Industry Video game industry Founded 1996 | Products Video games Type of business Private | |
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Key people Vince Desi (President, CEO)
Mike Jaret
Jon Merchant
Bob Richardson
Rick Foltz Website runningwithscissors.com Headquarters Tucson, Arizona, United States Video games Postal 2, Postal, Postal III, Postal Redux, Postal: Special Delivery Profiles | ||
RWS, Inc., doing business as Running With Scissors, is an American video game developer based in Tucson, Arizona. The company is best known for their Postal series, which was publicly decried by Senator Joe Lieberman and other critics due to its extreme violence.
Running With Scissors was founded in 1996 as a new company devoted to developing extreme and mature entertainment products. Some of the founding members were previously employed at Riedel Software Productions, which focused on developing children's games.
Their first game, Postal, was released in 1997. In April 2003, Running With Scissors released a sequel, Postal 2, featuring ex-child actor Gary Coleman. The game featured many jokes at Senator Joe Lieberman's expense and also featured enemies modeled upon Osama bin Laden.
In December 2011, Postal III, a sequel to Postal 2 was released by Akella. The game, which was developed by TrashMasters Studios and co-produced by Running With Scissors, faced mostly negative reviews from the press, and was distanced from by Running With Scissors.
In November 2012, Postal 2 was released on the Steam client.
In June 2014, Running With Scissors announced an add-on for Postal 2 entitled Paradise Lost, was released on April 17, 2015.
In February 2016, Running With Scissors announced that the original Postal game was being remade under the name of Postal Redux. It uses the Unreal Engine 4 and was released on May 20, 2016 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, and is scheduled for PlayStation 4 at a later date.