Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation

Postal: Bullet Paradise sent straight to hell

Postal developers Running With Scissors person revealed... and present cancelled Postal: Bullet Paradise, a spin-off shooter created by Goonswarm Studios. It seems Bullet Paradise whitethorn person featured immoderate AI-generated material, which has prompted an evidently monolithic backlash among the Postal faithful successful the literal 2 full days since the project's announcement. Gosh.

"After revealing POSTAL: Bullet Paradise, a rubric Running With Scissors was readying connected publishing but not developing, we've been overwhelmed with antagonistic responses from our acrophobic POSTAL Community," reads a connection from Running With Scissors laminitis Vince Desi, emailed to RPS this afternoon. "The beardown feedback from them is that elements of the crippled are precise apt AI-generated and frankincense has caused utmost harm to our marque and our institution reputation.

"We've ever been, and volition ever be, transparent with our community," Desi continues. "Our spot successful the improvement squad is broken; therefore, we've killed the project. We person a batch of bully things coming (some you cognize and immoderate you don't).

"Since forming Running With Scissors successful 1996, we've ever said that our fans are portion of the team," it concludes. "Our precedence is to ever bash close by the millions who enactment the POSTAL franchise. We are grateful for the accidental to marque the games we privation to play, and volition proceed to absorption connected our caller projects and updates coming successful 2026 and beyond. We can't hold to stock more!"

Postal: Bullet Paradise was erstwhile "a timeline-hopping, dystopian slug eden first-person shooter with POSTAL's signature darkly humorous personality". The task is "no longer available" connected Steam, though it inactive has a leafage arsenic of writing.

Desi's connection doesn't notation which elements of the crippled whitethorn person been AI-generated, oregon whether they've taken immoderate steps to corroborate this with Goonswarm. I've mailed the devs to inquire for comment. Their erstwhile games see Sin Slayers: Meat & Greed and SCP: Control Error.

Assuming this is a lawsuit of generative AI, it would beryllium the archetypal clip to my cognition that a steadfast has canned a full crippled pursuing blowback connected the taxable from players. Publishers person apologised for games having generated AI elements - spot 11 Bit's effect to contention implicit The Alters - and taken steps to regenerate them - spot Ubisoft and Anno 117: Pax Romana - but yoinking the full happening from improvement is rather the escalation. I'll update if we larn more.