Running With Scissors, Inc.

Running With Scissors, Inc. (RWS for short) is an American computer game developing company based in Arizona. Their best-known title, Postal, was publicly decried by Senator Joe Lieberman and other critics due to its extreme violence.

Company history

? December 2004, POSTAL 2: STP released for Mac

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? November 2004, POSTAL 2 is officially banned in New Zealand

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? October 2004, Akella releases Apocalypse Weekend in Russia

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? September 2004, Friendware licenses POSTAL 2 for Spain

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? July 2004, Micro Mouse releases Apocalypse Weekend in Japan

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? May 2004, Axel Springer licenses POSTAL 2: STP for Poland

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? May 2004, Bowl Software licenses POSTAL 2 for Brazil

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? April 2004, Hell-Tech licenses POSTAL 2: STP for Europe

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? April 2004, POSTAL 2 licensed to appear in independant film "A Lousy Ten Grand"

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? March 2004, Linux Game Publishing licenses POSTAL 2 for Linux

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? February 2004, ComGame licenses POSTAL 2 for Hungary

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? January 2004, POSTAL 2: Share The Pain ships to major retailers in North America, Japan and Russia

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? November 2003, RWS announces they will self publish POSTAL 2: Share The Pain in North America and Europe

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? October 2003, Akella licenses POSTAL 2:Share The Pain for Russia

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? October 2003, Micro Mouse licenses POSTAL 2:Share The Pain for Japan

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? September. 2003, the Postal Babes make their 1st European appearance in London at ECTS

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? September 2003, RWS announces the multiplayer version of POSTAL 2, Share The Pain

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? June 2003, POSTAL 2 appears in Black Eyed Peas #1 hit music video "Where is the love?"

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? May 2003, the Postal Babes make their premiere appearance in LA at E3

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? April 2003, POSTAL 2 is released worldwide

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? March 2003, Cognition Games licenses the Mac version of POSTAL PLUS

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? January 2003, Whiptail Interactive licenses POSTAL 2 for Europe and Latin America

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? November 2002, Akella licenses POSTAL 2 for Russia

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? October 2002, Whiptail Interactive licenses POSTAL 2 for North America

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? September 2002, PLAY licenses POSTAL PLUS for Poland

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? September 2002, Micro Mouse licenses POSTAL 2 for Japan

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? May 2002, RWS announces Gary Coleman as Guest Star in POSTAL 2

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? February 2002, RWS announces license agreement to use Epic's UNREAL Engine to develop POSTAL 2

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? February 2002, RWS announces the development of POSTAL 2

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? December 2001, Softwrap of the UK licenses the CD Magazine rights to POSTAL PLUS

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? October 2001, Loki licenses the Linux version of POSTAL PLUS

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? September 2001, Stream Theory licenses the online rental rights to POSTAL

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? December 2000, Softek of Canada licenses retail distribution rights to POSTAL PLUS for Canada

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? November 2000, Shinsung of Korea licenses the exclusive rights to POSTAL for Korea

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? June 2000, Micro Mouse of Japan licenses an all-Japanese version of POSTAL

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? May 2000, RWS releases POSTAL PLUS combo CD

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? April 1999, Micro Mouse of Japan licenses the exclusive rights to POSTAL for Japan

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? August 1998, POSTAL: SPECIAL DELIVERY add-on pack is released

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? January 1998, Take-2 Interactive licenses the exclusive rights to POSTAL for Europe

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? November 1997, POSTAL is officially released for PC and Mac

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? August 1997, Player Media licenses the Official POSTAL Game book rights

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? June 1997, POSTAL dominates E3 Game convention in Atlanta

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? April 1997, Ripcord Games licenses worldwide distribution rights to POSTAL for PC and Mac

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? March 1997, Running With Scissors announces new title POSTAL

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? January 1996, Development of POSTAL begins

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