Running With Scissors (company)

Running With Scissors, Inc
Industry Video game industry
Founded 1996
Headquarters Tucson, Arizona, United States
Key people
  • Vincent J. Desiderio Jr.
  • Mike Jaret-Schachter
  • Jon Merchant
  • Rick Foltz
  • Bob Richardson
Products Video games
Website RunningWithScissors.com
Vincent J. Desiderio Jr., President of Running With Scissors
Mike Jaret-Schachter, VP of Business Development of Running With Scissors

Running With Scissors, Inc. (RWS) is an American video game developer based in Arizona. Their best-known title, Postal, 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 another company run by Vincent J. Desiderio Jr., RSP (Riedel Software Productions), which was focused on developing children’s games.

In April 2003, Running With Scissors released a sequel, Postal 2,[1] featuring ex-child actor Gary Coleman.[2] 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[3] and was distanced from by RWS.[4]

In November 2012, Postal 2 was released on the website Steam.

In June 2014, Running With Scissors announced an add-on for Postal 2 entitled Paradise Lost.[5] It 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 is set to be released in Spring 2016 for PC, Mac, SteamOS, and PS4.

Games

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Special Edition Marks Postal's Tenth Anniversary". Wired. 2007-11-29. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  2. ↑ Olafson, Peter (March 31, 2004). "Learning to love mass murder". Salon.
  3. ↑ "Postal III". Metacritic.
  4. ↑ Q&A INTERVIEW: RUNNING WITH SCISSORS INC. CEO VINCE DESI.
  5. ↑ Brown, Fraser (2014). "Postal 2 is getting another expansion, 12 years after it launched". PC Magazine.

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