing games and becoming influenced by games. Now let me say this about the video game, which I don’t have in the house yet. Since I’ve seen the movie in 3-D IMAX, I don’t know if I can even play the game. The experience was so gigantic in the theater with the 3-D dragon and Grendel, Ubisoft’ll really have to add some new story lines and levels that include plot beyond the movie for me to get really enthused. Such is the conundrum when movie technology, however inspired by game technology, trumps what can be done in a video game.

Beowulf Movie

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Spyro The Dragon Burning On To Screens?

Computer games have rarely – sorry, never – made good movies. Ever. But maybe that's because movie makers have almost always chosen to adapt games with real humans in them. Maybe the answer is cute little purple dragons.

The Animation Picture Company will certainly be hoping so as they've just secured the movie rights to Spyro the Dragon, the star of a '90s computer game by Sierra Entertainment and Vivendi.

We were a good ten years too old to play Spyro, but it was essentially about a little lavender-coloured dragon who flew around collection treasure and doing bad things to bad people. The animated movie version will reportedly be based on recent Legend of Spyro game trilogy, which is considered a relaunch of the title. Dr. Dolittle scribes Steve and Dan Altiere have been hired to write the script. So that's a really terrific start. Expect this to be, y'know, for kids.

Source: Empire Online

"Spencer Halpin's Moral Kombat" at the IT Came Film Festival.

'Spencer Halpin's Moral Kombat' documentary on violence in videogames to screen at Wisconsin film festival.

Generation: Gamerz (http://www.generationgamerz.com), proud gaming sponsor of the It Came from Lake Michigan Film Festival (http://www.itcamefromlakemichigan.com) today announced that ‘Spencer Halpin's Moral Kombat' documentary on the violence in videogames debate will screen both Saturday 27 October and Sunday 28 October 2007 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with Spencer Halpin being present Saturday. The full-length feature is the first documentary to be shot completely in high-definition and utilizes cutting edge special effects to make the documentary visually stunning. The documentary has been stirring interest and been labeled controversial after the trailer showed up on Youtube.

"After seeing the film I felt that everyone should see it," said Christophor Rick, Business Manager of Generation: Gamerz, LLC, "it does an excellent job of evenly presenting both sides of the debate in a format that is visually interesting without being sensationalistic, regardless of accusations of such."

Shot entirely in high-definition video, the full-length feature documentary studies the controversial, polarizing subject of video game violence through a series of interviews with experts on both sides of the matter - some believing that violent games should be banned, others supporting their protection under the First Amendment.

"What the film does best is make you think, makes you open your mind and listen to both sides of a very important debate." said Thomas Balistreri, General Manager of Generation: Gamerz, LLC., "we are very excited to have this opportunity to show everyone Mr. Halpin's documentary about a debate critical to our industry."

Interviewees in the film are leading politicians, journalists, academics, consumer advocates and special interest group executives, game developers, retailers, trade associations and publishers. The interviewees among others, include: Dr. David Walsh, Jack Thompson, Dr. Michael Rich, Lorne Lanning, Greg Fischbach, Dean Takahashi, Jeff Griffiths, John Marmaduke, Pamela Eakes, Andy McNamara, Greg Ballard, Bob McKenzie, American McGee, Hal Halpin, Lt. Col Grossman, Phil O'Neil, Marie Sylla, Ed Williams, Richard Ow, Dr. Henry Jenkins, and Jason Della Rocca.