Dawson: Postal implicated

Aside from Super Columbine Massacre, another game Kimveer Gill claims to have played is Postal 2. "Postal Dude [the character] kicks ass," the National Post snips from Gill's blog. "If anyone out there hasn't played Postal... I suggest you do. And do it right now." Both Postals encourage players to go on a rampage through a small town. The founder of Running With Scissors, Vince Desiderio, defends his company's work: "People need to learn that there's a difference between entertainment and acting out in reality. I know that people will say that, 'Violent games caused this,' but millions of people play these games around the world and the good news is that only rarely do one or two people go berserk like this." Other games the Post attaches to Gill are Blood, Manhunt, and the Grand Theft Auto series. The paper further observes that Gill's "life is like a video game" quote was originally from Devin Moore, an 18-year-old accused of imitating Vice City when he shot two policemen and a dispatcher.

by MacNN Staff