As soon as news flared up about a violent game banned, we knew this was bound to happen. For those uninformed, Running With Scissors' Postal (expanded by Special Delivery) was probably the granddaddy of extreme violent game controversies, and its equally violent successor, Postal II (expanded by Share the Pain and Apocalypse Weekend), was similarly banned in multiple regions despite a still growing fanbase on the PS2 and PC.

The video game industry is too easy for [the government] to complain about, and with a presidential election next year I can only imagine the pseudo talking points we'll be hearing. It could be the only issue the Democrats and Republicans agree upon. How old were you when you lit your first cigarette? Drank your first beer? I think rating systems work in general as they provide consumers with so-called valuable information, [but] they should never be seen as or expected to be a policing policy.