Running With Scissors has come a long way since the launch of this newsletter several years ago.  We’ve produced the entire POSTAL 2 series, created the Postal Babes, joined in the making of a motion picture based on the franchise and just recently announced the coming of POSTAL III for both computer and Xbox 360 gamers.

Within the past weeks alone, we’ve announced the publication of the ultimate stocking stuffers: the Postal Fudge Pack as well as the CD “Music to Go Postal By” featuring an international cast of composers and contributors.

And yet, with all this progress, the RWS Newsletter was still being edited by, well, a Gimp.  Now don’t misunderstand me, we’re quite fond of our Golden Gimp.  I mean, he lives in that pit underneath that trapdoor because he LIKES it there, honest!  That’s just the kind of Gimp he is.

But as a company that is growing constantly and expanding its franchise the world over, we felt it was becoming increasingly unseemly for a guy in a gold leather jumpsuit and zipper-faced fetish mask to serve as our ambassador to the world at large.

So, as we make ready our final newsletter for the year 2006, I would like to step out of the shadows and introduce myself as the official editor of this publication.  Not only have I been the Power Behind the Gimp from the start, I’ve been in the game business since 1978 when Arnie Katz and I started the first magazine column devoted to video and computer game reviews (“Arcade Alley” in VIDEO magazine) and, three years later, launched the world’s first magazine devoted exclusively to this new form of entertainment, ELECTRONIC GAMES.

Let me assure you, the Gimp himself fully supports this changeover.  Why, as he screamed pitifully when we stuffed him back in his pit and nailed the trapdoor shut, I could swear I almost heard him shriek: “Write this one for me, Kunkel!  Tell them!  Tell them all to write this one for the Gimpster!”

And that’s exactly what we intend to do.

Happy holidays, Postal Nation!

--Bill Kunkel