{"id":76978,"date":"2015-06-09T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=76978"},"modified":"2015-06-09T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T08:43:56","slug":"uwe-bolls-kickstarter-meltdown-will-make-you-smile-and-cringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/76978-uwe-bolls-kickstarter-meltdown-will-make-you-smile-and-cringe","title":{"rendered":"Uwe Boll&#8217;s Kickstarter meltdown will make you smile and cringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uwe Boll, the director of such classics as <em>Far Cry<\/em> (stahp), <em>Bloodrayne<\/em> (staahhp) and <em>Alone in the Dark<\/em> (staaahhhp, please) has hit a bit of roadblock.<\/p>\n<p>The roadblock, by the way, is everyone hating everything he&#8217;s ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>The movie-maker with a love for terrible video game adaptations has been rejected by the community after trying to raise money via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a> for a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1544635303\/postal-2\/backers\" target=\"_blank\">Postal 2<\/a><\/em> movie and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2063316815\/rampage-3-no-mercy\" target=\"_blank\">Rampage 3<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Rampage 3<\/em> campaign only pulled in less than half of the expected fund injection, and this hasn&#8217;t sat well with Boll.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VT1J65KHX8E?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone ever take him seriously?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qQJwEAqzFs4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because we sure don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Vice City into GTA V and GTA V into real life\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/76938-vice-city-into-gta-v-and-gta-v-into-real-life.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vice City into GTA V and GTA V into real life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Fans reveal Fallout 4 map and locations\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/76912-fans-reveal-fallout-4-map-and-locations.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fans reveal Fallout 4 map and locations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Games you can play this week \u2013 magical lands and bank heists\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/76906-games-you-can-play-this-week-magical-lands-and-bank-heists.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you can play this week \u2013 magical lands and bank heists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numpty has risen once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":76980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14318,2366,279,6402,5805],"class_list":["post-76978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-director","tag-kickstarter","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-uwe-boll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76984,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978\/revisions\/76984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}