Running With Scissors (company)

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 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, and in April 2003, Running With Scissors released a sequel, Postal 2, featuring ex-child actor Gary Coleman. The game featured many jokes at Senator Lieberman's expense and also featured enemies modeled upon Osama bin Laden.

In December 2011, Postal III, a sequel to Postal 2, was developed in cooperation with TrashMasters Studios and released by Akella. Upon release, the game 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, which 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. The PlayStation 4 version was later cancelled.

Games developed

 * Postal (1997)
 * Postal: Special Delivery (1998)
 * Flesh and Wire (cancelled in 1999)
 * Super Postal (2000)
 * Postal 2 (2003)
 * Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend (2005)
 * Postal III (2011)
 * Postal 2: Paradise Lost (2015)
 * Postal Redux (2016)