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 All bow down and worship Wade
Check out the GoPOSTAL.com site on a regular basis from now on - it's in process of being totally revised, with the latest news, views and reviews, including our brand new Linux and MAC releases. Expect it to get better every time you check in, with lots of new content and a brand new webmaster!
Apocalypse Weekend on track for May release, we swear!
Obviously, the BIG news this time out is the imminent (and long-awaited) release of the latest P2 add-on - Apocalypse Weekend! Once again, AW was delayed due to to the ESRB requiring further clarification on dominatrix websites, half naked images of Postal Babes, the graphical depiction of seminal fluid and "all bow down and suckle my mutated crotch teats." But you've got our word that the wait will be worth it in swinging spades!
 
Swedish "justice"... with extreme prejudice?
Just so you don't think America has cornered the market on government morons, check this out... in Sweden there's an exciting new trial coming up, the Swedish distributor of Postal 2 is actually going to be tried for "distribution of a criminal depiction of violence"! Which I guess could also be applied to things like, oh, EVERY ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT EVER MADE. -or The Bible.
There hasn't been any coverage in english yet, but our trusty Swedish away-team tell us:
Last fall a lobby group produced an inflammatory documentary called ”Deadly Games” which aired on TV4. The documentary linked killings in Little Rock and Erfurt with computer games. Clips were shown from a number of games, and the Postal 2 clips in particular got the Swedish Family Minister upset.
The Family Minister urged the Chancellor of Justice to investigate the game, and they did, resulting in charges being brought against the Swedish distributor of Postal 2.
The case is being tried in a court in Helsingborg later this year, the date has not yet set.
Postal 2 designer rants!
In the wake of this latest siege of censorship, P2 designer Steve Wik issued the following statement with regard to his feelings and intentions in creating the game:
"The purpose behind POSTAL 2's design was to hold a dirty mirror up to America's embarrassing cultural flaws, ignorances and prejudices and create a dark, cynically humorous caricature of it all. I guess in Sweden I'm not allowed to publicly voice those sentiments.
The idea of government bodies attempting to frighten businessmen into bland conservativism by retroactively making into a criminal act the sale of entertainment products they've personally deigned to be inappropriate for human consumption frankly turns my stomach.
It actually makes me feel better about living in America. Here, at least for now, rational thought continues to prevent these pop-culture vultures from turning their ignorant, paranoid, knee-jerk pseudo-philosophies into laws. Which is more evil? A videogame where you have the FREE WILL to choose to be violent or not be violent? Or legislated censorship of creative media based on the personal taste of humorless drones who have not played or attempted to understand the product, fueled by heavily biased and hyperbolic "documentaries" that purport unsubstantiated "connections" to real world violence as "fact?"
Are we REALLY pretending that violence never existed before POSTAL 2 and that removing it (and the people who dare to sell it) from the planet would somehow eliminate violence from the human race? See, I can do hyperbole too. I'm just not enough of an asshole to think freedom-eroding laws should be made out of it. In my opinion, POSTAL 2 is the most "politically correct" game ever made. POSTAL 2 does not REQUIRE the player to kill, does not single out one group, species, race or religion to be "the bad guy" and it actually, for once, makes the player assume full responsibility for their own actions.
All we are guilty of is making a reactive, simulated environment that allows the player to do what he or she wants, good or evil. In POSTAL 2, nobody gives you a gold medal for being good or a pat on the back for being bad. POSTAL 2 is a blank slate that the player colors with his actions. Unlike every game ever made, POSTAL 2 DOES NOT EVER try to tell you that "some" killing is "okay" so long as: A: the targets are ugly looking; B: not from around here, or C: are wearing certain insignia on their uniforms. In POSTAL 2, the "reward" for violence is incurring the wrath of vigilante mobs, attack dogs and heavily armed police. That doesn't sound like much of an incentive program for violence to me. People should be applauding this game for it's honesty. But hey, I only designed the fucking thing."
Your tax dollars at work. Again.
In yet another case of small-time politicos attempting to make election hay out of an imaginary issue, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has officially given her blessing to a crackpot bill aimed at criminalizing the act of selling or renting certain videogames to minors.
The bill, introduced by Senator Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) - remember that name - is part of a legislative epidemic of similar bills. The Governor (and women told us how much better things would be once they started getting elected - most of them, alas, have proven just as craven as their male counterparts), of course, is taking a think-of-the-children approach, attacking those who, she claims, "would poison the minds of our young people."
The main difference between this bill and the legislation being offered by California pea-brain Leland Yee in that it will not create a Michigan-based rating system but will subscribe to the ESRB ratings, persecuting any retailer who sells or rents an "M" rated game of any kind to someone under 17.
Scandinavian moron ruins it for us all
Apparently, some (probably) cock-smoking, opium addicted Scandinavian jerkwad didn't like waking up to find a woman going down on him! Here this woman is leading the way, blazing a heroic trail for all women to follow and what thanks does she get for her selfless act? They sentenced her to 9 months and 6K in fines! What a terrible "blow" this has struck against the institution of surprise blowjobs! This guy should be kicked right in the groin. Thanks alot asshole.
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RWS takes the Washington Post
Make sure you check out the Washington Post story mentioned on the site's front page. A certified ace reporter spent a day and a half with the RWS crew - and she lived to tell about it. In fact, she didn't even rat out our more outrageous behavior! Read all about it!
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