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Extra! Extra! . . Read all about it. More PC game savings hit the interweb tubes this weekend. Also, the NFL gets going on Sunday (if you like that sort of thing).

• GoGamer.com has a number of PC games on sale from now until Tuesday at 3 am ET. That includes the recent racing game Fuel for just $19.90, the upcoming PC port of Red Faction: Guerrilla for $29.90 and Fallout 3 also for $29.90.
• GoG.com's weekend sales deal has a two game bundle deal combining Postal and Postal 2 for the price of $11.98, a 25 percent discount from its normal price. That sale ends at 11:59 pm ET on Monday.
• Finally Direct2Drive has cut $5 off the price of Section 8 from now until Sunday. You have to put in the code 5OFFSECTION8 at checkout.

GoG.com has a couple of announcements to make before they head out for the weekend. The DRM-free game download service has announced that they will be adding the Postal games from Running With Scissors to their library. The first game, Postal: Classic and Uncut, is available now to download for $5.99 with other games in the series to be added in the future.

The other announcement is their rweekend bundle deal. This time you can get both Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader for just $11.98 until the end of the day on Monday. As usual if you own one game in the castle sim-RTS series but not the other you can get the other title for a 25 percent discount.

It's a game that many critics cannot stand yet it has become an underground hit and even inspired a crappy Uwe Boll movie. Now Running With Scissors has announced in its latest newsletter that their first person shooter Postal 2 will be placed on display in none other than the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Yep, it was funded by Alfred Nobel, the creator of dynamite and later the Nobel Prizes.

Running With Scissors reports that the game will be a part of the museum's "Freedom of Speech: How Free is Free?" exhibit that is scheduled to begin on Feb. 12 and run through Sept. 30. Postal 2 will be on display in a game censorship part of the exhibit (Apparently Postal 2 was actually put on trial for some offense in Sweden; the game "was acquitted a couple of years ago"). Meanwhile the developer is still working on the long awaited Postal 3. Perhaps that game will be shown in the Smithsonian.

[Via MTV Multiplayer]

The Uwe Boll directed adaptation of Running With Scissors'sPostal game franchise may have been kept from being released in most movie theaters last May but on August 26 everyone will be able to see the movie in either DVD or Blu-Ray format. The DVD Active web site has posted up the box cover for the release which reveals extras like commentaries, deleted scenes and more.

The release will also come with the full version of the Postal 2 game, the Unreal Engine 2 powered open world shooter that Running With Scissors released several years ago. Running With Scissors and Russian based Akella are currently working on Postal III which should be released in 2009.

We can say with the utmost certainty that hell has frozen over. Postal, the movie adaptation of the game of the same name, has won some awards. Actual awards, even. Instead of receiving or being nominated for a Golden Raspberry, Postal has been awarded Best of Festival at the Hoboken Film Festival. Furthermore, Uwe Boll, our favorite mutilator of gaming intellectual properties, has received the Best Director award. One could argue that this was because of Uwe Boll being a festival sponsor, but shhhh. Don't spoil the moment.

When asked about the award, producer Vince Desi had this to say:

When the fans speak, we win. We know this from our experience in the game industry and now the film business just confirms it. The continued success of the POSTAL franchise in all its forms is proof that democracy works; you cannot stop what's in the hearts of the people. Freedom will always triumph over tyranny.

Because everyone knows that the panning of Uwe Boll's films and Vince Desi's games by critics is tyranny.

It's the Memorial Day weekend here in the US and while many of you may be going to go see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a brave few will be heading to a few movie theaters to see Postal, the latest game-to-movie adaptation from infamous director Uwe Boll. The Postal PC game series, which has generated its own controversies over the years, has continued to be successful for its developer Running With Scissors. Their mix of violence and dark humor have gotten politicians and others to attack the games (mostly without actually playing them of course). Still, there are a number of gamers and reviewers who appreciate what Running With Scissors are attempting to do with the Postal titles; namely the fact that they try to satire all aspects of pop culture and politics.

With the movie now in theaters, Big Download decided to contact Running with Scissors head Vince Desi to get his thoughts on the film, what the experience was like working with Uwe Boll and some hints on the next game in the series, Postal III..

First, there's no doubt that the journey to have Postal transformed into a movie has been an interesting one. Can you give us a little history on how you guys pitched a movie version and how Uwe Boll game on board?

After Postal 2 was released I was contacted by several folks in Hollywood, I had a few meetings but decided against it. Then about 2 years ago I got a call from someone representing Uwe, I didn't know who he was, so I flew up to Vancouver to meet him. We got along, and like they say in Hollywood the rest is history.

Breathe a sigh of relief PC multiplayer fans because your moment have truth has come to pass. The standalone multiplayer version of Postal 2: Share the Pain has been released for free. Downloading the 597mb package nets you 14 maps, 25 playable characters, 11 weapons and 4 game types.

What possessed developer Running With Scissors to release the multiplayer freeware? Could it be the Boll-directed Postal film that is lighting up a record-setting 18 theaters? Or is it to celebrate the franchise's 10th Anniversary of mediocrity? Either way, all your urination-joke fueled fun is available now!

Download the Postal 2: Share the Pain from Big Download today!

A few days ago it looked like the planned movie version of Postal was going to appear in just four theaters for its May 23 opening date. Now a new press release from Postal developers Running With Scissors seems to indicate a slightly bigger opening for the Uwe Boll-directed dark satire. According to the official Postal web site the movie will actually be in 14 theaters on May 23.

The web site indicates theaters like the famous Alamo Draft House in Austin, Texas along with locations in Denver, Santa Monica, Chicago and others will screen the movie on the opening weekend. A San Fransisco theater will screen the movie on May 30. Of course if you aren't located near one of the listed theaters don't fret; the movie is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on August 26.

UMVD Visual Entertainment has decided to enter the high-definition arena with the Blu-Ray release of Postal, due out August 26 of this year. Postal is set to debut in theaters later this month, and will be showing on only four screens, a significant reduction from its original count of 1,500.

Given that the home release has been announced before the film's theatrical debut, one might suggest that prospective viewers hold out for a rental. The film, directed by maligned video-game-to-movie director Uwe Boll, follows in the vein of the PC games by favoring pure shock value over anything resembling a real storyline.

The Blu-Ray release of Postal is estimated to be priced at $34.98, which is most likely 34 dollars more than should be spent.

Uwe Boll's movie adaptation of Running With Scissors' Postal action game series seemed to be a marriage made in heaven. Both Boll and Running With Scissors have generated tons of controversy with their previous products and both have been slammed by most mainstream critics. However the clips we have seen of the Postal movie definitely have a dark humor appeal.

After a number of delays, the Postal movie finally got scheduled for a wide release in theaters on May 23 via the distributor Freestyle Releasing. But according to a press release from Boll's production company and sent to Kotaku, the major theater chains in the US are "boycotting Postal because of its political content." Thus a planned opening of the movie on 1500 screens has been reduced to just four theaters. Of course, another reason for theater owners not wanting Postal may be Boll's awful box office record; his last theatrical movie (In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale) made just under $3 million in its opening weekend last January.