Running With Scissors Cancels Postal: Bullet Paradise After AI Usage Sparks Community Backlash

A newly revealed Steam game just got canceled because of its AI usage

Almost as quickly as it was announced, a new Postal game has been canceled. Earlier this week, developer Running With Scissors announced a Vampire Survivors-inspired spin-off of its infamous PC game series, but the announcement was met with anger by Postal's avid fans when the reveal trailer

New Postal game announced and immediately canceled amid 'false AI accusations'

Developer Running With Scissors announced a new entry in its provocative first-person shooter franchise Postal on Wednesday, only to cancel it by Thursday. Now, the studio behind that game says it's shutting down amid backlash and threats against its developers. Running With Scissors revealed

New 'Postal' Game Canceled One Day After Reveal, Following Generative AI Allegations - Decrypt

Running With Scissors said it's shifting focus to other 2026 projects after reviewing the incident. Running With Scissors, publisher of the controversial shooter game franchise Postal, said this week that it had canceled a newly revealed series entry one day after announcing it, responding to

Remember Postal? In the last 48 hours publisher Running With Scissors has announced a new game, insulted fans, apologized, canceled the game, the studio making it denied wrongdoing, shut down anyway, and we can thank the magic of AI for all of it

The Postal series is essentially the videogame equivalent of Uwe Boll's filmography*. They're notoriously awful -- the last one we reviewed was Postal 3 in 2012, which earned a dismal 21% -- and they keep happening for some reason. A new addition to the lineup was announced on December 3, in fact,

"Has caused extreme damage to our brand and our company reputation" - Running with Scissors cancels Postal: Bullet Paradise over AI-generated assets... two days after reveal

After receiving pushback for its flagrant use of generative AI, Postal: Bullet Paradise has been cancelled... just two days after being revealed. In a statement from publisher Running With Scissors, the company said the reception to Postal: Bullet Paradise - a co-op "bullet-heaven" first-person

Postal Game Announced And Canned Over AI Slop In Same Week

Is this a new record for announcing and then killing a gaming project? The Postal games have always been what you might call "slop." Running With Scissors' series of puerile, drearily unfunny action games have somehow regularly been released since 1997, relying entirely on their hamfisted "shock

Publisher kills a game over gen AI accusations, leading its developer to shut down while insisting it was "mistakenly accused": "Everything we built over the past 6 years, was canceled in just a few days"

"We'd like of course to apologize to anyone who felt insulted in the heat of the moment and we thank you for raising concerns at the time" Postal IP owner Running With Sicssors has cancelled a project called Postal: Bullet Paradise two days after it was announced due to negative fan feedback over

Developer of New Postal Game Shuts Down Studio After Game Was Announced, Then Canceled Over Gen AI Allegations - IGN

The studio behind the Postal franchise just announced that it will be publishing a brand new Postal game, to be developed by Goonswarm Games. Unfortunately, it even more recently announced it would be cancelling said game, due to accusations that Goonswarm had used generative AI in its development.

Running With Scissors Reveals, Then Cancels, New Postal Game After Accusations of Generative AI Use

The studio behind the Postal franchise just announced that it will be publishing a brand new Postal game, to be developed by Goonswarm Games. Unfortunately, it even more recently announced it would be cancelling said game, due to accusations that Goonswarm had used generative AI in its